CBN’s intervention to enable telecos access I&E window now paramount – Teniola, ATCON President

April 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

March 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

February 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 […]

Better funding will boost deep water drilling fluids engineering in Nigeria

January 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 […]

Improve bandwidth and telcos will deliver more to the Nigerian market – Owoeye, MD/CEO, Cedarview Communications

November 25, 2019

Says VAS operators crave policy change to ease pains   WALE OWOEYE is managing director/CEO, Cedarview Communications Limited, a fast growing ICT firm based in Lagos State, Nigeria, but with presence in Port Harcourt and Abuja. The company also maintains strategic alliances in Asia, Europe and the US. In this interview with business a.m.’s OMOBAYO […]

CBN’s retention of MPR pushing riskier investments to the edge – Kurfi, CEO, APT Securities & Funds

September 30, 2019

Mallam Kasimu Garba Kurfi is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the APT Securities and Funds Limited, and a prominent player in the Nigerian capital market. Kurfi exclusively spoke to OMOBAYO AZEEZ of Business a.m. on Friday. Among other issues, he addressed the state of the economy, capital market’s rise and fall, government’ budget and […]