Encumbered by the biting economic reality that have taken a heavy toll on the welfare of Nigerians, and particularly, the untamed free falling of the Naira immediately after reunification of the exchange rate by the government, President Bola Tinubu is targeting a $1trn gross domestic product (GDP) within the...
The appointment of Muhammad Abu Ibrahim as Executive Secretary, the National Agriculture Development Fund (NADF) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gotten me excited beyond measure because of the quality, experience, and passion for the development of agriculture in Nigeria of the appointee.
Muhammad has been my business partner for...
Before he settles down for the task ahead,Aminu Maida should take stock of what baggage he is inheriting on the job.
He should not be emotionally carried away with the retinue of Nigerians ,including insiders at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), who will send goodwill messages and making spirited moves...
When the Petroleum Industry Bill was signed into law in July 2021, some of its key objectives were make the NNPC Ltd to operate as a commercial entity and do its business profitably, pay taxes like every other company, and make returns to its shareholders.
Furthermore, a time frame was...
When the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd, then a corporation, set out in the year 2002 to establish a petroleum products retail company as a Corporate Business Unit, it had clear intentions and business objectives.
One of such intentions was to create access to quality white products and services...
Cerebral as Bosun Tijani, Nigeria's Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy Minister, maybe, his 31-page Roadmap for the Telecommunications sector looks ambitious and a dream taken too far.
Nigeria is a very interesting country where there are constant strange policy somersaults.
This is a country described by Edo musician, Osayomore Joseph that...
For the first time in a long while, Imo State recently was in the news for good reasons after the incessant fratricidal attacks on the state and other parts of the South East geopolitical zone by people believed to be unknown gunmen (UGM).
Technology took its pride of place on...
When the announcement of a new broadband plan (2020-2025) was made in 2020, those of us familiar with what broadband meant began to celebrate the life abundance for fast speeds internet connectivity on the way.
Three years after, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has continued to reel out increments of...
Despite the hype around financial inclusion which telecommunications regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) puts at 70%, the controversy surrounding the over N120billion debt owed by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data(USSD) is far from being over.
USSD is the platform for financial transactions by customers of...
All is not well with global development as inadequacies rule the global communities.
Food security is missing.Health care is a big headache especially in developing economies. Access to developement is critically absent as connectivity is not readily available.
Nearly a third of global population has no access to telecommunications especially the...