History as Apple Buys a Nigerian’s ICT Firm for $1Bn
Apple has bought Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com, The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital reports. Founded in 2005, HopStop.com makes mobile applications for both iOS and Android that covers over 300 cities…
Splinter Governors’ Forums Unite as Shettima Succeeds Aliyu
The troubled Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, was on the path of reconciliation Monday night as henchmen behind the two factions met for the first time since the divisive election that…
Court Orders GTBank to Refund Illegally Withdrawn N5.3bn from Customer’s Account
For a client of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Dr. Ted I. Edwards, justice seems to have been served as a court has ordered the bank to pay back a hefty…
Fuel Scarcity to Worsen as Oil Workers Threaten Shut Down over Sale of Oil Blocs
Employees of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have been directed to shutdown indefinitely their locations and all oil production facilities…
Commentary: Regreening Our Habits
Before now, global arguments about climate change were generally viewed as elitist, neo-colonial intrusions into our poor lives. Still grappling with rudimental developmental and political issues, African leaders and their…
Bankers Give Recipe on How To Manage the Nation’s Gas Resource
In the interview with our Correspondent, Theresa Igata, the duo of Dolapo Oni and Jubril Kareem , both members of ECOBANK Research Team, clearly sets agenda for the Federal Government…
Exposed! How Immigration officials extort money from Nigerians to process international passport.
Nsikak Umanah, a US-based legal practitioner had gone to the Ikoyi, Lagos State, passport office of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), to obtain a new international passport. Barrister Umanah, was…
Stakeholders See Boom in Africa ICT Bourse as TD, EMC Seal Partnership
The partnership between global data storage giants EMC and Technology Distributions, biggest ICT distributors in Sub-Saharan Africa has been hailed as a strategic initiative which will go a long way…
Jonathan Fires NIPC Boss, Umar, Appoints Hassan-Baba
President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Mrs. Saratu Altine Umar. A statement issued by the president’s spokesperson Reuben Abati said…
Senator-elect, Khalifa Zannah, Dies of Liver Cancer
Borno State senator-elect Khalifa Ahmed Zannah, who was re-elected in the April, 2015 election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to represent Borno Central Senatorial District at…
