MTN, Nigeria’s leading telecommunications company recently launched its Home Broadband services to accelerate broadband penetration in alignment with the Federal Government’s plan to achieve over 70 percent broadband penetration by 2025. With this laun…
Soraya, Nigerian startup smartphone brand, launches next year
Soraya Technologies Limited, a Nigerian start-up company that visualises, plans, designs, manufactures and distributes mobile – smart hand-held phone devices, and accessories will launch its Soraya brand of smartphones into the Nigerian, Sub-Saharan Af…
Is Nollywood losing the cinema market to Netflix?
With the rising streaming culture among Nigerian movie fans and filmmakers, streaming giants like Netflix appear to be taking over Nigeria’s film industry in terms of distribution, especially among the younger demographics. Netflix on its launch in Nig…
We need more disrespect for Nigerian leaders
Do me a favour before you start reading this article. Go to YouTube and search for an animated satire show called “Headcases.” It’s been cancelled now, but back in 2008, it was one of my favourite things on television. Having grown up under General Aba…
Positioning community pharmacists to achieve universal health coverage
The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It includes the full range of essential quality…
Amazon launches Prime Video Naija
Amazon Prime, the global streaming subscription service with 200 million members worldwide and accessible in over 100 countries, Thursday, launched its streaming service ‘Prime Video’ in Nigeria . According to the company, Nigerians, for the first time…
FG to launch National Plan for Financing Safe Schools
The federal government will, before the end of the 3rd quarter, launch a National Plan for Financing Safe Schools which will clearly outline how Nigeria intends to protect schools and other learning places. Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and…
Makinde inaugurates cassava-based sorbitol factory, firm targets 25,000 jobs
Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, has inaugurated the first cassava-based sorbitol factory in Africa, built by Psaltry International Company Limited in Ado-Awaye, with a promise to intensify infrastructural development to ease the transportation of …
Earth spinning faster than ever
Scientists are saying that the earth is spinning faster than 24 hours. The UK’s National Physical Laboratory has new measurements that show this. A typical day’s length is 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, but researchers notice that in recent years, the Ear…
2023: Why Tinubu is best candidate to salvage Nigeria- BATYON
Ahmed Olajide Oseni, director general of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Youth Orientation Network (BATYON), a group in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, has said that the track record and experience of Tinubu, the party’s presidential c…