Archive For: The Crunch
07 Mar 2014 Just in time for International Women’s Day, the Central Bank of Nigeria has earmarked 132 billion naira, about 60% of its N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) to women entrepreneurs in the country. Ventures Africa tells us that this information was made public ... Read More
07 Mar 2014 Founder of Kanu Heart Foundation Kanu Nwankwo has undergone corrective heart surgery at the Cleveland Hospital, Ohio in the United States of America. However, fans and well-wishers can heave a sigh of relief as the surgery has been confirmed to be successful. Co-ordinator of the Kanu Heart ... Read More
03 Mar 2014 Nigeria continues to step up its agricultural transformation and today’s focus is groundnuts. ThisDay Live reports that the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said Nigeria will return to massive production and processing of groundnut pyramids, with production expected to add N24 billion to the country’s Gross Domestic ... Read More
03 Mar 2014 The Zambezian shares with us that Tigo, a subsidiary of the international telecommunications and media company Millicom has announced the launch of a pioneering cross-border Mobile Money remittance service between Tanzania and Rwanda. We’re told that the service was launched simultaneou’sly in Kigali and Dar-es-Salaam in the presence of Rwandan High Commissioner ... Read More
03 Mar 2014 Kenya is determined to make Africa affordable for us all in 2014. Ventures Africa informs us that Kenyan Vehicle Manufacturer (KVM) has revealed that it is currently working on the assembly of Africa’s cheapest car in its Thika plant and ‘expects the vehicle to be made commercially available ... Read More
27 Feb 2014 Citizens of Ghana are still commenting on a rather controversial decision to ban the use of popular slang “tweaa” from parliamentary proceedings. The word is an Akan interjection used mainly to express contempt for a statement and had started to gain widespread use in parliament, with members of parliament using the word ... Read More
27 Feb 2014 It appears that cars will be news in Nigeria for a long time. ThisDay Live announces that the Nigerian federal government has commenced onsite inspection of local automotive assembly plants across the country as part of the implementation plan of the Nigeria Automotive Industry Development Plan. The ... Read More
25 Feb 2014 Social Media Week Lagos is now over but one group of people will probably remember it as the week their lives changed. PrepClass, an online portal that helps students prepare for popular examinations with an initial focus on the Nigerian JAMB exams, have won the maiden edition ... Read More
20 Feb 2014 ThisDay Live shares with us the great news that the University of Benin Teaching Hospital has successfully recorded a breakthrough in a procedure called “Total Red Blood Cell Exchange.” The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Mike Ibadin, who disclosed this to journalists at a press ... Read More
20 Feb 2014 And in another instalment of the ongoing saga relating to BafanaBafana coach Gordon Igesund, the embattled football coach can heave a sigh of relief as he will be holding onto his job…at least for now. Top members of the South African Football Association met with him recently ... Read More
