Africa’s emerging telcos grapple with brand loyalty, infrastructure costs — van Breukelen, CEO, Itemate Solutions
Post AMUGE
April 22, 2024
Africa’s telecommunications ecosystem is a thriving sphere where a select group of telecom titans, including MTN, Airtel, Safaricom, among others stand as beacons of Africa’s economic and social evolution. These telcos have provided connectivity to hundreds of millions of individuals long left in the dark by a lack of robust fixed broadband and fibre connectivity. […]
We do not have enough air traffic controllers — Farouk, NAMA MD
Post AMUGEApril 22, 2024
Ahmed Umar Farouk, managing director, NAMA Ahmed Umar Farouk, an engineer, is managing director, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). In this interview, he speaks about the upgrade of Navaids, including addressing communication and power issues as well as revealing challenges the agency is grappling with. Excerpts: It seems NAMA is taking a new shape and […]
World’s biggest polluting industries must pay fair share for climate
Post AMUGEApril 22, 2024
New task force puts forward global climate levies to raise money for climate-vulnerable communities, says Director of European Climate Foundation Ahead of the meeting in Washington D.C., United States last Wednesday, 17 April 2024 of the International Tax Task Force (ITTF), which was set up at the COP28 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, […]
Telecom plays role in transforming Nigerian businesses, lives, livelihoods
Joy Agwunobi, Mike Ochonma, Onome AmugeNovember 20, 2023
WALE OWOEYE is the CEO of Cedarview Communications Limited, a Lagos-based ICT company that specialises in designing, planning, and implementing innovative technological solutions. The company is also a key player in the broadband space in West Africa, helping to bring high-speed internet access to the region. In this interview with Business A.M.’s Business Editor, MIKE […]
We’ve transformed Just Food from trading company to international manufacturing business – Chairman Ikpobe
Onome AmugeJune 26, 2023
APOLLOS IKPOBE, banker and financial expert with over three decades experience in the banking and finance industry, including stints as executive director, Zenith Bank Plc; deputy managing director, United Bank for Africa Plc, as well as many non- executive directorships, is currently the chairman of Just Food Limited. West Africa’s leading supplier of quality consumables […]
Jim O’Neill, former Goldman Sachs executive, on BRICS, de-dollarisation, global inflation, Nigeria’s resource curse, Brexit
Business a.m.June 21, 2023
By Business A.M. The BRICS 20 years on! In this interview, originally published by IC Intelligence, Jim O’Neill, who as chief economist of Goldman Sachs wrote the paper that gave birth to the acronym BRICS, in conversation with Desné Masie, chief economist, IC Intelligence, speaks on BRICS, de-dollarisation, global inflation and macroeconomic risk, […]
Imo State budgeting process has World Bank endorsement — Commissioner
Saby ElembaMay 16, 2023
CHRISTOPHER OSUALA, two time federal legislator, holds three PhDs. He is a lawyer, as well as a management and financial expert. He sits on the Imo State Executive Council as commissioner for budget, economic planning and statistics. He spoke with SABY ELEMBA on the progress being made in the management of Imo State by […]
Owerri Chamber SME group urges govts to build skills acquisition centres
Saby ElembaMay 1, 2023
By Saby Elemba, in Owerri The Small and Medium Enterprises Group of the Owerri Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (OCCIMA) has urged both state and federal governments to build skills acquisition centres and infrastructure to support the growth of small and medium enterprises in the country. Gerald Nkwekegbu, vice president, SME Contact and […]
South East, left out in federal government’s agriculture plans
Saby ElembaMay 1, 2023
By Saby Elemba, in Owerri VITUS AYO ENWEREM, chairman, All Farmers Association (AFAN), Imo State, in this brief interview with Business A.M., tells SABY ELEMBA that the South East has conveniently been forgotten by the federal government in all its agriculture programmes How much has the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Imo State, […]
ALIM ABUBAKRE: Connecting town and gown for public, private sector leadership
Phillip IsakpaMarch 21, 2023
An academic’s quest to see that theory meets practice in its application in the real world of organisation management and leadership in the public and private sectors; ensuring that the challenges of the present are understood in their modern nature and characteristics, and that the right theories are applied in finding solutions to them, offers […]