Cryptocurrencies or the virtual currencies are the digital assets used by people in today’s era. The era of technology has produced a great innovation for people. It has shrunk the world into a compact form through these financial transactions. People can transact on the go; all they need is an
Abuja – The annual e-Nigeria International Conference, slated from Nov. 28 to Nov.30 in Abuja will leverage on advancing technology,indigenous innovation and ensure Nigeria attains the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda of 2030. Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head Cooperate Affairs and External Relations of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA),
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that talent, hard work, innovation, integrity and being trustworthy citizens are vital for success. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said that the vice president gave this advice on Saturday in his convocation lecture at the 6th convocation ceremony of Baze University, Abuja. The vice president told the […]
When I started out my career in the media industry twenty years ago, pan-regional data was scarce and based on many assumptions, but we used it the best we could to gain insight into our audience, their behaviour and response to programming and advertising campaigns. Fast forward to 2018 and we are in another world […]
The GBCHealth’s Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA) alongside the Private Sector Malaria Prevention Project (PSMP) at John Hopkins Center for Communication, UK Aid and the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ghana Health Services, have conferred the ‘Innovation Award’ on Access bank and other significant awards to four other organisations for their roles
Top Nigerian lender, Fidelity Bank Plc is championing a ground breaking innovation in the collection of internally generated revenue (IGR). Working in conjunction with SystemSpecs, a leading electronic financial transactions company and owners of Remita, Fidelity Bank has launched a more convenient collection and remittance of Federal Government Revenues via its
More than 1000 individuals, organisations and future disruptors are expected to gather in Abeokuta, Ogun State, for The TechSummitOgun 2018. With the theme “Disruptive Innovation; Where Are We?” the summit will hold at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, Thursday, January 18, 2018. Hosted by Vervetree Global, an emerging incubator, the summit will convey leading […]
In 2012, the world converged on Brazil for Rio + 20 to set development agenda for post 2015. The Assembly’s outcome document was: ‘’The Future We Want’,’ recognized that each country faces specific challenges to achieve sustainable development. One of the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, is to ‘’promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable […]
The FirstBank’s Sustainability Centre will hold the fourth edition of the annual International Sustainability Conference – one of the activities and programmes driven by the centre. The FirstBank’s Sustainability Centre is a partnership between the Bank and the Lagos Business School (LBS); and the theme for this year’s conference is, “Partnership for Sustainable
The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) has spent N700 million to develop an Integrated Automation and Interactive GIS Web Portal to improve ‘Ease-of-Doing-Business’ in the mining sector, the Minister, Kayode Fayemi, has disclosed. He stated this in Abuja yesterday at the launch of the portal. Fayemi said “the portal is a cutting edge […]
Given the structure of our social safety net, automation tends to increase poverty and inequality rather than unemployment. People are worried about robots taking jobs. Driverless cars are around the corner. Restaurants and shops increasingly carry the option to order by touchscreen. Google’s clever algorithms provide instant translations that are remarkably good. But the
The Nigerian Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP)! will be driven by science, technology and innovation, with the youths being targeted to deliver the Plan success, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has disclosed. Senator Udoma, while receiving the Country Representative of UNICEF, Mr Mohammed Malick Fall, in Abuja at […]
Experts under the umbrella of Weight a Minute Wellness Company, has affirmed that in order to gain an edge in today’s disruptive business environment, and harness available opportunities in workplaces, business leaders in organizations must hone their entrepreneurial skills to engage their team. Speaking at the conference, which took place at Business School Netherlands in
The Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale lauded the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on its next generation trading engine the X-GEN. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) gave this applause at the first market data workshop organised by the NSE on Tuesday whilst urging the NSE to integrate […]
Nigeria can create digital economy through digital infrastructure and innovation, says the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA). In a recently released research report entitled: “Accelerators to an Inclusive Digital Payments Ecosystem”, BTCA says that Nigeria can become truly cashless by embracing digitisation of payments. The research, which was based on
