Three submissions – Nala, Virtual Identity and Wallet.ng have been announced as the winners of the 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge competition. All 11 finalists were officially inducted into the Ecobank Fintech Fellowship programme to explore commercial partnerships with the pan-African banking giant, held in Lome, Togo. Nala, from Tanzania, ...
PHOTO: Former UN-habitat Director, Prof. Oyebanji Oyeyinka; Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo receiving the management of NetDragon Websoft Company, a Chinese-based digital technology company led by Mr Dejian Liu, Chairman of NetDragon & the Vice Chairman, Dr. Simon Leung, at the State House, Abuja. A global leader in building ...
THE Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande,said the Federal Government had conveyed to FIFA a letter recognising Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the substantive board of the federation. Akande, who tweeted this on his tweeter account, said that the Pinnick-led NFF ...
NIGERIA’S Under-20 Women’s team have crashed out of the ongoing Women’s World Cup in France. The Spanish team beat the falconets, 2-1 to advance to the semi-final stage of the competition. Spain scored the first two goals of the match in the first half before Nigeria’s Peace Efih responded ...
APPLE became the first private company to surpass $1 trillion in stock market value Thursday following its latest surge after reporting strong quarterly earnings. Shares of Apple briefly hit $207.05 in late-morning trading, before retreating somewhat. The gains came after the iPhone maker reported strong earnings late Tuesday that ...
Ibeanu Chike Chamberlain, Managing Partner, Zdesigns and Development Consulting (left); Simon Bromfield, Territory Manager Africa, Autodesk Inc.; Vijay Raina, Sr. Technical Sales Specialist – AEC, Autodesk; Louis Iwegbuna, Nigeria Business Development Manager, Autodesk Inc,; Dolapo Ojelabi, Industry Specialist, Ideate Technologies; at Autodesk’s Future Forum, Nigeria Autodesk Inc., a leader ...
PHOTO: New York Times The first France goal came off a Croatian’s head. The second was scored with the aid of the Argentine referee, and became the first video-assistant-reviewed goal in World Cup history. But the next two — hard low shots by the young French stars Paul Pogba ...
Pinnick FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, says the world football ruling body recognises only Amaju Pinnick as president of Nigeria Football Federation, and will not accept any outside interference in NFF’s affairs. Infantino, while responding to questions at a press conference in Moscow on Friday, said Pinnick was duly elected ...
PHOTO: Skysport NOVAK Djokovic insists it’s only fair that he should play his Wimbledon quarter-final on Centre Court on Wednesday, handing the All England Club a dilemma over relegating Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal to Court One. Despite being a three-time champion, Djokovic has featured just once on Centre ...
STAN Wawrinka’s poor run at recent Grand Slams continued on Thursday when the Swiss lost 7-6(7) 6-3 7-6(6) in the Wimbledon second round against Italian, Thomas Fabbiano. Wawrinka, winner of three Grand Slams, trailed by two sets overnight but was 6-5 ahead in the third when play resumed in ...