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Jonathan leaves for G8 summit in Canada

Jun. 22 | Office of the President, Abuja - President Goodluck  Jonathan will, at the invitation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, leave Abuja tomorrow Wednesday June 23, to participate in the 2010 Summit of the Group of Eight Industrialized...

CCAfrica/CCA’s “G20 Business Leaders: Partnering with Africa’s Dynamic Markets” Conference

Jun. 17 | Global Leaders Convene to Spotlight Latest Investment and Trade Opportunities in Africa What: The Canadian Council on Africa (CCAfrica) and The Corporate Council on Africa’s (CCA) G20 Business Leaders: Partnering with Africa’s Dynamic Markets conference....

Oando to float local fuel arm by Q3

Jun. 15 | Diversified Nigerian energy company Oando Plc hopes to raise $250 million by floating a minority stake in its local fuel retail arm on the Lagos bourse by September. The sale of up to 49 percent of the country’s biggest fuel retailer, valued...

Vitest Signs Agreement with Red Cross Nigeria to Provide 2 Million Rapid HIV Tests

Jun. 15 | Halifax - MedMira Inc., a developer of rapid diagnostic technology and solutions,today announced that the Company’s strategic business development partner for Africa, Vitest AG, has signed an exclusive agreement with the Nigerian Red Cross...

Committee Submits Due-Diligence Report on NITEL Bidders

Jun. 14 | Bloomberg -A committee conducting further due diligence on prospective bidders for state-owned Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan, the Bureau of Public Enterprises said. Chukwuma Nwokoh, a spokesman for...

Pres. Jonathan to participate at G20 business leaders conference in Toronto

Jun. 10 | PRESS RELEASE: Country Leaders in Town for the 2010 G20 Meetings Join Representatives from Leading Canadian and U.S. Businesses Including PricewaterhouseCoopers; Bombardier Inc.; SNC-Lavalin; CRC Sogema; Rio Tinto Alcan; Standard Bank; and Intellipharmaceutics...

IT geeks called for tougher security measure to stem cyber crime in Nigeria

Jun. 3 | ITAfrica- Experts have called for improved security systems to stem the menace of cyber crime in Nigeria. Experts who spoke at the just concluded CTO forum in Lagos, said improved security was a prerequisite for wooing investors both locally and internationally,...

National carrier undergoes another rebranding, now Air Nigeria

Jun. 3 | Nigerian tycoon vowed to relaunch the country’s troubled Nigerian Eagle Airlines giving it its second rebranding in a year and pledging to double its fleet of aircraft within months. Jimoh Ibrahim, a Harvard law graduate whose interests include...

Drop in international oil prices forces Nigeria to review budget

Jun. 1 | President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday asked the parliament to reduce the benchmark oil price of 67 dollars on which the 2010 budget was based, because of falling oil prices in the world market. In April, Jonathan signed into law a 4.6 trillion naira...

How to build a global brand

May. 26 | Forty years ago, there were only a handful of truly “global brands” and they were made up of only the biggest corporations — Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, IBM, Shell. Then a rash of upstarts came along, such as Nike, Microsoft,...