Last week I installed an IBM Connections Limited Entitlement environment for IBM Verse and recognized the problem of the Notification center after disabling the Homepage app.
You only will receive “Loading…” on activating the Notification Center.
I had a small talk with a great friend from IBM ( thanks to Wickerl ) and he told me, that he has opened a PMR at IBM regarding this problem.
I will update this post, if a solution is available