The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has urged stakeholders within the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises’ (MSMEs) ecosystem to create a more supportive environment for MSME’s to grow, thrive and contribute to the economy. The Chief Executive Officer, SMEDAN, Dr Olawale Fasanya, gave the...
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Access Bank Plc, says it has enhanced its Agriculture Desk to boost sustainable agricultural business and attract global investments. The Executive Director, Commercial Banking, Access Bank, Ms Hadiza Ambursa, at a news conference on Wednesday in Lagos, said that the move aimed at improving value for its...
G To mark its 25 birthday, Google is celebrating on its site with a new Google Doodle, where it put ’25’ in place of the two O’s to spell G25gle NAN reports that Google was launched in Sept. 27, 1998 by co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In the...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and International Oil Companies for optimal contracting cycle in the industry. The MoU will implement industry framework, focused on processes and timelines for achieving...
The Media Advocacy West Africa – MAWA Foundation calls on Mr. Bola Tinubu, the Nigerian President to review his policy on fuel subsidy removal. This is because, the fact before us and other countries’ experience has shown fuel subsidy is energy security that countries cannot do without, because of...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has extended the deadline for submission of applications and entries into the 2023 Talent Hunt through a Hackathon to Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr Reuben Muoka disclosed this in a...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, has charged info tech investors from the United States to take advantage of the large pool of young and active population to establish ICT hubs in the state. Governor Otu made the call when he received...
Ghana may soon be exporting electricity to its neighbour, Nigeria, according to latest reports. Mr. Hanson Monney, the Head of the Generation and Transmission Unit at the Ghanaian Ministry of Energy, emphasised that via effective policy development and implementation, Ghana has already attained an impressive 80% to...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the average retail price of a litre of Petrol increased from N189.46 in Aug. 2022 to N626.70 in Aug. 2023. It made the declaration in its Petrol Price Watch for Aug. 2023 released in Abuja on Friday. It stated that the...
YouTube on Friday announced new generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) products to usher in an era of creative expression. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines that can think like humans. YouTube’s Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) Neal Mohan, said in...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. has signed up as a participant of the United Nations Global Compact, thereby becoming the first state-owned oil company to join the global initiative. Group CEO of NNPC Ltd., Malam Mele Kyari,, signed the Letter of Commitment, at the ongoing UN General...
President Bola Tinubu has assured prospective investors of his administration’s determination to adopt necessary fiscal and regulatory measures toward the ease of doing business in Nigeria. At the Nigeria-U.S. Executive Business Roundtable, the President said he recognised that investment capital is cowardly in nature. He said that was the...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday announced the indefinite postponement of the September version of its bi-monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. CBN Director of Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, announced the postponement in a statement in Abuja. Recalled that the...
MTN Nigeria says it plans to strategise and adopt the Application Programming Interface (API) Technology to boost its customer services. MTN’s Chief Information Officer, Information Technology, Shoyinka Shodunke, made this known at the 2023 Africa Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) holding in Abuja. The theme of the programme...
A multinational technology company, Google on Wednesday announced new updates to Bard, its experimental, conversational, Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat service. Google’s Communication and Public Relations Manager, West Africa, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, said in a statement that the company was rolling out “a most capable model of the Bard.” He said...
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday in Abuja unveiled a new online platform for the submission licence applications by microfinance banks. Its Director, Corporate Communications, Mr Isa AbdulMumin, said the platform, known as the CBN Licensing, Approval and Other Requests Portal (CBN LARP), would be the place...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, said on Wednesday that Artificial Intelligence-powered solutions have the potential to address some of Africa’s most pressing challenges, such as limited access to healthcare, food security, financial inclusion, and infrastructure development....
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), announced in Abuja on Wednesday new numbering format for fixed lines. In the process, Nigeria’s Fixed-Lines Numbering Format has changed from eight digits to 10 digits by just adding “02” prefix before existing fixed number. The Commission’s Director, Public...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria is now more ready to take its rightful place in the global business environment. The president stated this when he played host to a delegation consisting of the global leadership of an oil and gas transnational giant, ExxonMobil,...