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- 15 Feb 2010
Intercontinental Bank Staff Donate N4.3M to Haiti Relief Project
Members of staff of Intercontinental Bank Nigeria Plc have forwarded a draft donation worth N4.27 Million to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) towards the Haiti Relief Project. This is…
- 1 Feb 2010
Etisalat Offers 35% Discount on Calls to Haiti
Etisalat Nigeria has announced a special 35% discount on all voice tariffs from Nigeria to Haiti as part of its effort to lend support in the wake of the earthquake that recently shook the Central…
- 8 Feb 2010
Amarc Calls for Support in Haiti
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (Amarc) has called on community radio broadcasters worldwide to rally in support of the people of Haiti, following the massive earthquake that…
- 25 Jan 2010
Globacom Raises Funds for Haiti Quake Victims
Globacom, Nigeria’s leading national telecoms operator, has launched an appeal to raise funds to support the rehabilitation of the unfortunate victims of the recent devastating earthquake in…
- 8 Feb 2010
Globacom: Operator with Human Heart
"The business of business is business," said Milton Friedman, economist back in the 1960s. A business exists to make a profit for its shareholders, full stop. That is its sole…
- 28 Oct 2014
IBM Deploys Mobile, Data Analytics & Cloud Technologies against Ebola
IBM has launched several initiatives to help curb the spread of the viral disease in West African nations, as the human toll of the Ebola epidemic continues to climb up in the critically affected…
- 5 Mar 2012
Journal Honours Clickatell with Idea, Innovation Award
Clickatell, leader in Personalized Priority Messaging (PPM) has been recognized for its social and economic impact for work done with non-profits and emergency relief organizations for providing a…
- 11 Oct 2013
Intel Unveils ‘She Will Connect Campaign,’ for Young Women
Intel Corporation has unveiled the ‘She Will Connect Campaign,’ a new program designed to expand digital literacy skills among young women in developing countries. The novel campaign was flagged off…
- 18 Oct 2013
Nigeria, Others Top Slavery's List of Shame
Nigeria is again in the news for the wrong reason: it was dishonorably ranked as the fourth country with the highest numbers of slaves in the world by the Global Index on Modern Slavery for 2013. The…
- 24 Mar 2014
Broadband Must Be Recognized As a Vital Development Enabler
UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development which met in Dublin this weekend has said that access to broadband could be the universal catalyst that lifts developing countries out of poverty and…
- 26 Mar 2015
UPS Foundation Links Advanced Tracking Technology with Global Humanitarian Relief Efforts
The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UPS, has announced the launch of the UPS Relief Link program to help improve the lives of displaced refugees around the world through optimized…
- 28 Aug 2015
Adefuye, Nigerian Ambassador to US is Dead
Prof. Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, Nigeria’s ambassador and head of Missions in the United States of America is dead. He died on Thursday in a hospital in Washington, DC, where he had gone for a…
- 19 Nov 2016
Facebook Launches FbStart App Resource in Africa
More than 150 developers and entrepreneurs gathered for Facebook's first FbStart event in Africa. FbStart is a global programme designed to help mobile start-ups build and grow their apps. The…
- 9 Jun 2023
Polaris Bank Partners Goge Africa to take Customers on a Caribbean Cruise
Polaris Bank has announced an exciting and available opportunity for its customers and prospects seeking a remarkable intercontinental holiday experience tagged: Cruise the Caribbean with Polaris…
- 27 Jun 2023
Strategies for Businesses to be More Sustainable for Tomorrow
By Emmanuel Asika The world’s natural reserves are fast diminishing at a worrisome speed, almost two times quicker than mother earth can recreate. This figure is projected to be 2.3 times what is…
- 20 Oct 2023
Nigeria, 9 Others to Experience Worsening Hunger – Report
Nigeria has been listed as one of the nine countries expected to experience worsening hunger throughout the year, according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool for comprehensively…
- 31 Jul 2024
Nigerian Passport Gains Visa-Free Access to 45 Countries
The Nigerian passport has slightly improved globally, rising to 92nd among nations with visa-free access to other countries. According to a report released by Henley and Partners based on the data…
- 21 Mar 2025
Nigeria, Kenya among Nations Running out of HIV Drugs - WHO
Eight countries - six of them in Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and Lesotho - could soon run out of HIV drugs following the US government's recent decision to pause foreign aid, the World Health…
- 26 Jul 2026
See Verified 20 Countries Nigerian Passport Holders Can Travel Visa-Free
A recently released Henley Passport Index 2026, showed that Nigerian citizens can travel to at least 20 destinations outside the African continent where entry is allowed either visa-free, with a visa…
- E-Financial16 Aug 2026
SEC Orders Capital Market Operators to Cut Banking, Business Ties with Iran, DPRK
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed all capital market regulated entities to terminate correspondent banking relationships and restrict business dealings involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran.
- 25 Jan 2010
Panic as Rumour Links GSM to Earthquake
Some mobile phone users switched off their phones last week after rumours broke out that cosmic rays entering the earth could cause earthquake in the country, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can now…
- 17 May 2010
Clickatell Deploy SMS for Real Time Election Practices
Clickatell’s text messaging gateway has been deployed by a group of Sudanese civil society organizations in a bid to improve the conduct of last month’s election in Sudan. Sudanese…
- 27 May 2012
Nigeria Ranks 121 on Trade Logistics Performance 2012
Nigeria garnered 121 st position, clocking 2.45 and scoring 46.3 per cent out of 155 economies included in the Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI), appearing behind 108 th placed Ghana scoring…
- 26 May 2013
Africa Tempts Hi-Tec Companies
Multinational HighTech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa's relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised…
- 30 Apr 2013
GEJ, Others Waste N1.5Trn on Frivolities
A report by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts has disclosed that N1.518 trillion voted into the Special Funds Accounts (SFA) between 2002 and 2012 was alleged to have been misappropriated. The…
- 19 Sept 2013
Why Nigerians are Barred from US Visa Lottery
Mr. Jeffery Hawkins, United States consul-general, on Thursday, gave reasons why Nigeria was banned from participating in its 2015 Diversity-Visa-Programme registration. Hawkins told journalists at…