‘Our goal is to supply 20% of solar panels used in Nigeria’

Solar panel assembling in Nigeria is still in its infancy in Nigeria as major solar companies are content with importing the various components from Asia and Europe. But Auxano Solar Ltd is a departure from the usual. It built the first solar panel assembling plant in West Africa and has since then caught the eyes […]

‘Dearth of R&D hindering growth in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector’

Mayowa Afe is the President, Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN) – an independent umbrella group of training services providers in the oil and gas industry established by the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act in 2010 with the purpose of building local human capacity. In this interview with AYOBAMI ADEDINNI, […]

Kemi Adeosun: We have recovered N13.8bn, secured four convictions under the whistleblowing policy

kemi Adeosun

Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s minister of finance, at the weekend spoke on sundry issues including the whistleblower policy, VAIDS, IPPIS, the 2017 and 2018 budgets, as well as fielding questions from the media on the economy and fiscal operations management of the government. Excerpts: Whistleblower policy and tax evasion recoveries The whistleblower policy is one of […]

‘Losing monetary independence is not worth it if trade is less than 10%’

Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano and a former Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, fielded questions bordering on the state of industrialization, integration, investments, and finance on the African continent at sideline of the 2018 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group in Busan, Korea. Business a.m.’s ADESOLA AFOLABI who monitored the televised […]

Government can woo private sector by executing gas infrastructure blueprint

As the world embraces diversified fuel sources, sophisticated energy facilities and different sources of clean energy, growth in the Nigerian gas industry is happening at a very slow pace, and the country is lagging behind. Poor implementation of the Gas Master Plan, inadequate gas infrastructure, and ineffective pricing, the key issues still persist. Chijioke Nwaozuzu, […]

Every human being is a millionaire, but many die penniless – Awosika

Businesses across the globe are often times plagued with the hard decisions bordering on expansion, customer’s passion and avoiding financial stagnation. These decisions for business owners in entertainment may be more profound as issues other than running cost and meeting deliverables compete with showing up, showbiz and looking good to negatively impact bottom lines of […]

Nigeria operates uneconomic, illiquid gas, power sectors

Dada Thomas, Managing director of Frontier Oil limited and serving president of the Nigeria Gas Association spoke to business a.m. on the investment climate in the Nigerian gas and power sector, and the myriad of challenges operators face, from pricing to fiscal laws governing operations in the sector, as well as the way forward to […]

We see massive collaboration among telcos in Nigeria

About three weeks ago, a Canadian, Miriam Tuerk, managing director of Clear Blue Technologies of Canada, placed a call to business a.m. to announce that she was coming to Nigeria and would like an exclusive interview with this newspaper. Being only five weeks in the Nigeria print media market, it came as a surprise that […]