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Airtel Partners AXA Mansard to Unveil Mobile Health Insurance via USSD

Customers Can Now dial *987*7# to Enroll for Health Insurance Scheme Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria and leading service provider in the healthcare sector, AXA Mansard, have announced a strategic partnership to deepen access, participation and enrolment in health…

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Champions drill pioneer set of emerging champions to fruition at Ausso Academy

Ausso Leadership Academy (ALA), Nigeria’s premiere ‘Mentorship Academy For Entrepreneurs By Entrepreneurs’ in Lagos has graduated first set of entrepreneurial Champions in Lekki Main Campus of the prestigious institution, Lagos. Christened ‘Premier Business Gladiators’, the graduands passed through three intensive…

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Yudala lists conditions for parents to give their kids tech device

Emerging indigenous leaders in technology research and development, Yudala, Nigeria’s fastest growing e-commerce company, has come up with five critical safety issues to be considered by parents and guardians before they will mull the idea of giving their wards an…

Recovery signs emerge as Nigeria returns to Africa’s top oil producer

The reign of Angola as the leading oil producer in Africa has finally come to an end as hostilities reduces to barest minimum in the Niger Delta. At the height of the vandalism and kidnapping of oil workers in producing…

Why Nigerians, Eritreans topped list of ‘risky’ sea voyagers to Europe – UNHCR

Leading social commentator and Lagos based lawyer, Dr. Moses Edun has given insights on why Nigeria and war-torn Eritrea topped the list of African migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. In a telephone interview with…

Customs’ 100% examination, N9.1mn daily demurrage amount to official fraud–Importers

Nigerian importers and clearing agents have vowed to challenge the new policy of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) seeking 100 per cent examination of containers and N9.1mn daily demurrage in case a container stays longer grace period of four days….

How Trump’ll outsmart China in Nigeria very soon

The stage for the battle for the heart of Nigeria which China had begun ahead of US President Donald Trump’s election seems to be getting hotter by the day. This is coming from the recent strategic presidential phone call by…

Inflation rate at 18.72% smacks FG’s 11 reasons to believe recovery from recession

Less than three days after the federal government rolled out what it described as 11 reasons to show that recession is fading away, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released on Wednesday in…

Heritage bank, others still withholding MDAs fund meant for TSA

More than one year after, the federal government has once again decried the resistance of some money deposit banks (MDBs) in effecting complete compliance to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) regime by remitting all funds belonging to MDAs. Otherwise, the…

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NITDA working with relevant agencies to inject ICT into schools curricula

As part of renewed efforts to grow Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Nigerian school curricula, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has commenced consultations with the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)…