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- 2 Oct 2025
CAPPA Says Nigeria's Over 200m People has only 80 Heart Surgeons
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has observed that only 80 heart surgeons are serving Nigeria’s population of over 200 million. CAPPA stated this as Nigeria joined the…
- 8 Jul 2025
Nigeria Loses over N200Bn from SSB Tax Annually – CAPPA
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has condemned the loss of over N200 billion annually due to gaps in the implementation of the sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax. Mr.…
- 6 Jul 2018
AfDB Convenes Africa Energy Market Place
Public, private and civil society stakeholders, including government agencies, development partners and investors in the energy sector began a two-day workshop yesterday to discuss the technical,…
- 10 Mar 2017
IFC Partners SEC, Others Promote Greater Involvement of Women on Boards
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, Institute of Directors’ Centre for Corporate Governance and Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WimBiz) are collaborating with the Securities…
- 17 Jan 2021
Heirs Holdings Acquires 45% Per Cent of OML 17 from Shell, Total and ENI
Heirs Holdings (“HH”), the leading African strategic investor, in partnership with affiliated company Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (“Transcorp”), Nigeria’s largest publicly listed…
- 22 Sept 2025
African Parliaments Move to Plug $587Bn Annual Revenue Leakages
Lawmakers from several African countries converged in Abuja on Monday to collaborate on strategies to block the annual revenue leakages of $587 billion, as reported by the African Development Bank…
- 21 Jul 2026
Kaspersky Survey Highlights the Need for Smartphone Security
Kaspersky’s latest global survey shows a change in how people go online: 60% of survey participants from the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa (META) region now claim their smartphone is the main…
- 15 Jun 2010
Zain Rewards Winners in Africa Challenge
Zain Nigeria has rewarded more winners in the Home Viewers Game segment of the ongoing International Inter University Television Quiz Show, the Zain Africa Challenge. At the ceremony held at the…
- 3 Nov 2016
Recession, Forex: Cloud Offers Cost Saving Measures to Companies- Sanni
Following the present economic recession and foreign exchange shortage realities in Nigeria, Oracle Corporation believes that organisations in the private and public sectors can best reduce cost of…
- 29 Jul 2016
Foreign Firms Carting Away Nigeria’s Revenues
Nigeria’s foremost industrialist, Aliko Dangote was recently quoted as saying that “Nigeria is the best kept secret in the world. Anybody who does not invest in Nigeria only has himself to blame,…
- 22 Jun 2015
ICAO, WHO to Assess MMIA Medical Emergency Preparedness
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in its global effort to improve states’ preparedness, planning and responses to public health events commenced three-day assessment visit to the…
- 4 Aug 2008
Hewlett Packard Empowers Unijos, Others with $3.6m
Leading technology provider, Hewlett Packard, has empowered 36 universities in Europe, Middle East and Africa with cash and technological equipment worth $3-6million, in line with its corporate…
- 7 Mar 2013
IBM Helps Ekiti State Improve Governance, Education Capabilities
A team of IBM specialists completing a month-long pro bono consulting assignment yesterday presented recommendations to Ekiti State Government (EKSG) for strategies that will improve its…
- 11 Sept 2018
Register Now for Growth Hack Series with John Obaro, MD, SystemSpecs & Others
Growth is something every business owner desires. An entrepreneur hopes for a venture that will grow and expand. Sometimes, the growth may be hampered, largely for lack of proper information and…
- 29 May 2019
AfRALO, NCC, Medallion collaborate DigitalSENSE Africa 2019 Forum on Internet Governance, IPv6 Roundtable
The African Regional At-Large Organisations (AfRALO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is collaborating with DigitalSENSE Africa Media for the 2019 Nigeria…
- 14 Feb 2012
Dataflex Re-Strategizes, Poised for Growth with Key Appointments
Dataflex, one of Nigeria’s foremost information technology companies, has in line with deepening its offering in the Information technology space re strategized through the expansion of its solutions…
- 12 Jun 2015
SAP Business One Solution Displayed at LEAP Africa CEOs Forum
SAP West Africa in collaboration with one of its partners, Hartford Green Consulting showcased the SAP Business One Solution at the 10th Leap Africa CEOs Forum, which held in Lagos during the week. A…
- 3 Feb 2015
FirstBank Expands African Footprint with FBNBank DR Congo
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of FBN Holdings PLC and Nigeria’s most valuable bank brand hasunveiled FBNBank DR Congo, formerly registered as Banque Internationale de Credit (BIC). In…
- 4 Apr 2023
The Industry Summit 4.0: Stakeholders Urges Practitioners to Brace up for More Challenges
Stakeholders in the marketing profession have been urged by experts to prepare for a difficult time ahead in 2023. This call was made at the just concluded The Industry Summit 4.0 with the theme:…
- 5 Mar 2021
Nigeria Loses $10Bn to Illicit Financial Flows – ICPC
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said Nigeria accounts for 20 per cent or 10 billion dollars (N3.8 trillion) of the estimated 50 billion dollars that Africa…
- 3 Oct 2019
PFS’ Clirec Tops Bobsguide 2019 Global Payments Rankings
Bobsguide in its 2019 Global Payment Rankings has voted Precise Financial Systems’ flagship accounts reconciliation solution, Clirec as the world’s best account management solution. There are 40…
- 18 Sept 2014
African Enterprises Must Adopt Mobility Strategy or Loss Out
Organizations that fail to set clear mobility strategies are in grave danger of losing out to the competition, and a complete failure to embrace this new reality will have potentially catastrophic…
- 6 Jul 2010
Pension payment to Embrace E-Payment
The payment of pension claims in Nigeria has over the years been shrouded in pains and agony. Many have died trying to collect their retirement benefits. Unfortunately the various efforts made in the…
- 14 Aug 2014
HTVW&Y Steps Up For Women ICT Summit 2014
Nigerian Women under the umbrella of High-Tech Centre for Nigerian Women and Youths (HTCW&Y) are coming together to channel a noble agenda for tackling the nation’s collective security…
- 22 Jul 2015
Bloomberg, Ford Foundation & 5 African Varsities Team up for 2nd Financial Journalism Training
A new class of financial journalists and professionals interested in financial journalism has begun its Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA) Executive Training Program 2015. The program, which is…
- 6 Oct 2016
Cloud Will Account for Companies’ 80% Innovation in Next 10 Years- Sanni
Cloud is the future. The cloud business over the next ten years will be accounting for over 80% of companies’ innovation, said Adebayo Sanni, country manager, Oracle (Nigeria). Sanni joined Oracle in…
- 4 Oct 2016
AfDB Sets Conditions for Support to Nigeria
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will help Nigeria to overcome its recession but the oil producer should increase taxes and lift hard currency curbs to ease the dollar shortages choking Africa's…
- 23 Oct 2018
NITDA Continues Nationwide Cybersecurity Awareness Workshops
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Tuesday said that it has continued this year’s nationwide cybersecurity awareness workshops. This was disclosed in a statement…
- 10 May 2022
CBN Asks Nigerians to Embrace e-Naira to Curb Fake Alerts
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has charged the banking public to key into its e-Naira platform to avoid fake mobile money transfers. Mr Godfrey Boyor, Lagos branch Controller, stated this during the…