Mouka, Nigeria’s leading brand of mattresses, pillows and other bedding products, recently announced its change of ownership to Dolidol, the market leader in Francophone Africa based out of Morocco. According to the CEO of Mouka, Mr Raymond Murphy, this transaction sets the scene for bigger and greater things for the Mouka brand with this affiliation…
By Adewole Kehinde Frequent attacks on oil pipelines are worrisome due to its devastating environmental effects. It destroyed arable land for agriculture and caused economic losses in terms of revenue to the government. The sabotage of oil installations and the resultant repairs of pipelines have depleted Nigeria’s income around N898.93bn in 2021 according to a…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun says his administration is working towards ensuring that the state takes advantage of its oil rich deposit and becomes an oil producing state. Abiodun gave this position during the Convocation Lecture he delivered at the 2nd and 3rd convocation ceremony of the Mountain Top University with the topic, “Quest…
Huawei’s 5G Core portfolio has been rated as the “leader” among all the 5G core products from the world’s mainstream telecom equipment vendors by GlobalData in its recently released report entitled 5G Mobile Core: Competitive Landscape Assessment. GlobalData is a world-renowned data analytics and consulting company in the ICT industry. It provides expertise on market…
In its efforts to discourage environmental pollution and ensure healthy living, the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), in collaboration with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), has organised public destruction of hazardous drugs at the LASEPA office Alausa, Ikeja. Speaking at the event, the Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat…
For the sixth year running, startups have nominated the corporate organisations they believed to be most active in terms of open innovation for the prestigious annual Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Launched by Mind the Bridge under the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership initiative in 2016, the Awards have been scaled at global level thanks to…
Huawei has become a founding member of the Equipment Vendor Program (EVP) of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), in an effort to actively improve global Internet security. MANRS is a global initiative fostered by the Internet Society (ISOC). It aims to provide crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing threats, such…
The Senate on Wednesday passed an aggregate expenditure of N17,126,873,917,692 trillion naira as budget for the 2022 fiscal year. The passage followed the consideration of a report by the Appropriations Committee on the 2022 Appropriations Bill. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Barau Jibrin, said the revenue projection for the 2022 budget was predicated on the…
The telemedicine solution for COVID-19 developed by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital based on Huawei’s 5G network solutions has been awarded GSMA GLOMO ‘Best Innovation for COVID-19 Pandemic Response & Recovery’. This award shows the industry’s recognition of 5G smart healthcare for its role in helping combat the virus. The judges of the award have commented…
No less than 30,000 additional young Nigerians will gain access to digital skills training as part of the benefits of a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy and Huawei Technologies (Nigeria) Limited. This was disclosed by the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami during the signing…