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General Electric Company (GE) has been awarded the coveted African infrastructure investment award for Public Private Partnership in recognition for GE’s work in Nigeria on Energy (power generation).
This is a clear demonstration of the company’s commitment to sustained investment in the continent, and promotion of local employment and development.
United Nations has said that as the international community strives to accelerate its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a post-2015 agenda, including a set of goals for sustainable development, water and biodiversity are important streams in the discussion.
In message by Ban Ki –Moon, UN secretary general replayed by Unic in Lagos on Wednesday in commemoration of United International Biodiversity Day, he said that although seemingly abundant, only a tiny amount of the water on our planet is easily available as freshwater.
Mayakorp Nigeria Limited, a trusted provider of business development solutions especially in critical areas such as identifying business development requirements, anticipating and managing business risks in collaboration with The Market Leaders Association of Nigeria (an umbrella body of all market leaders in the country) holds a summit to introduce small and medium scale businessmen to the application and use of modern information technology to boost their businesses.
CellMax Technologies, the Swedish innovator and supplier of ultra-high efficiency antennas for mobile networks, has launched the world’s best performing multiband antenna platform.
The first product to be released is the first in a series of record breaking multiband antennas based on the revolutionary patented low loss feed network technology from CellMax Technologies.
The new product is the highest performing multiband antenna on the market, offering 2-4 dB higher radiated power on the high band (1700-2200MHz) compared with antennas from other vendors.
Nigerians’ love of champagne has fetched it the second spender on the drink. New facts emerged over the weekend champagne consumption in the West African country will reach 1.1 million liters by 2017, with 2011 consumption at almost N8 billion.
The figures, from research company Euromonitor, found that Nigeria had the fastest growing rate of new champagne consumption in the world, second only to France, and ahead of rapid growth nations Brazil and China, and established markets such as the US and Australia.
Zinox Technologies Group, Africa’s most integrated ICT group has completed the installation of its state-of the-art PC/Phones assembly plant in Lagos and is now poised to roll out high quality ICT equipment to fire the kiln of development.
The plant which has been powered after successful tests for reliability is the first of its kind in Africa and was completed ahead of the end of May 2013 deadline set by the management last year
The plant has capacity to assemble in-house brands as well as execute contract manufacturing for other brands.
Mr. Rotimi Adeyeye, president, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), has called on the federal government to create an enabling environment for business initiatives to grow and blossom.
Adeyeye, spoke in Ibadan, Oyo state while unveiling the logo of the forth-coming Oyo Mega Trade Fair, and said it was the duty of government to create an enabling environment for the players and not to dabble into business ventures.
The academic community would pay special tributes to late Professor Chinua Achebe as the University of Nigeria Nsukka hosts a special Senate session and academic procession for the late faculty member on May 21.
The Achebe Tribute Senate Session would hold at the Enugu Campus of the multi-campus University of Nigeria.
It is part of activities for the national funeral of the famed author of the epochal Things Fall Apart and other works that defined African literature and made it part of global literary canon.
Revenue Watch’s Resource Governance Index (RGI), has berated Nigeria for its secrecy in oil industry deals and carpeted the economic managers for anti-people laws and corruption.
The New York based body in a study published Wednesday, noted that less than 20 per cent of the global oil and gas based economies meet satisfactory transparency and accountability index.
The announcement by the Rockefeller Foundation of an initiative to create jobs in Africa focusing on the digital field has been lauded as an important strategy by Jack Leslie, chairperson of Weber Shandiwick, a leading public relations firm.
"Digital holds tremendous opportunity for Africa," Leslie said, particularly for Africa which "holds great promise".
