The upcoming Fidelity Bank ‘SME Forum Online’ airing from Friday, 15th May 2020, will be targeted at SMEs in specific sectors like Foods, Beauty, Hospitality, Entertainment, Fashion & Lifestyle, and will be graced by experts in these industries. Fidelity Bank has always been at the forefront of SME empowerment and that’s why in this time of uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and with businesses being unsure of what to do next, the bank has kept its promise of empowering SMEs by debuting the SME Forum Radio Show Online. The SME Forum is housed on the brand’s Instagram platform as…
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Solar companies in Nigeria are pitching in to provide electricity to the front-line healthcare facilities fighting COVID-19. In rural areas all of over the world, two things can be really scarce: reliable electricity and adequate healthcare. Lumos Nigeria is one of four renewable energy companies that have been selected to receive a share of the $500,000 Solar Relief Fund from Shell-backed off-grid energy impact investing company All On, according to a report by Forbes. Adepeju Adebajo, the CEO of Lumos Nigeria said the company’s off-grid solar units are being provided to rural and low-income-area healthcare facilities at no cost to the…
Facebook is throwing a new $100,000 challenge to developers to create models that can recognize hateful images and memes. As a part of the challenge, Facebook said it’ll provide developers with a dataset of 10,000 ‘hateful’ images licensed from Getty Images. Memes are now an integral part of how people communicate on the internet. While a lot of these memes have an ability to cheer you up, a lot of them are hateful and discriminatory. At the same time, AI models that are trained primarily with text to detect hate speech, struggle to identify hateful memes. “We worked with trained third-party…
MultiChoice Talent Factory Academy (MTF) West Africa will in continuation of its virtual classes, on Friday, hold a 30-minute online class tagged ‘Produce Like a Pro!’ for its students. The online session will give the students an insight into practical, industry expert-led skills to produce content like professionals. According to Femi Odugbemi, Academy Director, MTF West Africa, the ‘Produce Like a Pro!’ series is part of MultiChoice’s mission to upskill emerging creatives and seasoned professionals in the Film and TV industry. “The Produce Like a PRO! Series is our answer to the industry need for easier access to training material,…
Nigerian technology experts have been urged to get ready for new innovations and ideas after the world might have defeated the novel Coronavirus that is currently ravaging economies. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), made this call as a Panelist during the Africa Tech Leaders Webinar Series organised by Digital Jewels with the theme: ‘COVID-19 Pandemic: The Africa Leaders’ Outlook’, on Tuesday. Inuwa, who is also the Chief Information Technology Officer of Nigeria, said that, with all that has happened during Coronavirus scourge, African Countries can still key into technology and digitise its processes, as this…
Employees of leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, have donated the sum of N20m to the Lagos State Government in support of the fight against the COVID-19 global pandemic currently ravaging communities and nations the world over, making them the first employee group in the country to make such a donation. The donated sum is specifically meant to support the Lagos State Government in the provision of relief materials to indigent residents and citizens as well as families who are badly affected by the on-going COVID-19 crisis. Commenting on the donation in a letter to the Lagos State Governor, Chief…
Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its *894# Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), Quick Banking service has hit over 9.5 million customers. This is in a clear demonstration of its acknowledged leadership in electronic Banking. The Bank’s USSD banking service, launched in January 2015, is an easy to use, convenient, fast, user-friendly mobile banking channel through which various banking activities are carried out on a mobile phone – across the four major GSM network operators in the country – without the use of the internet. Customers are able to enjoy a wide…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has stated that it is leveraging the various opportunities available in the Fintech space to ensure proper regulation of the capital market in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Acting Director-General of SEC, Ms Mary Uduk, in a statement at the weekend, noted that the apex regulator had to employ various means to ensure that the market is able to operate remotely as well as ensure that investors are able to get the benefit of their investments at this critical time when they need them. “No one saw this coming, but here it is…
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has disclosed that his government has installed 3G cameras in all the busy borders in the state in order to effectively monitor every movement into the state. Emmanuel made the disclosure Saturday evening while responding to a question on what government is doing to check the recent relocation of Almajiri’s from the North to Niger Delta region, during a live Radio and Television programme aired on Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation, (AKBC). He explained that the installation of the 3G Cameras which are also reflected on the I-PADS, phones of every stakeholder involved in the…
By Ademola EKUN There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a serious challenge to the global economy, Nigeria inclusive. However, I seriously think that within this challenge, there are opportunities for Nigeria to scale as a nation. The opportunities abound. Such growth will only happen if Nigerian companies and innovators are encouraged to make use of the window of opportunity presented by the crises orchestrated by the pandemic. Nigeria indeed has the population and human capital capabilities. Beyond population, Nigeria needs a critical ingredient to make use of the chance to succeed presented by this…