By Emmanuel Elebeke  Worried by the worsening cases of insecurity in the North West region, the Federal Government has approved the establishment of the Emergency Communications Centre in Zamfara state to help curb insecurity in the state. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami made this know when in a statement in […]

By Juliet Umeh Digital payment platform, Interswitch Group has reaffirmed its pre-existing partnership with the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to enable taxpayers file all Naira denominated tax returns seamlessly. The company said that the Interswitch payment gateway was deployed on FIRS’s new Tax Administration Solution, TaxPro-Max, e-filling platform on 7 June 2021.  The new […]

By Juliet Umeh Online marketplace, Jiji, has reached an agreement to merge operations with tech-enabled automotive trading platform, Cars45 to revolutionise buying and selling of cars in Africa. Under this agreement, the two platforms will merge their operations in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya to create Africa’s number one automotive marketplace for end-users. Jiji also has […]

Africa’s leading rating agency, Global Credit Ratings (GCR) recently upgraded the national scale long-term issuer rating of Nigeria’s largest mobile network operator, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN Nigeria) to AAA and affirmed the national scale short-term rating of A1+, with a stable outlook. These ratings represent the highest possible long-term and short-term grade on GCR’s […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor Developing economies in Africa have been particularly harder hit by the restricted business activity that has come with COVID-induced lockdowns and economic downturns.   SMBs, which make up between 90 percent of businesses on the continent and 94 percent in Nigeria, have particularly been affected by the crisis. MSMEs constitute the […]