Expanding a service to a new country is never easy and always carries a degree of risk, but when it works the impact can be huge. That’s why we have decided to support Nigerian budget monitoring organisation, BudgIT, as they…
A financial technology bank, SunTrust, has won the most innovative bank of the year award for providing services entirely based on electronic channels, telephone, and the internet. It is the first commercial bank in Nigeria that runs minimal branches. According…
The Africa Energy Forum (AEF) is the global investment meeting for Africa’s power, energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors. Nineteen years in the running, AEF brings together senior-level representatives from governments, utilities, regulators, power developers, financial institutions, technology providers, consultants, law…
The Federal Government of Nigeria’ indebtedness to China stood at $3.22bn at the end of December 2016, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This is part of the total foreign debt…
The Nigeria Network of NGOs, NNNGO has announced the launch of Yemisi Ransome-Kuti (YRK) Leadership Award to commemorate its 25th Anniversary. At the launch of the maiden edition, Ms Ndifreke Andrew-Essien, was the very first YRK Award winner. Read more…
#MediaNavigation a digital ad agency and film/TV production base in South Africa has been nominated for WAMAS 2017 awards. The West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS) is a key and a major award that recognizes digital innovation by young Africans in…
WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved, the company said. “Earlier today, WhatsApp users in all parts of the world were unable to…
The global society facing on the fiercer conflicts has been searching for stopping all conflicts and finding peace. To cope with such issues, raising public awareness for peace education based on understanding diversity in ideology, religion, and ethnic identity was…
South African telecoms giant, MTN, has sacked 280 of its workers in its Nigeria arm, in a major job cut that is targeting at least, 25 per cent of its 1,8000 workers in the country, a company source confirmed yesterday…
eeding several calls by the Federal Government, Nigerians and experts in the financial institutions in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise to microfinance banks. This was disclosed in a circular…
