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Eighty years ago a largely unreported event took place which would help pave the way for modern air services between Nigeria and the rest of the world. On 9 February 1936 the weekly Imperial Airways’ flight from London to Khartoum connected with another flight to Kano, heralding the start of...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted an Approval-in-Principle to Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS), a subsidiary of Interswitch Group that has a mandate to grow an active Agent Network of 150,000 by 2020. Trading as Quickteller Paypoint, IFIS aims to increase the availability of digital financial services in...

Hotels across Nigeria are set to enjoy a reprieve from some of the major accounting and reconciliation challenges they face with the roll out of a new innovative 'Personal Computer-Point of Sale' (PC-POS) feature on SlimTrader's 'MoBiashara for Hotels' (MFH) platform. Many hotels across Nigeria are faced with the challenge of...

The 4th edition of Nigerian Entertainment Conference, NECLive, is set to hold on the 20th of April 2016, at Landmark Event Centre, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos. Organised annually by Nigerian Entertainment Today, NET, this year's conference is themed "Entertainment Industry As Last Hope For Africa's Largest Economy". At #NECLive4, some of Nigeria's...

  Action Bitters, the popular herbal alcoholic drink with an appetizing aroma now comes in an exciting new look. Action bitters which is a brand of Intercontinental Distillers Limited (IDL),is manufactured from quality and finest blend of herbal and smooth alcoholic mixtures to give you that boost required to make...

  Effyzie Music Group has unveiled Yemi Alade‘s sophomroe album “Mama Africa” via iTunes. She has been engaging her fans on Twitter in the last one week, asking them different question about the new album and promising gifts and money. Expectations from the album are already high and Yemi appears...

  After months of speculation, Samsung Electronics West Africa has announced that its latest flagship phones in its long line of Galaxy devices will be available for pre-registration in Nigeria from today – March 1st 2016. The smartphones on offer are the alluring Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge available in...

Toke Makinwa has recently become the face of Mecran Cosmetics! Her spotless, polished skin tone is a beauty to behold and her dewy fair skin makes her stand out! Mecran Cosmetics is a wide-range cosmetic brand that has mastered the science of skin-lightening and warns against using creams with harmful...

  NEW CATEGORY AIMED AT YOUNG JOURNALISTS HONOURS LATE CNN EXECUTIVE MAGGIE EALES, DRIVING FORCE BEHIND AWARDS CNN International and MultiChoice this week officially launched the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2016 Awards. The competition for African nationals based on the continent welcomes entries from journalists creating content targeting an African...

Kennedy Uzoka, UBA, Group Managing Director At a meeting held at UBA House, the UBA Group Board today approved the appointment of Kennedy Uzoka as the new Group Managing Director, with effect from August 1st, 2016 and subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria.  Mr Uzoka succeeds Phillips Oduoza, who retires on July 31, 2016, after two terms of leading the UBA Group.   Kennedy Uzoka has most...