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Technology

Meta exposes content creators in Lagos to metaverse

Meta (Facebook) has introduced content creators in Lagos to the various technologies that are paving the road to the metaverse. Celebrating their impact and creativity, the social media platform stressed the need for them to prepare for the revolution coming up in the technology space. In attendance were a mix of content and technical creators, who represent a variety of interests from Music…
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Technology

Appknox partners CED Technologies on mobile app security

Appknox, an enterprise mobile application security solution firm and its African partner, CED Technologies have created awareness on the need for consumers to be security conscious in app usage. Speaking at a webinar with the theme, “How an insecure mobile app can tarnish…
Technology

Wentors launches mentorship programme for women in technology

Understanding that women in technology would need to position themselves properly to maximize global shift, Wentors is preparing women in technology for the multicultural and multiracial future of work. A global community of women in technology led by EduAbasi Chukwunweike and Unoma Adeyemi, Wentors said it is committed to increasing the rate of women’s participation and retention in technology…
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Banking

Serving new cardholders with more PoS terminals

Digital banking is the new route that financial service providers and regulators are travelling to offer seamless services to the banked, and encourages the unbanked and underbanked to join the financial services net. Two channels have for long dominated the digital banking…
Banking

Unity Bank posts N27b gross earnings in six months

Unity Bank Plc has posted gross earnings of N27.6 billion for its half-year results, representing a growth of 17 per cent year-on-year. In its unaudited half-year financials submitted to the Nigeria Exchange Group Limited, the bank also made significant improvements across…
Uncategorized

Policeman’s son absconds with lady’s Benz, $700 Bitcoin

A Lagos-based 28-year-old man, Damilola Areje, has allegedly absconded with a 2019 Mercedes Benz GLE 43, worth N52 million, and $700 worth of Bitcoin belonging to a 32-year-old businesswoman, Nneka Chiemelu, who is into real estate and construction. According to Miss Chiemelu, Damilola, an acquaintance whose father, Inspector Adegbola Areje is a policeman, allegedly stole her car from her…
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Energy

Addax workers start strike, oil production sheds 22,000bpd

Workers of Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria have embarked on strike in protest against anti-labour practices by the firm, causing possible reduction in Nigeria’s crude oil production by 22,000 barrels per day. Addax, owned by China’s Sinopec Group, has four Oil Mining…
Real Estate

Three years advance rent deadly to economy – Fashola

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday declared that the collection of two to three years’ rent in advance by property owners was causing more harm than good to Nigeria’s economy. Fashola, who intensified the push for monthly rent payments across the country, charged state governments to look at ways to make the payment of rent easier and more comfortable for both…
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