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Day: May 6, 2019

Access Bank, AFF release programme of event on 2019 summit

Ten days from today and precisely May 16, 2019, the Africa FinTech Foundry (AFF) innovators summit, will create an ecosystem in Lagos where digital services inventors will interface with industry captains to design a roadmap for the nation’s march to…

Investors can shock Dangote if they buy, relocate closed refineries from Europe

Energy analysts have started assessing the possible business imports of the projected closures of refineries in Europe at a time local refining capacity has remained inadequate. Some industry experts who barred their minds with our correspondents in Lagos argued that…

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How Mastercard failed Chams contract to deliver National ID card—Aladekomo

For many Nigerians that had been asking questions after struggling to register for their national identity Card, the reason why there had been no clear explanation by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on when they will get their real…

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ICT

Why CWG Plc won Infosys’s ‘Business Alliance Partner of the year’ for MEA

Fresh details have emerged on why pioneer African Technology Company, CWG Plc was named ‘Business Alliance Partner’ of the year for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) by Global Core Banking Solution provider, Infosys. Announcing the hnours recently at the…

Well-to-do Nigerians sack commoners on Abj/Kad train as kidnappers rule highway

Barely two weeks after the Acting Inspector General of Nigeria Police, Mohammed Adamu announced that safety has returned on Abuja-Kaduna highway over the jumping cases of armed robbery and mass kidnapping, happenstances have proved him wrong. Otherwise, not up to…

NADDC boss defers with LCCI DG on national auto policy

At a time the Director-General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr Jelani Aliyu is calling on the Federal Government to make a legislation that would turn the prevailing auto policy into law, the Director General, Lagos…

Estimated billing: Discos don’t lose money when supply deteriorates—Findings

A report released by Business Hilights Intelligence Unit (BHIU), an independent research arm of Media Hilights Integrated Company Limited, publishers of Business Hilights, has revealed that contrary to insinuations that whenever electricity supplies drop, Distribution Companies (Discos) are at loss,…

Two completed modular refineries for inauguration this week in N’Delta

Two out of the 43 modular refineries licensees have completed construction activities in Niger Delta and ready for inauguration before the end of this week. A credible source in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, confided in Business Hilights Abuja Bureau…

Nigeria-Slovakian partnership yields energy bulb factory in C’River

Even though the latest private member bill sent in to the National Assembly by Bayelsa State Senator, Mr Ben Murray-Bruce on the adoption of electric cars over petrol vehicles suffered instant rejection; strong indication has emerged on the possibility of…

9 days after our story, VP resumes TraderMoni sharing tour in Anambra

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo last week, resumed his technically suspended nationwide tour of disbursing TraderMoni and MarketMoni, a soft loan scheme targeted at traders and SMEs in select open markets in Nigeria. Business Hilights had on April 24, 2019, published…