BUSINESS

ABUJA: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), after the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016. According to a press release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l magazine & www.startrendinternational.com by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser …

Nigeria’s leading e-commerce platform, Jumia, has partnered with global beverage company International Breweries and global consumer goods maker Unilever to make consumer goods and beverage products accessible and available to Nigerians on the Jumia platform in the COVID-19 and post pandemic era. According to a press release e-signed and made …

By Princewill Ekwujuru As countries are continuously caught in-between the hard decision of easing lockdowns in bid to open up socio-economic activities and flattening the Coronavirus infection curve, the sad reality the world may live with for the rest of human existence is the disclosure that the pandemic may never …

LAGOS: Primero Transport Services Ltd., operator of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) which is being managed by Mr Fola Tinubu, has announced plans to withdraw its services on May 25, 2020. The transport services cited logistics problems and other issues as one of its reasons, a source told the …

Opinion: No doubt, Jumia has become a household name in Nigeria and indeed Africa. But the e-commerce firm has in recent times come under unwholesome criticism, borne not out of failure to deliver services, but of envy and failure of others to mark up the market.        In this analysis, DAVID …

LAGOS: United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, a Pan African financial institution, has upgraded its mobile banking application, introducing lots of exciting and interactive features to aid banking, whilst allowing customers to perform unlimited transactions with simple taps on their mobile phones. The award winning innovative Bank which was the …

By Ayomide Oriade LAGOS: As fear heightens over probable backlash of relaxed lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States amidst frightening community transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19), e-Commerce remains the most practical and safest method for curtailing the virus and driving social distancing. The relaxation of lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and …

LAGOS: Jumia, Africa’s leading e-commerce platform and Mastercard on Monday, May 11, 2020 announced a partnership to incentivize the use of cashless payments platforms as people look for safer ways to pay in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a press release e-signed and made available to StarTrend …

Opinion: By Ayomide Oriade  LAGOS: Clearly, Nigeria has climbed the plateau of Coronavirus crisis with the daily upsurge in the confirmed cases and deaths. Nearly the entire 36 states, including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are on the infected case chart. COVID-19 contagion is now at the community transmission …

Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has urged the Nigerian government to keep the receipts of the $3.4 billion emergency financial assistance. Georgieva, who gave the advice on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 in an interview with CNBC Africa, disclosed that the IMF had already disbursed …