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Kipochi launches Africa’s first bitcoin wallet with MPESA integration
A Kenyan company, Kipochi Limited has launched Africa’s first Bitcoin wallet with MPESA integration. Through Kipochi, Kenyans will be able to send and receive BitCoin and convert it to and from an...
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Revolving Credit Scheme: 30,000 benefited – Gov. Ahmed
By Olarotimi Oshin Over 30,000 micro, small and medium scale enterprises including artisans in Kwara State have benefited from the State Government’s N250million revolving credit scheme. The State...
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Photo news: Registration of blocked Sims in Port Harcourt
People queueing in the rain to register their blocked SIMs in Port Harcourt…photo:NAN © anu for Royal Times of Nigeria Newspaper, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Leave A...
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Photo news: News conference on investment potentials of Bayelsa in Yenagoa
Director-General, Bayelsa Investment Promotion Agency, Ms Ruth Muray-Bruce (L), addressing a news conference in Yenagoa on the investment potential of the state. With her is the Information Officer of...
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Kwara Govt urged to finance all microfinance banks
By Olarotimi Oshin An appeal has gone to the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, to partner and finance all microfinance banks in the state in terms of Public Private Partnership (PPP). The...
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NCS Apapa Area 1 Command generates N22bn revenue in June
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area 1 Command, on Tuesday said it generated N22 billion in June, up from the N19.8 billion it recorded in May. Mr Emmanuel Ekpa, the Public Relations Officer...
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Oando to build N16bn IPPs for Lagos, Abuja Airports
An indigenous oil company, Oando Plc, has concluded discussion with the federal government to provide long-term, uninterrupted power supply to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos...
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Over $300 billion laundered in ECOWAS countries, says GIABA
Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), on Tuesday said that over US$300 billion (about N45 trillion), had been laundered across ECOWAS countries since their...
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First Bank signs $100m SME facility agreement with China Bank
In its bid to boost lending to small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria, and also stimulate economic growth in the country, Nigeria’s Best Banking Brand, First Bank of Nigeria Limited today signed...
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Sanusi: Biometric authentication of ATMs, PoS to commence in 2015
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Tuesday declared that the biometric authentication of Point of Sales (PoS) terminals and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs)...
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Cooking gas scarcity bites harder
The scarcity of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) has worsened in Lagos and Ogun states as a result of the lack of supply from the Nigerian LNG Limited, the major supplier of the product in the...
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New NFC Boss Danjuma Dadu promises to combat piracy
The newly-appointed chief executive of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Danjuma Dadu has promised to combat piracy in Nigeria’s film industry. The NFC boss made this promise during an interactive...
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Photo news: Inauguration of intra-city mass transit buses in Kaduna
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Photo news: Inauguration of Wincor Nixdorf’s office in Lagos
Left: Regional State Director, Africa, Wincor Nixdorf, Mr Peter Waydich; Consular-General, Federal Republic of Germany, Lagos Office, Mr Von Den Driesch; Managing Director, Wincor Nixdorf, Mr Eckard...
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Rivers Impeachment crisis: PENGASSAN threatens strike over safety
The recent violent action by members of the state House of Assembly has caused a ripple effect now reaching the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) who on Thursday...
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FG awards N300bn road contract to Chinese firm
The Nigeria government has awarded a contract of over N300 billion to Chinese construction companies for the extension of the Keffi/Lafia dual carriage way through Markurdi to Oturkpo, up to Ninth...
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CIBN to deepen competence in banking industry
President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, Mr. Segun Aina President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, Mr. Segun Aina, has disclosed that the institute is set to...
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SAIPEM fined €600,000 for bribing Nigerian officials
A court in Milan has fined Saipem 600,000 euros ($780,000) and ordered the confiscation of 24.5 million euros worth of assets after Thursday finding Italy’s biggest oil services company by...
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S&P 500 erases loss as Bernanke eases stimulus concern
U.S. equities recouped $1 trillion of share value that was erased in the last seven weeks, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke pledged to preserve stimulus and stocks rallied on signs of...
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‘Ban rendered 6m Okada riders jobless’
The Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) says over six million of its members have been rendered jobless due to the ban imposed on the operation of...
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