BBC don launch Pidgin service
E don tay wey we don dey hear di gist. E dey happen? E no go happen? If e happen, how e go be? Well, e don happen today. BBC Pidgin na part of di £289m plan wey BBC arrange…
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Africa Oil Week 2017 Announces Dynamic, Forward-Looking Programme
The 24th Africa Oil Week incorporates the 17th Africa Independents Forum (23 Oct), the 24th Africa Upstream (24-27 Oct), the 5th Africa Local Content Forum (23 Oct) and the 5th Young Professionals in Oil, Gas & Energy session (26 Oct)…
Ajimobi launches N120k Home Owners Charter, Electronic C of O
GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State at the weekend launched the Homeowners Charter policy designed to enable home owners in the state to regularize their land documents, saying that it is one of the measures being put in place the…
SAA squanders SA’s prized assets
ANALYSIS It may be selling the family silver to bail out the family drunk … again. But parting with its stake in Telkom may be the government’s only option to recapitalise SAA relatively quickly. And it wouldn’t affect the national…
Why People Living with Disability shun Lagos hospitals
The Joint Association of Persons Living with Disabilities (JONAPID) in Lagos has said that as long as disabled people continue to shun reproductive health services available at hospitals, the country can’t have significant improvements in its current health indicators. This…
Youtap launches mobile money QR code solution and apps for growth markets in Africa and Asia
New smartphone apps designed to simplify mobile money payments Youtap (www.Youtap.com), a global provider of contactless mobile payments and financial services software, has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia. Youtap’s…
A Disappointing Presidential Broadcast By Ebun-olu Adegboruwa
Reading through the presidential broadcast, however, one cannot but express a sense of utter disappointment. This is a president who virtually sneaked out of Nigeria, who breached his own self-declaration of transparency, by keeping Nigerians in the dark for over…
Civil Society Groups Call for Fairness in Poll Case
Civil society groups have called on the Supreme Court to ensure its verdict in the petition against the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta is fair. The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), the Africa Centre for Open Governance (Africog) and the…
Publisher and Top Editors Ousted at Los Angeles Times in Leadership Shake-Up
Tronc, the parent company of The Los Angeles Times, abruptly replaced the newspaper’s top leadership on Monday in a shake-up that stunned many in the newsroom. Ross Levinsohn, a longtime media executive who held a senior position at Fox’s digital…
Our broken feedback loop, by Cheta Nwanze
Let us begin this by acknowledging that our leaders are terrible. In doing that however, we should also acknowledge the fact that as followers, we are awful as well. We should also bring out the oftentimes overlooked fact that our…
