Nigeria and Oil: Looking beyond price collapse towards post recovery savings (Part 2)
By Austin Okere On April 20, 2020 the screaming headlines on CNN was that the price of WTI crude oil had fallen by 306% to $-37.63 per barrel, the first time on record that oil price has hit negative territory….
Nigeria and Oil: Looking beyond price collapse towards post recovery savings(Part 1)
By Austin Okere On April 20, 2020 the screaming headlines on CNN was that the price of WTI crude oil had fallen by 306% to $-37.63 per barrel, the first time on record that oil price has hit negative territory….
Blockchain, Fintech fast becoming future of banking, says Austin Okere
Pioneer Information Technology (IT) entrepreneur, founder CWG Plc and most recently, Ausso Leadership Academy (ALA), Mr. Austin Okere was the keynote speaker at 2018 Bankers Nite held weekend in Lagos. Hereunder is his thought-provoking presentation; Excerpts: Even though…
Nigeria: A Chance for Re-Awakening sleeping economy after all
By Austin Okere Nigerians are gradually coming to terms that the cheese has indeed moved this time. The days of lucre and easy money, fuelled by petrodollars are far behind us; no thanks to shale oil and other sources of…
Okere drags Ausso Leadership Academy to Nigeria to grow business mentorship
Drawing strong inspirations from the rare global success achieved by software developers and other IT tacticians in entrepreneurship at Silicon Valley, which has been underpinned by a strong mentorship culture, pioneer entrepreneurial advocate and founder of CWG Plc, Austin Okere,…
You either collaborate with FinTechs or fade away soon, CBN tells Banks
The truth of the century on the future of banking was recently made clear to the Nigerian money deposit banks (MDBs), by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the just concluded 2017 annual retreat of the Committee of E-Business…
CWG Plc steps up CSR, targets IDPs @ 25 year anniversary
Indigenous information technology solutions provider servicing West, Central and Eastern Africa, CWG Plc, at the peak of celebrating its 25 years of operations has unveiled a strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative tailored at catering for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
The 4 business models of competitive strategy and sustainable growth
By Austin Okere A while back I had a post on my social media that drew sharp contrasting views. It was regarding positioning with lowest price as the main competitive differentiator, suggesting that it was a race to zero (or…
How to strike balance between employer/employees’ relationship
By Austin Okere, Founder of CWG Plc Background: Employees believe that employers couldn’t care less about them and are only out to exploit them; and Employers believe that employees couldn’t care less about the business and are only after the…
Agada, CWG boss explains records N128 million profit in 2016
The Group Chief Executive Officer of pioneer indigenous ICT firm, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) Plc., James Agada, has opened up on the profit after tax of N128 million in its 2016 operations, despite the microeconomic challenges it faced ib both…
