MTN Group has announced the appointment of Troopti Desai as Group Executive: Tax, effective 13 September 2021. Troopti is an admitted attorney and has extensive experience in the fields of Labour Law, Immigration Law, Corporate Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions Tax, Tax Incentives, Corporate Governance, Legal and Finance, as well as Tax policy and Revenue Authority engagement. She joins MTN from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), where she was a Partner in the Corporate Tax department, responsible for managing various forms of Tax Risk for multinationals and SA-listed clients across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Prior to PWC, Troopti was the Head of Tax for SSA…
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The Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Malam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has applauded the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) for launching its Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) Platform. The EDMS launched at the NIS Headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday is a key component of any digital transformation strategy and information governance effort, which uses automated techniques to transfer files electronically, manage records regardless of format, maintenance, use and disposition of records. Abdullahi noted that the NIS is lucky to have a visionary leader like the Comptroller-General, Muhammad Babandede, whom he described as a game-changer, who has the focus to move the…
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Google Cloud has announced the appointment of Niral Patel as Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Johannesburg, Niral will be responsible for leading Google Cloud’s business across Sub-Saharan Africa. Niral’s brief shows that he will have overall responsibility for the company’s sales strategy and continued development of its go-to-market sales operations. He will be focused on supporting the growth and scale of Google Cloud customers across a variety of industries. Niral brings more than 20 years of tech sales leadership to this role and joins Google Cloud from Oracle, where he was the Managing Director for South Africa. Prior to…
To commemorate its 20th anniversary, and express its appreciation to its subscribers, MTN Nigeria has said that 20 customers will be gifted brand new Honda HRVs. In addition, the Telco will be giving free airtime and data to all its customers, while 68.9 million subscribers received 200MB of data, and their first call of the day was free for up to five minutes. Karl Toriola, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MTN Nigeria, said the 20-year journey has not been the company’s alone. “Ours has been a classic case of ‘together in progress,’ and we are thankful to all Nigerians for standing…
Chairman, Zinox Group and a Serial digital entrepreneur, Leo Stan Ekeh, has been honoured with the highly coveted Forbes Best of Africa Leading Tech Icon Award. Ekeh was conferred with the prestigious award on Friday, August 6, 2021. The well-deserved accolade marks the latest in a long list of credible local and international awards and recognitions received by Ekeh for his over three decades of leadership and pioneering entrepreneurship in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space in Africa, as well as his many enduring philanthropic and humanitarian legacies. The Zinox boss was singled out for founding the most integrated…
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Spotify has introduced Sylvia Saru, popularly known as Ssaru, as the latest artiste to join its EQUAL Music Program. EQUAL is Spotify’s global initiative to cultivate gender equality in music and support female artistes and podcast creators both locally and internationally. At just 19 years old, the Kenyan-born rapper and singer-songwriter is the youngest artiste to join the program. Ssaru first made her mark in the industry after her rap freestyle went viral. Following that, she released her first video ‘Nyama’ and has since worked with the likes of Benzema of the Ochungulo Family, one of the music crews instrumental…