NITDA has aided growth of Nigeria’s tech ecosystem — DG, Kashifu Abdullahi
Omobayo Azeez
July 28, 2020
AfCFTA will offer net software export gains KASHIFU INUWA ABDULLAHI is young, and a passionate technology enthusiast, by practice and certifications. He was appointed on August 20, 2019 to head the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). All of nearly 12 months have passed like a flash. As Director-General of NITDA, ABDULLAHI gives what can […]
Adopt-a-Healthcare-Facility Programme (ADHFP): An interview with Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Chairman, ABCHealth
Businessam StaffJuly 27, 2020
African governments alone cannot tackle the deep challenges in the continent’s health sector. For success to be guaranteed, Africa’s private sector must be engaged and involved. Indeed, some of the greatest progress towards the health related Millennium Development Goals would not have been possible without support from the Private Sector – in the last 15 […]
Ozigbo: My mission is to make Anambra most competitive economy in Nigeria
Realnews MagazineJuly 21, 2020
Valentine Ozigbo, the quintessential technocrat, banker, businessman and hospitality expert, is the immediate past president and group CEO of Transcorp Plc. But he has a different mission now. He is working his way to become the governor of Anambra State, the state that Peter Obi, also a banker, once governed. But first, he is contesting to win […]
Government must create agric market, use private sector in value chain to build the market – Elechi
Dikachi FranklinJune 10, 2020
FG not ready to make agriculture thrive Inside Vintage Farms & Products Limited at Elele, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State, MIKE ELECHI, community leader, administrator, industrialist, and a commercial farmer, sits as Chairman/CEO of Vintage Group of Companies. When Business A.M.’s DIKACHI FRANKLIN met with him recently, ELECHI spoke on a number of issues, […]
CBN’s intervention to enable telecos access I&E window now paramount – Teniola, ATCON President
Omobayo AzeezApril 27, 2020
OLUSOLA TENIOLA is the President of Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON). In this interview with Business A.M.’s OMOBAYO AZEEZ, Teniola dissects investment, technical, regulatory issues, among others, in the telecoms sector vis-à-vis economic disruption triggered by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with extended concerns on what a post COVID-era will look like for […]
Opportunity beckons: Nigeria has no single perfume bottles manufacturer
Ben EguzozieMarch 23, 2020
Euphoria Scents wants to become Nigeria’s perfume company of choice VALERIE YOUNG-HARRY is arguably Nigeria’s first and only perfume compounding manufacturer to date. A scents aficionado from childhood, being in love with scents, especially those made from natural plant-based ingredients that exclude harmful chemicals, thereby making them aromatherapy. Young-Harry, a management consultant and member of […]
Nigerians not ready to pay price for development – Yele Okeremi, CEO of PFS
Omobayo AzeezMarch 16, 2020
YELE OKEREMI, founder and chief executive officer, Precise Financial Systems (PFS), who also doubles as the national president of Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), sat down with Business a.m.’s OMOBAYO AZEEZ in this interview, to dissect the state of the Nigerian software market in relation to local content patronage. He offers insight on […]
Nigeria’s transition to integrated reporting key to FDI attraction, says Innocent Okwuosa, NIRC Chair
Omobayo AzeezFebruary 10, 2020
Recently, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) inaugurated Nigeria Integrated Reporting Committee (NIRC) and made Innocent Okwuosa its chairman. In this interview with OMOBAYO AZEEZ, Innocent draws the direct correlation between adoption of integrated reporting (IR) standard in Nigeria and inflow of foreign investments in the country, and how the IR is the […]
Unregistered operators killing Nigeria’s courier sector – Okey Ubah, ANCO President
Omobayo AzeezJanuary 27, 2020
Okey Ubah assumed office as the president of the Association of Nigeria Courier Operators (ANCO) in May, 2019. He reveals in this interview with OMOBAYO AZEEZ, the various bottlenecks limiting the courier services industry from blossoming to its full potential; his experience in the office since investiture, as well as prospects for operators in the […]
Better funding will boost deep water drilling fluids engineering in Nigeria
Kenneth AforJanuary 20, 2020
ADEDAPO ADESINA is a University of Ibadan petroleum engineering graduate. He is a trained drilling fluids engineer with over 19 years professional experience in domestic oil and gas exploration and production operations. He currently works with one of the multinational oil and gas companies. In this interview with KENNETH AFOR, he provided insight on the […]