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Month: May 2017

Stop using here as your dumping, OBJ warns Indian industrialists in Nigeria

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned industrialists of Indian extraction doing business in Nigeria to stop using Nigeria as a dumping ground for outdated technologies and products. In his remarks weekend at Abeokuta, the former two times leader of Nigeria…

Investors worried over FG’s switch from industrial clusters to satellite industrial centres

Policy inconsistency is still playing in the activities of the present government in driving reforms to grow the economy. Before now, the focus of the government which was never implemented for one day was establishing industrial clusters across the six…

What Nigeria’ll lose if TB Joshua yields to Israeli calls to relocate to Galilee in Israel

There are fears that Nigerians and Nigerian government may be in for serious shocks should the founder and Senior Pastor of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T B Joshua finally heeds to growing calls and pressure from the…

992 out of 994 firms that paid taxes above N10m in 2015 were in Lagos—PwC chief

More facts have emerged on why the Lagos State Government is not relenting in asking the federal government to by law, grant it a ‘Special Status’ considering the volume of revenues raked in annually by the apex government and for…

Structure of Nigeria’s federation serious setback for economic development—-Atiku

More Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and economic pundits have continued to raise issues on the impending danger of destabilization if the structure of the Nigerian federation and by extension is not immediately reformed. The latest version of the appeals for…

Ecobank steps up digital strategy, merges 74 branches for innovative service delivery

Lead commercial banking group, Ecobank Nigeria Limited has reaffirmed its digital transformation agenda designed to boost customers’ satisfaction in latest digital platforms to do their daily banking activities. The target of the new deal according to the bank is to…

ICT

TECNO leads in media presence across Nigeria, others, Samsung rebounds on GS8–Report

A fresh report by Teksightedge Limited (TSE), a Lagos-based PR agency has revealed that first quarter 2017 has presented a make-good opportunity for Samsung Mobile to redeem lost glory with the unveiling of its much talked about Galaxy S8/S8+ The…

danbatta
ICT

NCC speeds up moves for early release of spectrums, gives 14 days to operators

Going by the time the new ultimatum on the immediate release of spectrums by operators which was last Thursday, today, Monday will make it just 10 days to possible sanctions by the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Otherwise, the…

Gov Ambode
ICT

Ambode deepens digital education, launches world class eLibrary in Lagos

After years of proposition and planning, the Lagos State Government weekend launched the State Digital Library and assured the preparedness of the administration to boost electronic access to education for all. Giving more details on why his government though it…