Ekeh, Zinox icon gives insights on why Akwa Ibom is an emerging miracle state
Pioneer investor in computers/allied products and Chairman of Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh has described Akwa Ibom as a miracle state, considering the current high quality of human and natural resources input mix in the state now. While pouring encomiums…
Just in: 2019 NNPC/CNL JV National Scholarship Awards entries begin
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), leading multinational and International Oil Company (IOC), Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has announced commencement of processes leading to award of national scholarship for Nigerian students. In a terse statement made available to…
How online access, digital penetration, viable payment solutions soar gaming
…As betting firms face official expulsion in Africa to save youths’ future The burgeoning African gaming market has been spearheaded by a number of countries in recent years with South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania widely deemed as the…
How BoG killed 23 financial institutions in Ghana—Opposition party
Facts have emerged from the Ghanaian Minority Caucus of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament, showing how the Bank of Ghana (BoG) deployed politics of elimination by substitution and travesty of justice to meltdown promising financial institutions. According…
African CEOs most worried about uncertainties in policy, security, skill gap—PwC
Though more revelations are still emerging from the 7th edition of PwC’s Africa Business Agenda 2019 report, launched at the biannual World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town. Latest in the report said “Ongoing economic, social and political uncertainty…
Banditry, kidnapping big industry for soldiers, policemen—Arrested bandits claim
Fresh boost has come the way of the revelations from the recent viral news of the freeing of arrested Adamawa billionaire kidnap star, Alhaji Wadume, by soldiers who killed three detective Policemen in the process of releasing him. This stemmed…
S’East Business leaders accuse Shippers’ Council of dumping Aba TTP for the north
The speed with which the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr. Hassan Bello is pursuing development of transport infrastructure in the Northern corridor in the last few years has been superlative when compared to the quantum silence accorded to…
Why Emirates, S’Africa displaced Nigeria in juicy 10 profitable African routes
Fresh report published by OAG, an international analysis company, has revealed that the Emirates and South African routes dominated Africa in continental air travel space in the last one year. The strategic take away from the report is the fact…
Aviation fuel analysts link scarcity to landing cost, racketeering, faults NNPC
Just as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Thursday said it had enough stock of aviation fuel to meet the needs of airline operators and other consumers of the product in Nigeria, industry analysts have traced the rising aviation fuel…
NSE bundles Oando Plc from Medium Priced Stock to Low Priced Stock
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Thursday announced the reclassification of Oando Plc from Medium Priced Stock to Low Priced Stock effective Thursday, September 5, 2019. The Exchange averred in a terse statement to Business Hilights that “This is in compliance…
