NSE to Review 2020 Market Activities, Provide 2021 Outlook
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) will hold its annual 2020 Market Recap and 2021 Outlook on Tuesday, 19 January 2021, next week. In light of the current protocols around the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will hold virtually and is open…
Super rare diamond sets world record
In November 2020 Christie’s made jewellery auction history. A rare rectangular-cut fancy purplish-red diamond ring of 1.05 carats, sold for $2.77 million – establishing a house and worldwide record of price per carat for a diamond of that colour. Business…
The global Top 5 Risks for Business in 2020
The Top 5 risks are released as part of Control Risks’ annual RiskMap report, a global risk forecast for business leaders and policy makers across the world, published today. A world with long COVID 2021 will be a year of…
TEF to drive 3000 entrepreneurs in 2021, targets 50% female participation
In a bid to provide access to capital to entrepreneurs, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has said its intervention is targeting about 3000 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with a special focus on female entrepreneurs. This is even as the…
Nigeria Telecoms in 2020: How NCC’s Regulatory Activities fared—(1)
No doubt, the Nigerian telecommunications sector in the year 2020 has been an eventful year with a lot of landmark regulatory initiatives by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Otherwise, fact-checks by Business Hilights show amongst others that tilights he policies,…
Global Gaming PC supplies to Jump by 25%, rise to 62m in 2024
As one of the few sectors that have been booming amid the coronavirus outbreak, the video games industry has witnessed a significant jump in gaming equipment sales this year. With millions of people spending more time indoors and online amid…
Vertiv Experts foresee Utility-Like Criticality for Data Centers in 2021
As the world moved online seemingly overnight in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the criticality of data centers and the unrelenting reliance on them across all walks of life became an enduring storyline of the crisis. This reality will…
KongaJara2020, final countdown sale now live
Nigeria’s leading composite e-Commerce giant has rolled out KongaJara 2020, the final sales promo for the year, offering customers huge savings on their year-end shopping. This year’s edition of KongaJara, an annual final shopping campaign for each year exclusive to…
NCC bags International Public Relations Association Award
…Wins SAEMA 2020’s Emergency and Security Management Prize The contributions of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to the fight against insecurity in the country has received global endorsement with the Commission bagging two prestigious international awards at the weekend. Leading…
Gowon Seeks Innovative ways to Reposition Transportation
… As CIoTA Moves to Professionalise Transportation Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), has called for partnership between the public and private sectors in order to come up with innovative ways of resolving the transportation challenge in the…
