Skye Bank Plc has launched into the Nigerian financial market the first naira denominated Master-card Verve which can be used to make payments across multiple channels like the Automated Teller Machines, Point of Sales terminals, internet, telephones, among others.

THE scoreboard between OBJ/Atiku and Yar’dua/Jonathan’s regimes is what was loudly presented to the PDP presidential primaries delegates at the Eagles Square on January 13, 14, 2011. It is heart-warming that Nigerian politicians are learning gradually and in no distant time may no more be taken for a ride. The Yar’Adua/Goodluck government may be far from the best we had hoped for but in comparison with those very sickening eight years of OBJ/Atiku, it is better. And those delegates said so with their votes.

IT was a story of a man who came, saw and conquered. Indeed not everyone is that lucky on first attempt. But Shekarau did, as majority of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP delegates elected him as their presidential flagbearer at the party’s National Convention and primaries at the Eagle Square in Abuja, penultimate week.

Etisalat Nigeria, last week formally unveiled a repackaged and reloaded Easy Cliq into the Nigerian telecommunication market. The Easy Cliq package, according to Etisalat, is specially designed to cater for the needs and lifestyle of youth market segment.

As competition continues to dictate the pace of tariff billings for operators in the Nigeria telecom sector, Airtel Nigeria has ones again announced another innovative package aimed at reducing cost and time spent in recharging GSM phones.

About 11 indigent Nigerians who benefitted from MTN intervention scheme were last week presented to the public by MTN Foundation.

Considering that anywhere in the world where mobile banking or mobile money is to be launched, the major headache is always how to get all the users key into a compatible mobile phone to carry it on, Nigeria may also break another ground in mobile money when it is finally launched here.

WITH the concurrence of the Senate, the ongoing voters’ compilation exercise, which began on January 15 and initially scheduled to terminate on January 29 would be extended for four weeks.

Effectiveness and Cost Advantage of IP Surveillance SolutionsNetworked IP camera systems have cost advantages, as the required wiring is less expensive. Especially the fact that IP networks can be used for purposes of other data transmission, such as email, file transfers etc.

The campaign organisation of Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Mr. Timi Alaibe, Tuesday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies to beef security to check what it described as the importation of mercenaries who neither reside in communities in the state nor are qualified to vote but are being registered amidst protests from the locals.