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A woman who brings in $25 million a year selling clothes on eBay has revealed her tips for becoming a top seller in celebration of the e-commerce website's 20th anniversary on Thursday. Linda Lightman, a 53-year-old eBay seller living in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has turned her luxury consignment store, Linda's Stuff , into a multi-million dollar business over the course of 15 years. Continue...

Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the biggest factor in his decision on whether to run for president is whether he and his family “have the emotional energy to run.” “The honest-to-God answer is, I just don’t know,” he said.  USAtoday  reports. Continue..

                         Imo State government’s acknowledgment of the receipt of Federal Government’s bailout fund, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, has again challenged Governor Rochas Okorocha to publish the state’s financial statement. Archbishop Obinna, who repeated the demand while fielding questions from journalists in Owerri, wondered why it was taking the governor such a long time to publish the state account for public consumption.

Hillary Clinton plans to launch a new initiative this weekend as she seeks to weave women’s issues into every facet of her campaign instead of using them in a separate silo as she did in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid. On Saturday, the Democratic front-runner will launch "Women for Hillary’’ with a two-week effort to enlist the support of female voters that will include house parties, organizing events and trips by the candidate and her surrogates to early voting states, campaign officials told USA TODAY  reports. Continue...

Several people were feared dead and others injured when a six storey plaza in the heart of the popular Balogun market in Lagos was gutted by fire yesterday. The plaza is surrounded by several important businesses which included the Union Bank, Diamond Bank and the United Bank for Africa (UBA). It was also observed that the plaza which was being used as a wholesale and retail outlet for shoes and bags is directly beside and attached to Union Bank building.

Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu • Rules out plan to sell refineries • PPMC to be unbundled By Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt and Carl Chineme Okafor in Abuja 
 The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has said Nigeria has saved over $287 million from the turnaround maintenance (TAM) of the Port Harcourt Refinery, Eleme. Kachikwu made the disclosure shortly after an inspection tour of the refinery ON Wednesday  Thisdaylive  reports. Continue...

                                      Nollywood actress, Anita Joseph is not in a good mood right now as she’s currently mourning the death of her father, Joseph C. Nwabufo who passed on yesterday, Thursday September 3rd 2015. The actress who is second to the last born of her late father was on location when the incident happened. The late Joseph Nwabufo passed away, almost without any sign of illness at Enugu after returning home, having spent some 3-4 months with his beloved Anita in Lagos.

Following the recommendation of the committee instituted by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to review recent disciplinary cases in the army, especially of soldiers in the defunct Operation Zaman Lafiya, the Nigerian Army has pardoned and reinstated a total of 3,032 soldiers out of the 5,000 that appeared before the committee. The recall of the soldiers came just as the army authorities vowed that the battle against insurgency will be concluded in three months as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Addressing the media in Abuja, yesterday, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said: “The reinstated soldiers are those whose offences bothered on cases of discipline, regimentation and justice. “The soldiers have shown their total readiness to be re-launched into the theatre of combat insurgency and have now commenced a re-training exercise at the Nigerian Army Training Centre, Kontagora, Niger State. “It must, however, be made clear that not all ...

               The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), announced Nollywood actress and director, Stephanie Linus as the Ambassador for the their latest campaign. Her formal presentation as an ambassador took place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The campaign called the Stop-VAWIE (Violence Against Women In Elections) is a project that seeks to create public awareness on various forms of violence against women before, during and after elections in Nigeria, which often militates their active participation in the electoral process. This campaign comes ahead of the Kogi and Bayelsa gubernatorial elections, Stephanie as an ambassador will create awareness around the project and elicit the support of different segments of society to report cases of violence against women and bring an end to this menace.Stephanie, who is very passionate about the cause and happy to be an ambass...