By Alex C MoboFree.com, a new social marketplace in Nigeria cum Africa, is making significant inroads Nigeria, Africa’s largest online population, with 56 million internet users, targeting Nigerian brands, as it seeks to boost sales and advertising revenues. The Company, few months ago, reported that Nigerians are selling unused items worth $526m on MoboFree.com, with high expectations that the total volume of items for sale in its marketplace will likely reach $1.5bn by 2015. Evaldas Brazys, vice president, business development for MoboFree, said, Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by GDP, is critical to its global business plan. “Nigeria is the largest…
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By Alex C MTN, Nigeria’s biggest telecommunications network, says that the total investment ploughed into network expansion initiatives, including fixed assets and facilities, over the last 13 years of operation is about N2.5trn ($15bn). The telecoms company is however continuing its push for reasonably priced internet service for the entirety of the country’s populace, following the recent development of a massive fibre-optic data network. MTN, the emerging market focused operator, which is also gearing up for license renewal by 2016 in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by GDP, is partnering with Alcatel-Lucent to open up Nigeria, to the benefits of ultra-broadband…
Dear Dorothy, I am in my early thirties and have a nine-month-old daughter. My husband and I both work full-time but he doesn’t seem to think he needs to help me with our baby or with some of the chores at home. He also seems to think I am to be at his beck and call attending to his every need. I am well aware that our grandmothers, with limited opportunities available for them in the workplace, singlehandedly looked after the domestic space. But times have changed. Most couples need the dual income to cope with the cost of modern…
The government of South Africa is about to set up a special tribunal to prosecute and bring to book those who have sold or rented out free housing that they received from government. Minister of Human Settlements Lindiwe Sisulu who disclosed this said her department of liaising with that of Justice to establish the tribunals, adding that the sale or rental of free housing defeats the purpose of the government largesse which goes to only blacks above 40 years of age. “Our intention in giving free houses was to right the wrongs of the past and make sure that we…
In international auditing circles, Nigeria is a pariah that nobody wants to touch with a long pole, Mr Samuel Ukura, Auditor-General of the Federation, has disclosed This because Nigeria is about the only country in the world without a “functional audit act”. Addressing a joint public hearing of the Public Accounts and Justice Committees at National Assembly in Abuja November 4, on a bill to repeal the Audit Act 1956, Ukura condemned the non-existence of an auditing act in Nigeria “The 1956 colonial provision was removed from our laws in 2004 thus making Nigeria the only country in the world…
President Goodluck Jonathan has declared his intention to seek re-election in the 2015 presidential election. The president who made the declaration today at the Eagle Square, Abuja, enumerated his achievements in the areas of transportation, water supply, electricity, agriculture, industry, security, healthcare, and more, since assuming office in 2011. “Before the advent of this administration, the railway system was virtually dead. Today, we have revived the railway system,” he said. “In the first quarter of 2015, it would be possible for Nigerians to live in Kaduna and work in Abuja, with minimal transport cost.” “Our ports now…
The Peoples Republic of Tanzania is 18th on a list of 22 high-burden tuberculosis countries in the world, according to the World Health Organization, as per statistics in a medical journal on clinical infectious disease, released last December. Also according to the World Health Organization, every year 9 million people are infected by the disease, while 2 million of them die every year. Meanwhile “four cases of Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis” have been discovered by doctors at the PD Hinduja National Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai, India Questioned by journalist on the discovery, Tanzania Health and Social Welfare Minister,…
Top entertainers such as Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji and Asa are spearheading the Future Awards Africa campaign against Ebola$ The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has announced they will be leading influences for its global campaign to pool 1 million young Africans to act against Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The #StopEbola campaign will be led by TFAA Young Person of the Year 2013, Ashish Thakkar and Africa’s leading creative icons – Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Paris-based Asa Elemide. The #StopEbola campaign will get young Africans to support the World Health Organization by donating social media updates…
Celebrated comedian, Ayo Makun known as AY is enjoying this season. He has moved into his Multimillion Naira edifice inside the Lekki axis of Lagos State. The actor cum comedian whose movie, 30 Days in Atlanta, is still making waves and raking awards both home and abroad moved into the tastefully furnished apartments in October 2014 secretly. The structure was a two year project in one of Haven homes gated estate at Lekki in Lagos state. It is within the vicinity of 2face’s apartment. On Tuesday, November 11,2014, the award winning act confirmed the development and admitted the interior was…
Ogbonnaya Kanu, also known as Foto Dadi is one man set on breaking limits. In 2012, he became the first Nigerian biker to ride solo from Lagos,Nigeria to Austria, riding through France, Germany, Austria, and Italy; and in mid-October, he embarked on another solo trip from South Africa to Lagos. The trip was initially meant to be a round trip, but with the Ebola scourge, and borders being closed, Kanu had to make the decision to travel to South Africa by air, and ride back to Lagos. With this trip, Kanu has again broken more limits by becoming the first…