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The business landscape is transforming faster than most businesses can adapt on their own, making Disruptive M&A the solution for established, market-leading companies that are looking to incorporate the agility of innovative start-ups into their company DNA. Disruptive M&A includes a portfolio of collaboration structures, such as partnerships, joint ventures, buy-outs and corporate venturing, that allows companies to quickly unlock innovation-fueled growth to transform their business. These deals are about more than financial returns; they offer access to new technologies, talent and operating models. Disruptive M&A deals are not only mired in complexity, but usually lead businesses into unfamiliar territory…

MTN Nigeria, yesterday announced a new Board of Directors with Former Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe as Chairman designate. In a statement from MTN Nigeria Chief Executive,  Ferdinand Moolman, the former telecom regulatory chief will take over from Chief. Pascal Dozie by September 2. Also notable people on the list of new directors is former Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson. Others are former Nigerian pension regulatory chief Muhammad Ahmad, ex-banker, Andrew Alli, who once represented the International Finance Corporation to MTN Nigeria’s board. According to the statement, the combination of extensive…

By Adewale Adeyipo In spite of the harsh economic conditions Nigeria is faced with, recent trends have shown there are opportunities for growth of the SME Industry in Nigeria. As reported by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, 2019 Q1 GDP grew by 2.01%, with the majority of this growth being associated with the Non-Oil Sector which is a positive sign and indicative of Nigeria’s possible diversification and less reliance on the oil sector to drive her economy. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that GDP will increase by 2.1% in 2019, which would make Nigeria one of Africa’s slowest-growing economies and…

The annual edition of the Google Nigeria took place in Lagos today with the search engine giant making announcement of new products and features, which it believes will be helpful to more people in Nigeria and across Africa. The products and features announced today include navigation instructions in a Nigerian voice for both motorcycle and car driving modes, new Street View imagery, Gallery Go, Google Go updates, Google Lens and Bolo, and a Nigerian culinary experience from Google Arts and Culture. Google has also partnered with the Nigerian Government to make an online safety curriculum available to all primary and…

Pan-African Information and Communication Technology Company, CWG Plc has advised the Nigerian Government, especially at the Federal level to develop a National Digital Strategy that focuses on people and processes, while maintaining a citizen-centric view. The Head, Information Technology at CWG Plc, Mr.Marcel Odiboh gave the advice, while responding to questions from the audience as one of the panelists during the Fourth Edition of the Information Communication Technology & Telecommunications (ICTEL) Exhibition, organized by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Lagos last week. According to Odiboh, the first step for the Government to develop a digitized environment…

In recent years, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) waves have penetrated the business environment, especially the Financial Services Industry, with every small and large enterprises now desiring to implement an ERP. The belief is that innovation through ERP can make any company work smarter, faster, and ultimately achieve more results. And this is true! Since its introduction, ERP has been known to eliminate disparate systems and consolidate independent systems, creating operational harmony across any organization making use of it. Trust me, a good ERP will help to drive overall process efficiencies and innovation while reducing operational costs. But just before you…

The President of Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani was last week at the Titans of Tech Awards in Lagos crowned ‘Nigeria’s Telecom CEO of the Year 2019’, an award many stakeholders hailed, considering Nnamani’s contribution to the telecom industry since the liberalization in 2001. Giving the award to Nnamani at the prestigious Oriental Hotel, the organizer of the awards, Technology Africa, described the founder of Medallion, a company fondly addresses as Nigeria’s TeleHouse as one of the pillars of telecommunications in Nigeria, having pioneered the offering of public and private interconnection services through its carrier and Data Centre neutral…

Olukayode Kolawole For most people living outside Africa, they imagine the continent as the home of poverty, corruption, internet fraud, infrastructure deficit, and everything that describes under-development, marginalization, oppression, bad leadership, insecurity, diseases, and many more. Although the continent is truly beset with some perennial development issues, some of these notions are preposterous and not entirely peculiar to Africa. No doubt, for a continent that is richly blessed with numerous natural resources, the economies of the countries within it should be enviable and have the capacity to truly compete with the First World countries. Home to 54 countries, with Nigeria…

Cliptize is an awesome assignment tool that gives educators the superpower, to convert any online video or webpage to a class assignment by attaching their own questions to it. Students have to watch the video or read the content of the webpage before attempting the questions. Also, teachers do not need to go through the stress of scoring students one after the other and analysing the class performance as students are automatically scored and their performance automatically analyzed. Their results are constantly updated and sent to the teacher. One big advantage of this type of assignments is, Educators can share…

New devices can come with pre-installed bloatware that reduces performance and violates the privacy When you buy a new device, you expect it to come in a pristine state and work perfectly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Devices can come with pre-installed bloatware that reduces performance and violates your privacy. “Bloatware is software you don’t want that burdens and slows down your device,” explains Daniel Markuson, a digital privacy expert at NordVPN. “These are programs that are preinstalled on new devices, come bundled with other downloads, or are injected into your system through malicious sites.” According to NordVPN’s…