Month: January 2020
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Business Insight
Facebook brings Amber Alerts to South Africa in a first for the continent
South Africa has become the first country in Africa to join to the Facebook Amber Alerts programme. This follows the…
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UAE investors target aviation and others sectors for investment in Akwa Ibom
Akwa Ibom state has been showcased as the next big thing in Nigeria’s aviation industry with many countries, including the…
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SPDC lifts force majeure on Bonny Light crude exports
Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has lifted a force majeure on Bonny Light crude oil…
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CBN reaffirms ban on importation of NPK fertilizers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reiterated that the ban on importation of all NPK fertilizers and any other…
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Turnaround costs push Deutsche Bank to $6bn loss
Deutsche Bank plunged to a bigger than expected loss of 5.7 billion euros ($6.3 billion) last year, its fifth in…
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Virginia Rometty, IBM CEO, to step down
Virginia Rometty will step down as IBM’s CEO, the company announced Thursday, and Arvind Krishna, IBM’s senior vice president of…
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Zimbabwean entrepreneur invents open-sourced technology to improve access to education in Africa
Zimbabwean AI expert William Sachiti, CEO of UK-based start-up Academy of Robotics has published an open-source technology known as ‘Trees…
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Nigeria must leverage power of ICT to contain insurgency, emergencies – NCC
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has said that Nigeria must leverage…
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Commentaries
The Impact of Brexit on Nigeria
Last week, Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, hosted the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London. Despite media chatter about Buhari’s…
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Commentaries
Countries in the IMF financial spotlight in 2020
In 2020, the IMF plans to assess the stability of twelve financial systems. Seven assessments are of jurisdictions with systemically…
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