When it comes to innovation and pushing what’s possible, banks have long been shy to take big steps. Handling eye-watering amounts of money tends to put the urge to experiment a long way down the list of priorities. But the pressure is mounting now. Across the world, new fintech players and
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The Nigerian telecom sector may soon herald fresh transformation as new guiding principles have started to unfold gradually. Barely a month after the current Executive Vice Chairman, EVC of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta was reappointed, the man is beginning to give an indication that a new sheriff
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Nigeria is having dirty fuel dumped on it that cannot be sold to other countries with higher and better implemented standards, a new report by an international resource watchdog group has said. Stakeholder Democracy Network said in the report that black-market fuel made from stolen oil in rudimentary “bush” refineries hidden
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The coronavirus pandemic has been a sobering wake-up call to swiftly abolish corporate inertia plaguing critical event management. COVID-19 has brought into sharp focus how to keep employees safe with minimal business disruption. This was particularly telling in a recent high-level meeting with around 30 senior executives from major brands from
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The broadcast industry has been in the news lately. First, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the regulator of the industry released the 6th Edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code which has simmered in cacophonous responses from multi-stakeholder interests in the industry. Then, only last week, the regulator got buttoned in
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Telecommunications operators are doing better than operators in other industries amidst COVID-19 pandemic because they provide alternative platforms for socialisation, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Mr Segun Ogunsanya, has said. Ogunsanya said it was a misconception that telecommunications companies were benefiting from the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that voice revenues
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One of the barometers for measuring the level of economic development and improvement in the quality of lives of the citizenry of a country, is the quality of the standards of goods and services produced and consumed in that country. This is because, standards and other means used in providing
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Just over 23% of the global population will be using mobile point of sale systems by 2024, according to new research from Buyshares.co.uk. The research indicated that around 1.75 billion mobile users around the world will use the technology - and the adoption of POS will continue to rise in popularity. Point
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Microsoft has quietly launched a new utility service – Windows File Recovery for Windows 10. While this service may be an important boon for users who have been struggling for years to use an application to quickly and efficiently recover permanently deleted files, it comes with a rather large catch. The entire
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The West African Ebola outbreak (2014-2016), which led to a nine month lockdown, closure of schools and economic hardship in Sierra Leone served as an eye opener to the rise in pregnancies among girls and young women during pandemics. Women are sexually abused, exploited and engage in consensual sex during lockdowns
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