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Nigerian software companies can match foreign firms –Igwebuike

Mr. Uchenna Igwebuike is the Chief Executive Officer, Zanibal On-Demand Solutions, an indigenous software development company. In this interview with SIMON EJEMBI, he discusses the state of the...

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Striking South African car workers reject wage deal

Striking South African car workers rejected a double-digit wage increase offer on Thursday and said they would intensify a strike that has crippled production of a major export. According to Reuters,...

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NSE intensifies efforts to inaugurate new trading platform

Less than a month after it announced plans to introduce a new electronic trading platform, the Nigerian Stock has intensified activities aimed at achieving the goal. The Chief Executive Officer, NSE,...

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Southgate, Cisco recommend automation for customers satisfaction

Southgate Technologies Limited and Cisco Systems have advised experts in the information and communication technology sector to automate their data collection process. The companies gave the advice...

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Market capitalisation falls by N48bn

Equity trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange witnessed weak bargain on Friday, with major indicators losing marginally. The market capitalisation of the listed shares fell by 0.4 per cent...

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Diamond Bank commits N150bn to oil, gas financing

The Corporate Banking Director, Diamond Bank Plc, Mr. Samuel Egube, has said that the bank has put together about $1bn (N150bn) for the funding of oil and gas projects in Nigeria. Egube, in an...

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Domestic airlines to increase air fares

Rattled by sundry government’s charges and soaring aviation fuel price, domestic airlines are planning to raise their airfares to avert going bankrupt, airlines sources have said. The accounts of...

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Terminal operator denies allegations of inhuman treatment

A port terminal operator, APM Terminals Apapa Limited, has denied reports that it is subjecting Nigerians to inhuman treatment at the physical examination site. A statement by the firm on Friday quoted...

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Next election will increase pressure on exchange rate — Sanusi

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, spoke to journalists in Abuja after this month’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting on the challenges facing the financial sector. IFEANYI...

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How to make your proposal stand out

Of all the emails I received in response to my article published on the August 18, 2013 with the theme: ‘Acknowledging and responding to proposals’, I have chosen the email from Olusegun Ogunwale as...

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Managing small IT service business profitably

It is a known fact that most businesses these days cannot do without one aspect of ICT or the other. So, would you consider money spent on IT as good, long-term investment or perhaps simply an...

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High cost of governance in Nigeria

In every human civilisation, difficult problems are only difficult to resolve because of scarcity of problem solvers. And nations are unable to surmount their difficult problems because such nations do...

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Six cool plugins for wordpress

WordPress & I have come a long way. By now, I have tested a minimum of a thousand plugins and personally installed many more on hundreds of blogs and websites. Based on experience, I can say...

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Death of bank’s customer

Some weeks ago, we dwelled extensively on the issue of banker-customer relationship. This topic, which we discussed in three separate editions, appeared to be inexhaustible apparently since it forms...

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‘Integrity is the soul of business’

The Chief Executive Officer of Komo Online, Ademola Amokomowo, 30, tells Tope Omogbolagun why it is better to start a business at a very young age When did you start your business? The business started...

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Govt begins audit of social devt sector

The Federal Government is set to begin a comprehensive evaluation and audit of the social development sector in the country with the aim of evolving a national framework on social development. The...

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China’s economy strengthens with rising factory gauge

China’s economy is strengthening after a two-quarter slowdown, with a manufacturing gauge rising to a 16-month high in August as new orders jumped and overseas demand rebounded. Bloomberg reported that...

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FCT Administration targets N500bn PPP investments

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has said it is accessing about N500bn investments for  infrastructure development and has also put machinery in motion to access more in the years ahead....

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Libya oil output decline threatens public sector pay

Libya’s government may stop paying civil servants by the end of the year as protests at petroleum facilities curtail the nation’s oil output to one-tenth of its capacity, a lawmaker warned. According...

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Power supply drops by 400MW

The Management of Transmission Company of Nigeria said power supply dropped by 400 megawatts on Sunday (yesterday), as the Agip Okpai Power Station Delta State was shut for scheduled annual...

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