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- 28 Aug 2014
Airtel Receives Commendations for Role in MDGs
Airtel Nigeria, has received commendations from villagers, Community Health Workers (CHWs) and residents of Pampaida Millennium Villages in Saulawa District of Ikara Local Government of Kaduna State.…
- 13 Nov 2008
MTN Gets Award for Supporting MDGs
MTN Foundation, the corporate social investment (CSI) implementing vehicle of the leading telecommunications company in Nigeria, MTN has bagged an award for its exemplary commitment to the…
- 21 Nov 2012
Exset’s DMS to Assist Drive Africa’s UN’s MDGs
Exset, broadcast technology and Solutions Company has revealed how its pioneering Digital Monetisation System (DMS) will assist governments’ vital information dissemination across Africa as they…
- 3 Sept 2015
Nigeria Launches NMIS Portal
Federal government through the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the MDGs (OSSAP-MDGs), has introduced Nigeria’s First country-wide data portal, the Nigeria Millennium…
- 7 Apr 2013
MDAs to Get Information System
Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, minister of National Planning has said that an information system dedicated to the Nigeria Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would soon be unveiled by the federal government.…
- 16 Apr 2013
MDAs to Give 2,250 Conditional Cash Transfer in Adamawa
Alhaji Adamu Garbajo, coordinator, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Adamawa state, has said that 2,250 persons would benefit from its Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Adamawa. Garbajo said…
- 24 Jun 2016
Samsung Says Corporate Citizens Should Make Real Impact on Africa’s SDGs
South Africa, prepared to follow on from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the 17 Sustainable Development Goals were unveiled with the aim of taking steps towards building a better world in…
- 26 Aug 2013
Ecobank Nigeria to Disburse Conditional Cash Transfer Via Mobile Money
Ecobank Nigeria, Pan-African financial institution, has been appointed to assist The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the…
- 26 Jul 2010
Nitda Launches RITC to Take Internet to Underserved Areas
As part of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and National Information Technology Development Agency (Nitda) target objective of providing internet access to the undeserved communities, a rural…
- 14 Jul 2013
Unleashing Prosperity through Broadband Internet
The United Nations (UN) said that the progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-the set of universally accepted anti-poverty measures to be reached by 2015, has been too slow. Around the…
- 10 Aug 2010
Broadband Internet Access as "Basic Right" for Nigerians
The United Nations said that the progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the set of universally accepted anti-poverty measures to be reached by 2015, has been too slow. Around the world…
- 8 Jun 2009
Reps Commend Zain’s CSR Initiatives
The House of Representatives team charged with overseeing programmes designed to help Nigeria defeat poverty and achieve its millennium development goals (MDGs) has approved Zain’s corporate…
- 21 Sept 2010
On the Proposed ICT Ministry
The widespread hope in Nigeria that ICTs could be a powerful tool of development and poverty reduction and of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) led to a proliferation of ICT agencies…
- 12 May 2013
Nigeria’s Future is Mobile- Experts
Experts in mobile communications technology have stressed the need for educators in Nigeria to be up to speed with modern reality if the country would meet her millennium develop goals (MDGs) target…
- 17 Nov 2009
NNPC Says it is Committed to Community Development
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday reassured that it would continue to promote vigorously the 7-point Agenda of the Yar'Adua administration in the spirit of the 2015 Millennium…
- 29 Sept 2008
Ericsson, UN Partner on Digital-Health for Africa
Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for Partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural…
- 13 Aug 2016
Oando Marketing to Train 500 Mechanics Under 3rd Edition ‘Oleum Academy’
Oando Marketing, leading supplier and distributor of refined petroleum products, in its commitment to empower and train mechanics in our society has commenced the third edition of its Oleum Academy…
- 24 Sept 2013
UN Report Affirms the Positive Force of ICT for Empowerment
A new report released by United Nations Broadband Commission has demonstrated how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), have become a positive force of transformation and a crucial…
- 31 May 2010
CBN Decries Lack of Proper Understanding of Concept, Best Practice by MFBs
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cited a complete lack of understanding of the ideal and methods for operating micro-finance banks, in the process of reviewing the licenses of some micro-finance…
- 20 Oct 2014
Nigeria Mobile Solution Rules Africa at WSA Award
Mobile Software Solutions a company established a year ago as an IT Start-up focused on e-Health has shot down Malaria Pandemic to emerge the Best Mobile Software Solution in Africa 2014,…
- 22 Apr 2013
UN, AfDB, Others Agree to Share Data for Development
Ban Ki-Moon, UN secretary-general along with leaders of six multilateral financial institutions, have announced that they would strengthen inter-agency sharing and collaboration on issues related to…
- 5 Oct 2009
Fulfilling Social Contract with Nicep
Most government owned businesses are virtually bankrupt and hopelessly incompetent, apologies to the 'business' management tactics of sleek 'businessmen' politicians”. Because of the…
- 28 Sept 2009
MTN Wins ‘Most Socially Responsible Company in Nigeria’ Award
Mobile telecommunications operator, MTN Nigeria, has established its credentials as the foremost corporate socially responsible company in Nigeria as it clinched six of the top awards at the third…
- 7 Sept 2009
JAAIDS, CFC Promote Safe Motherhood in Nigeria
Communicating for Change (CFC) and Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) recently hosted a roundtable discussion on Safe Motherhood in Nigeria, also considering the role of HIV and Aids in infant and…
- 7 Sept 2009
Ericsson Sponsors e-Health /Telemedicine Conference
World's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators and leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, Ericsson is lending its weight behind the 4th eHealth and telemedicine…
- 23 Aug 2010
Atcon Inks MOU with Itan
Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (Atcon) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (Itan) to facilitate the need for…
- 8 Sept 2010
Why 1.5m Laptop Promo is Still Running --CNP
The management of the Computerize Nigeria Project has announced that the 1.5million laptops promo is still running for two reasons - the promo was designed in part to help provide the appropriate…
- 19 Jul 2010
Third BOI Board of Directors Inaugurated
The Federal Ministry for Commerce and Industry has inaugurated the third Board of Directors of the Bank of Industry (BOI) Limited towards priming the bank for the strategic role it has to play in the…
- 25 Mar 2012
Youth Strategy for ICT Development in Nigeria
If am to summarize my experience as a zonal review panelist for Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria(YouWin!)-a business plan competition organized by the government with the objective of…
- 8 Jun 2009
SGF, Governors Okay Nicep as Knowledge Economy Platform
Galaxy Backbone Plc has been commended for its commitment to driving national development through the provision of ICT infrastructure and services to rural and underserved communities that would lead…