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By Adedapo Adesanya Data and AI technology company, Flapmax, has announced 12 startups selected for the second cohort of the FAST Accelerator startup programme, created in partnership with Microsoft to help strengthen and scale Africa’s digital ecosystem. Following the conclusion of its 2-week Online Bootcamp, which saw 60+ tech companies participate in intensive online training with experienced mentors, FAST Accelerator’s cohort of 12 startups will progress to a 5-week comprehensive acceleration experience in Silicon Valley, California, starting in October. Speaking on this, Mrs Mame-Fatou Gueye, SME Program Manager, Microsoft Africa Transformation Office, said, “Microsoft believes that African startups and small

By Adedapo Adesanya After a three-year hiatus, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has moved to restart the Delta-2 project, a technology transfer programme between Nigeria and the Czech Republic. The Nigerian agency and its Czech equivalent, the Technology Agency of Czech Republic (TA-CR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2014 in Prague on critical areas of technology transfer and innovations, which resulted in the co-funding of the Czech-Nigeria Bilateral R&D project on the Delta-2 Programme. The programme started in 2020 but got stalled. Now, NASENI, in a statement, said the project may soon continue as the

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By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said Nigeria now ranks seventh in terms of mobile phone usage globally while it takes the 11th spot in terms of internet penetration. The NCC Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Mr Umar Danbatta, disclosed this while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day workshop on emerging technology forum for the telecommunications industry in Abuja on Thursday. Mr Danbatta, who was represented by Mr Abraham Osahadami, the NCC’s Head of Spectrum Database Management, said 82 per cent of the country’s 200 million+ population are telecom subscribers while just 29 per cent

By Adedapo Adesanya The Nigerian Naira lost N6 against the US Dollar at the parallel channel of the foreign exchange market on Wednesday, May 26 as it closed at N493/$1 compared to the previous session’s N487/$1. This decline in the value of the Naira was engineered by the adoption of the Investors and Exporters (I&E) exchange rate as the official rate for the country. This action also plunged the value of the domestic currency against the British Pound Sterling at the unregulated segment of the FX market yesterday by N1 to N688/£1 from the preceding day’s N687/£1 and also battered

By Ebitonye Akpodigha On Wednesday, members of the Nigerian Senate rejected a bill proposed by Senator Oluremi Tinubu seeking a special status for Lagos State being the country’s commercial capital. Mrs Tinubu is a Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the National Assembly. At the plenary yesterday, the floor of the Senate turned rowdy when the bill was debated by members. Senator Olusola Adeyeye of the APC from Osun State, who supported the bill, set the tone for this. He said Lagos was entitled to receiving similar attention the FCT

By Dipo Olowookere Star Lager Millionaires promo, now in its sixth week, has produced 18 more millionaires in Kaduna and Onitsha. Among the winners were John Paul Ocheme a thirty-five year old student based in Kaduna and Zenith Abubakar, a forty-four year old businesswoman based in Sokoto. Cornelius Ocholi a forty one year old cop was also among the lucky Nigerians who became millionaires in the past week. The new millionaires were full of joy and gratitude all through the evening, while meeting with the Nigerian Breweries brand representatives in Kaduna and Onitsha during the presentation events. Star Lager team

By Aduragbemi Omiyale The Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority (OYRTMA) has advised road users to use alternative routes, while its men and other relevant agencies strive to return normalcy to the route. This traffic advisory became necessary following an explosion of a petrol-laden tanker along the Agodi area in Ibadan, the state capital. The Chairman of OYRTMA, Mr Akin Fagbemi, in a statement on Friday, stated that efforts were being made to bring the situation under control. He stated that “the incident, which resulted to the slagging of powered electric poles and cables dangling across the road, portends danger

By Adedapo Adesanya The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to set an exchange rate trading band for them to help staunch rising manufacturing costs worsened by illiquidity in the foreign exchange (FX) market, which has weakened industrial production since President Bola Tinubu carried out reforms in June. In a statement on Wednesday, the body said, “Despite the recent reform to unify all forex windows, the exorbitant premium that persists between the official and parallel exchange rates have further stalled manufacturing operation.” Speaking on ways to improve this, it said, “The short-term

By Dipo Olowookere The appointment of Mr Jeffrey Ewing as the new Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has been announced. In a statement issued by the company’s General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs (PGPA), Esimaje Brikinn, disclosed that the appointment took effect on Sunday, January 1, 2017. Mr Ewing is expected to assume the position of Chairman and Managing Director of Chevron companies in Nigeria. Before his appointment, Mr Ewing was the Director, Deepwater and Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for the Nigeria Mid-Africa Business Unit. He is to take responsibility for Chevron’s upstream operations in Nigeria and

By Modupe Gbadeyanka No fewer than 730 workers have been absolved into the Oyo State civil service following the approval of the state governor, Mr Seyi Makinde. This was confirmed by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Wasiu Olatubosun, in a statement signed on Friday. The Commissioner disclosed that the conversion of the new civil servants was contained in a circular issued by the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Oyo State, Mr Kamoru Abíọ́dún Adéríbigbé. According to hi, the conversion process, which cuts across 92 cadres, is the first of its kind in the history of the

By Adedapo Adesanya The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has drawn the attention of the public to a fraudulent scam been carried out on vulnerable Nigerians during the period of lockdown in some parts of the country. The Commission disclosed that fraudsters are carrying out a scam that promises a “Free N5000 Lockdown Funds to Sustain During Lockdown” Making this disclosure was the Acting Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu on Tuesday, April 28. He said, “The circulation of the fake funds is being carried out online through a phishing link via WhatsApp.  The link is embedded