Month: November 2021

Mouka’s winning Streak Continues, Bags Laurels at Consumers Choice Awards 2021

Mouka, Nigeria’s leading brand of mattresses, pillows and other bedding products has continued to blaze the trail in Nigeria’s bedding industry. This is in addition to dominating the media space with its new thematic campaign, “Get The Mouka For You”, featuring A list Nollywood Superstar Sola Sobowale and viral comedy duo Emmanuella and Mark Angel.…

How Nigeria can Maximise eGovernment – Huawei

The Global Chief Public Services Industry Scientist, Enterprise Business Group of Huawei Technologies Co Limited, Mr Hong-Eng Koh, has said that the idea of eGovernance was to satisfy the unwilling customers. Koh made the submission at the Nigeria eGovernment Summit 2021 in Lagos themed ‘eGovernment Adoption in Nigeria: Opportunities and Challenges’.  “Basically, eGovernment is to…

Senate Moves Against Importation Of Fake Goods Into Nigeria

A bill seeking to prohibit the importation of fake goods into Nigeria on Wednesday scaled second reading in the Senate. Such fake goods targeted by the bill are unauthorized or illegally manufactured, reproduced, altered or distributed products associated with abuse of recognized intellectual property right, such as trademark, patents, design or copyright in goods. Among…

Huawei to Help Address Africa’s Energy Poverty through Digital Power

The fight to tackle Africa’s energy poverty is receiving support through the provision of digital enablers that will boost sufficiency. Currently energy poverty is a serious problem in sub-Saharan Africa with statistics from International Energy Agency (IEA) indicating that over 580 million people in the region lacked access to electricity in 2019. In Nigeria for…

Orientation: DG Warns Prospective Corps Members Against Fake Covid-19 Documents

Prospective Corps Members for the 2021 Batch ‘C’ Stream Two Orientation Course have been warned against coming to camp with fake COVID-19 document for registration. NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim gave this warning today during a live webinar jointly hosted by the National Youth Service Corps and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control in preparation…

FG Launches Enhanced e-Passport in UK

The Federal Government on Tuesday restated its commitment to improve passport application process for Nigerians at home and in diaspora, as it launches the new enhanced passport. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, gave the assurance on Tuesday at the official Rollout of the Enhanced e-Passport at the Nigerian High Commission in London, United Kingdom.…

FIRS Fraud: How N2bn was siphoned Through Duty Tour Allowance – EFCC

The ongoing trial of Emmanuella Eteta Ita, Head of Stakeholders Unit of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, and Surestart School Limited continued on November 22, 2021 before Justice F. Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC presenting two more witnesses. The fourth prosecuting witness, Ijeoma…