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By Aduragbemi Omiyale The Managing Director of Payment Processing & Switching at Interswitch Purepay, Mr Akeem Lawal, has said the company will always throw its full weight behind conversations aimed at improving the payments industry. Mr Lawal said this ahead of the 2023 annual conference of the Committee of e-Business Industry Heads (CeBIH) scheduled to take place from Tuesday, December 5, 2023, to Wednesday, December 6, 2023, in Lagos. He is one of the speakers slated to attend the event with the Managing Director of Verve International, Vincent Ogbunude; and the Managing Director of Digital Infrastructure and Managed Services at

By Modupe Gbadeyanka On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, stakeholders within the telecoms and ICT ecosystem gathered at Fraser Suites in Abuja to discuss Modernization and Digitization, the theme of an event organised by Airtel Nigeria. The Director of Airtel Business at Airtel Africa Plc, Mr Luc Serviant, while addressing the participants, emphasised the company’s commitment to fostering collaboration and partnerships that drive progress and innovation. He highlighted Airtel Nigeria’s dedication to endowing the public sector through cutting-edge technologies, enabling transformative change on a national scale. “At Airtel, we are happy to discuss connectivity, innovation & technology, digital pillars, cloud security,

By Adedapo Adesanya Leading global provider of technological solutions YNV Group, through its cybersecurity brand, Cytek, has advocated that stakeholders in the financial services sector prioritise cybersecurity and highlighted key strategies for resilience at a recently hosted webinar for the industry. The session which was held on November 22, was themed Ensuring Cybersecurity Resilience in Financial Services Companies in Nigeria, and served as a pivotal platform for fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange in the sector. Led by cybersecurity experts in the industry, the webinar analysed some of the pressing challenges and emerging threats faced by financial services companies in Nigeria while

By Adedapo Adesanya The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Mr Bosun Tijani, has announced a N1 billion partnership between the ministry and IHS Towers, one of the largest independent communications infrastructure firms in the world, to establish the 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) Learning Community. The ministry earlier this month released a 31-page policy document titled Accelerating our Collective Prosperity through Technical Efficiency which outlined plans to boost the country’s economy through the use of technology. It said it would collaborate with other ministries and parastatals, including private sector stakeholders to drive opportunities for startups to facilitate the

The advent of the novel coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19, into the country seems to have destabilized our social norms and behaviour. Nigeria, like all other countries of the world where this pandemic has visited, has responded by both treating the people who have contracted the disease and putting some preventive measures in place to minimize the rate to which her citizens get infected. Some of the measures the government has put in place to forestall transmission of the virus include the restriction on movement, closure of schools, ordering some cadres of the employees to stay home for some

By Dipo Olowookere Companies trading their unlisted securities on the floor of the NASD OTC Exchange recorded a growth of 0.71 percent last week. At the close of transactions on Friday, the Unlisted Securities Index closed at 692.47 points in contrast to 687.60 points it finished the previous Friday. Also, the total market capitalization appreciated closing higher at N468.62 billion compared with N465.31 billion it ended a week earlier. Business Post reports that the price gainers’ chart for the week was led by NIPCO Plc and Friesland Campina Wamco Nigeria Plc. While NIPCO finished at N74 from N73, Friesland Campina

By Dipo Olowookere Stocks in the industrial goods sector led by Dangote Cement helped the local bourse sustain its bullish run on Thursday, appreciating by 2.92 percent at the close of business. The cement giant mainly contributed to the 7.98 percent rise posted by the sector, which was the only gainer yesterday. Selloffs in the banking sector caused its 0.39 percent downfall during the session just as the profit taking affected the consumer goods sector, which went down by 0.21 percent and the oil/gas index, which declined by 0.07 percent, with the insurance sector closing flat. Dangote Cement topped the

By Adedapo Adesanya The NASD Over-the-Counter (OTC) Securities Exchange closed in the positive territory, climbing by 0.38 per cent on Wednesday, December 28. Business Post reports that the duo of FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc and Niger Delta Exploration and Production (NDEP) Plc helped the market capitalisation of the OTC exchange rise by N3.53 billion to close at N928.59 billion against the previous value of N925.06 billion. Equally, the NASD Unlisted Securities Index (NSI) jumped by 2.68 points during the session to wrap up at 706.68 points versus the preceding session’s 704.00 points. In the midst of the growth, the share

By Omoshola Deji Democracy is basically the right of the governed to elect who governs. The people of Ekiti State, Southwest, Nigeria, would troop out on July 14 to elect who’ll govern them for the next four years. Over 30 candidates are running, but the election is ostensibly a two-horse race between Dr John Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Professor Kolapo Olusola ‘Eleka’ of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This piece sets sight on foretelling the outcome of the election. Before proceeding, the below-average logical reasoning ability of the Nigerian political class makes some clarification necessary.

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) closed on a positive note for the second straight day with the major market indicators pointing north. The stock market had closed yesterday by over two percent, the first time it was doing so in two months in a single day. Today, the market further closed in the green zone, though not above yesterday’s achievement, but by 0.28 percent. The All-Share Index and the market capitalisation improved by 71.82 points and N25 billion respectively to finish at 25,818.87 points and N8.934 trillion. Business Post correspondent reports that at the close

According to a recent study by Recap, a crypto tax software and portfolio tracking company, London is the top bitcoin hub worldwide as a result of its outstanding financial structure, while Dubai is a close second. To be put in a competition with some of the most exciting metropolises makes coming to the top worthwhile. In the list of 20 cities, Dubai managed to outrun New York, Singapore, Los Angeles, Zug, Hong Kong, Paris, Vancouver, Bangkok, Lisbon, and a few more. Thanks to Dubai’s forward-thinking attitude towards blockchain and cryptocurrency, the city has implemented a variety of regulations to allow

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc (IBEDC) has announced the commencement of the revised service-based reflective tariff approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). A statement issued by the company’s Head Branding and Corporate Communications, Ms Angela Olanrewaju, disclosed that the new tariff became effective Sunday, November 1, 2020. Recall that in September 2020, the federal government asked electricity distribution companies in the country to suspend the new prices of energy consumption after it held a meeting with labour unions. A technical committee was later set up to review the September 1 cost-reflective tariffs and it