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By Adedapo Adesanya The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Mr Bosun Tijani, intends to close the world’s tech talent shortage by almost a quarter with Nigerian workers. He said this would be achieved through the federal government’s plan to train 3 million technical talents over the next four years. The initiative could help achieve President Bola Tinubu’s goal of creating a million tech jobs in the first two years of his administration. “I believe, based on data that LinkedIn has projected, Nigeria can fill about 23 per cent of the current global shortage in technology talents,” Mr Tijani

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Salesforce and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have expanded their strategic partnership, deepening product integrations across data and artificial intelligence (AI). The new and enhanced integrations will include streamlining purchasing options for customers via the AWS marketplace, enhancing customer experiences through unified data management, empowering developers with new AWS compute and development services, securely bringing AWS data and AI services to Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Platform, and ensuring seamless customer service with service cloud and Amazon connect. It was gathered these features will enable customers to seamlessly and securely manage their data across Salesforce and AWS, and safely and

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 Dipo Olowookere On Monday, September 23, 2019, a fire incident was reported at the Lekki, Lagos premises of ICT Solutions firm, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) Plc. The inferno caused some level of material loss to the company, but in a statement yesterday, the management of CWG assured stakeholders that the fire has been brought under control. According to the statement, “On the morning of 23rd of September, 2019, a fire broke out within one of the premises of CWG Plc; located at Lekki Phase 1, around 10:30am. The building affected currently serves as a storage unit for the location;

By Dipo Olowookere The board of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp) Plc has announced a profit before tax of N17.717 billion for the period ended September 30, 2018. This is contrast to the N9.042 billion achieved as at September 30, 2017. Transcorp, in its financial statements released on Tuesday and briefly checked by Business Post, declared a profit after tax of N15.962 billion compared with the N8.185 billion achieved in the same period of last year. In addition, the revenue generated by the firm grew to N79.861 billion from N56.757 billion, while the gross profit went up to N36.960 billion

A prosecution witness, Mr Howard Edafe, in the ongoing N8.5 billion fraud case involving a former Joint Military Task Force Commander, Mr Emmanuel Atewe, on March 12, 2020 told Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the retired Major-General bought 30,000 units of shares from MTN Links for N170.4 million between 2014 and 2015. A statement issued by the Media and Publicity Department of the agency said Mr Edafe, who is currently an Internal Auditor with Stanbic IBTC bank, while being led-in-evidence by counsel for the EFCC, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, testified as the fourth

By Ashemiriogwa Emmanuel Mouka Limited, manufacturers of household and industrial foam products in Nigeria, has demonstrated its commitment to promoting a sustainable environment with the launching of its new eco-friendly mattress called Eco-Comfy. According to Mouka’s Head of Marketing, Mr Tolu Olanipekun, the Eco-Comfy fibre mattress is made of  100 per cent recyclable polyester fibre which allows for the conversion of old mattresses into other valuable items to cut down on environmental pollution. Commenting at the launch of the product, he said, “Eco-Comfy is eco-friendly as it is made of 100 per cent recyclable polyester fibre, which means an old

By Adedapo Adesanya A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Yakubu Maikyau, has emerged as the 31st President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Mr Maikyau was named the new NBA president following an election of the legal body which was held virtually. The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, who is also a SAN, Professor Ayodele Akintunde, announced the outcome of the exercise on Sunday in Abuja. He said Mr Maikyau polled a total of 22,342 votes to win the election and was followed closely by his fellow SAN, Mr Joe-Kyari Gadzama, who garnered 10,842 votes while Mr Taidi Jonathan

By Adedapo Adesanya As the oil market continues to make slow recovery on the back of production cut from oil producers, global investment firm, Goldman Sachs, has raised its estimate for price of the Brent Crude next year. The bank revised up its projection for the international oil benchmark, under which Nigeria’s crude grade is priced, to $55.63 per barrel from $52.50 per barrel previously expected. There was also review of estimate for the US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude price in 2021 to $51.38 per barrel from $48.50 earlier estimated. The market had been plagued by lower demand as

By Dipo Olowookere The Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Mr Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly called Yayi, has been praised by President Muhammadu Buhari for being courageous. The President, in a message to greet the lawmaker for attaining the golden age of 50, said the respected accountant-turned politician stood by his people and his political party during the time of adversity at the last Senate headed by its President, Mr Bukola Saraki. In a statement signed on Saturday, August 10, 2019 by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, the Chairman of the Senate

By Aduragbemi Omiyale Mr Jide Omokore, an ally of former Minister of Petroleum, Ms Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been acquitted by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Mr Omokore was accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of laundering funds to the tune of $1.6 billion. However, at the ruling on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, Justice Dimgba held that the anti-money laundering organisation could not prove its case against Mr Omokore and two companies linked to him, Atlantic Energy Brass Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited. But two other persons linked to the