AstraZeneca today launched a global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge to help accelerate ideas to transform the treatment of some of the world’s most complex diseases. The challenge, launched at EXPO 2020 Dubai, invites final year MD and/or PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from across the world to propose their innovative ideas[Read More…]
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Ogun State Signs Partnership Agreement with Fan Milk to Build Dairy Farm
Fan Milk Plc, a DANONE Company, has signed a partnership agreement with the Ogun State Government to establish its flagship dairy farm at the Odeda Farm Institute, in the Odeda Local Government Area. The partnership, an alliance with the state, is to introduce global standards in dairy farming, empower local[Read More…]
Multichoice Decries Monopoly Allegations By Broadcasting Regulations
African broadcast company, MultiChoice has stated that the attempts by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to stimulate competitiveness in the playing fields among local broadcasters will have unintended consequences. “We should not be trying, through regulation, to bring MultiChoice to its knees,” said MultiChoice Group CEO, Calvo[Read More…]
Lilvera Group Bags ‘Most Customer Focused Experiential Marketing’ Award
Lilvera Group, a consultancy firm that is major in integrated marketing communication, has won the 2020 Africa Finance Award for the ‘Most Customer Focused Experiential Marketing category. Lilvera Nigeria was presented with the most customer focused experiential marketing award at the 9th edition of the Award in Lagos recently. After[Read More…]
Airtel Announces Kick-off of ‘5 Days of Love’ Yuletide Initiative
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the commencement of the 2020 edition of its annual ‘5 Days of Love’ Yuletide initiative with a focus on providing palliative packs to five thousand persons across five Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the country. Speaking during a virtual press conference yesterday,[Read More…]
Nigeria operates cheapest electricity tariff in West Africa – Mohammed
The Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr. Usman Gur Mohammed, said Nigeria has the cheapest electricity tariff in the West African sub-region, and called for immediate review of tariffs. According to him, an estimated N1.7 trillion had been spent to subsidise electricity industry in the last six[Read More…]
Nigerian consumers should patronise locally made goods – SON
The management of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has urged Nigerians to stop buying substandard goods and should rather embrace certified locally made products. Mrs Esther Okon, the Coordinator of SON in Kwara, made the call in Ilorin on Monday at meeting organised by FORGO Batteries Company Limited. Okon[Read More…]
NERC moves to remove tariff related liabilities from DisCos
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Thursday moved to remove historical related liabilities from the financial records of DisCos. NERC said that the order No. NERC/196/2020 that it issued yesterday seeks to resolve the continued accumulation of future tariff related shortfalls during the transition to cost reflective tariffs and[Read More…]