Etisalat Communications, in partnership with O.A. Bella Resources, has empowered 100 individuals with basic life skills and basic equipment to help them maximize their potentials through the establishment of start up businesses. The beneficiaries were pulled from six communities in four states in the South-East and South-South regions. These include Oromeruezimgbu, Rumuokuta and Awalama Communities […]
StarTimes Nigeria, a digital pay TV has revamped one of its four bouquets on its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform, Nova Bouquet, to include three more channels. The additional channel, according to the company is a strategic move to further improve its rich entertainment to budget-conscious subscribers and offer them better value for their money. […]
Fast-selling mobile device brand InnJoo is set to launch its latest brand offering known as Max 3 – a high-specifications smart phone with an epic six inch High Definition (HD) screen with fingerprint technology into the Nigerian mobile devices market to offer more value to millions of consumers. Built around an all-metal body design and […]
Microsoft Corp said it would cut about 2,850 more jobs over the next 12 months, taking its total planned job cuts to up to 4,700, or about 4 percent of its workforce. The company said in May it would cut 1,850 jobs in its smartphone business, most of them in Finland. Microsoft bought Finland-based handset […]
Donald Trump’s donation this month of $2.86 billion of Berkshire stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities has led to his drop to fourth place of the world’s richest person, behind Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc. Bezos climbed the ladder to become the world’s third-richest […]
By Amechi Obiakpu As part of its CSR initiative, the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), in partnership with Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF), a non-governmental organization, last week at Oraifite, Anambra State donated books and computers worth millions of Dollars to 15 tertiary institutions and 30 secondary schools across the South East states of Abia, […]
John Hinckley Jr., who wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three other people in a 1981 assassination attempt prompted by a deranged obsession with actress Jodie Foster, can be freed from a psychiatric hospital to live with his mother, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said Hinckley, 61, who was […]
In what appears to be a season of acquisition, Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd has agreed to buy Gland Pharma – backed by KKR & Co LP – for about $1.4 billion, a source said. The deal however, will be India’s largest inbound acquisition this year. According to Reuters, the deal would be the […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday urged banks to review foreign currency denominated loans in line with the Prudential Guidelines for Deposit Money Banks in the country. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director of Banking Supervision, Mrs Tokunbo Martins, and posted on the website of the apex bank. The […]
The Federal Government has called on Nigerians in the Diaspora to see the current economic realities in the country as good opportunities for them to participate actively in the ongoing efforts to reposition the nation’s economy. Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, who made the call at the 2016 Diaspora Conference in Abuja, on Monday, described Diaspora […]