​The Director of Financial Services at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Yakubu Gontor, has been honoured for his visionary leadership in the communications industry and contribution towards youth development in Nigeria. According to a statement by Reuben Muoka, Director of Public Affairs at the NCC, the honour was bestowed on Yakubu Gontor by the Northern…
In the last few years, the world has begun a more definitive transition from the place of cynicism and misunderstanding about the issue of Climate Change to that of warmer realisation, if not wholesome acceptance, of the reality of the phenomenon as a significant threat. But then, even in the face of a whittling down…
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has been named the Most Compliant Listed Company at the Nigerian Exchange Limited Made of Africa Awards held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos on 6 December 2022. The award recognises the listed company with the highest levels of compliance with the Rules of The Exchange and other applicable laws…
The 20 years between 1985 and 2005, especially the 90s in between, must pass as the most consequential years in the history of modern-day Banking in Nigeria. Â It was during those years that Banking, as it used to be, was fundamentally redefined, with the institution, held back by traditional approach to book-keeping and sluggish…
Helen Anatogu is a Lawyer turned Technology and Business Incubator. She is the CEO of IDEA, a Software Incubaton programme in Nigeria. She shared with Africa Enterprise the idea behind IDEA In the Beginning… I have always been interested in technology. I am from a family that is deeply embedded in technology in Nigeria. My…
Founders, Investors & One-man Mentality,By Simbo Olorunfemi Yesterday, it was all about this Pharmaceuticals Retailer, supposedly in an ownership tussle between Founder and some foreign equity investor. A lot the reports in the newspapers and commentary leaned more towards a presentation of this as ‘hostile take-over’, by PE, even with the apparent misunderstanding of what…
It was the news by Strive Masiyiwa last week of the launch of the multistory building by his company, Africa Data Centres, at the Eko Atlantic City that jolted me to the fact that I still had not done the story I have been wanting to do on Eko Atlantic City for our magazine. Of…
I like Mr Peter Obi. Trust me, I do. I first got to know about him way back in the 90’s, while he was still in the UK, I think, courtesy of the early editions of Ovation, before the magazine morphed into what people now know it as. Already wealthy then, his simplicity and outlook…
Yesterday, I came across the article by Retson A Tedheke . As usual, he writes from a deep place of undiluted patriotism and knowledge that can only come from hands-on experience, battling with real-life challenges confronting us as a nation. On the Kaduna-Abuja corridor, he submits that “what is happening there is more economic and…
Cosmas Maduka is a fascinating man. I got to know him in the early 90s. through some of the business magazines of that era and later Sunny Ojeagbase’ s Success Digest. His story is as intriguing as it is inspiring. Dropping out of school, after the death of his father, in ‘Elementary 3’ as he…
