Monday 25 March 2013

Pictures from Nigerian Idol Season 3, Top 5 Second Gala Show

 Nigerian Idol Season 3 last three male contestants, Jay-Feel (1st left); Abasiakan (1st right); Moses (2nd right) and Manager, Sponsorship, Etisalat Nigeria, Orah Egwu at the Nigerian Idol Season 3 Second Top 5 Gala Show, held at Dream Studio, Bamako Estate, Lagos, on Sunday, 24th March, 2013.
   
Manager, Sponsorship, Etisalat Nigeria, Orah Egwu (third left), with Nigerian Idol Season 3 Top 5 contestants, Jay-Feel (1st left); Debie Rise (second left); Abasiakan (1st right); Moses (2nd right) and Sefeeyat, at the Nigerian Idol Season 3 Second Top 5 Gala Show, held at Dream Studio, Bamako Estate, Lagos, on Sunday, 24th March, 2013.

CNN African Voices Profiles Jeta Amata Seasoned Nollywood Director

African Voices, a weekly programme that examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa’s peoples and cultures and highlights Africa's most engaging personalities on the continent and in the diaspora will be profiling one of Nigeria’s popular film Directors Jeta Amata.
This week, CNN’s Isha Sesay talks with Amata about his upcoming film and his experience working with major Hollywood and Nollywood film stars.
Jeta Amata comes from a family of well-known Nollywood talent. His grandfather was a prominent writer and actor. Now Jeta Amata is part of the new generation of Nigerian movie-makers committed to telling African stories to a global audience

CLOSE-UP, LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT, NDA, HEIT CELEBRATE WORLD ORAL HEALTH DAY . . . KICK-OFF NEW WORLD RECORD TOOTH BRUSHING CHALLENGE

Leading oral care brand, Close-Up Toothpaste in partnership with Lagos State government, Nigerian Dental Association (NDA), HEIT Solutions, Vas2Net & Core Media has celebrated the World Oral Health Day to introduce the World Record Tooth Brushing Challenge and sensitise the public on the importance of proper oral care.

Thursday 21 March 2013

EMP Announces the Appointment of Tunde Coker as Regional Head of West Africa

Emerging Markets Payments ("EMP"), a leading African and Middle Eastern payments company, today announces the appointment of Tunde Coker as its Regional Head of West Africa.

"EMP's Bank Processing division provides card personalization, card hosting, card processing and ATM and POS driving services to 135 banks across the MENA region. 50 of these are in West Africa, which highlights the importance of this appointment," said Hoda Shoukry, EMP Bank Processing Division's CEO.

ORAL B CELEBRATES WORLD ORAL HEALTH DAY WITH NIGERIAN CHILDREN



Today, as part of the activities to commemorate World Oral Health day (WOHD), Oral-B demonstrated her purpose of promoting Oral health in Nigeria, by celebrating WOHD with Nigerian primary school children at an event hosted by the brand at Chrisland Primary School, Ikeja.

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Nokia appoints Nick Imudia as Managing Director for West and Central Africa



Nokia announced the appointment of Nick Imudia as Managing Director for its West and Central Africa operations. Covering a territory that includes Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia, Chad, Niger, Benin and Togo, Imudia will be based in the Nokia office in Lagos.

Nick Imudia joined Nokia in 1998 and has held several senior positions within the organization over the past 15 years, including Senior Manager for Retail IT Products and Systems, based out of Singapore; Director of Consumer and Marketing Solutions and Head of Sales and Marketing Solutions. Prior to his move to West Africa, Imudia was based in Finland as Director for the Sales and Marketing Capability Unit, a role in which he held global responsibility for all of the processes, tools and systems for the Nokia Sales and Marketing function.

Nigerian Idol Season III-“2 down….6 left”


Last weekend on Nigerian Idol, Kome and Dani Angus were evicted from the show leaving Safeeyat, Debie, Efezino, Jay-Feel, Abasiakan, and Moses in the competition.
Who among these 6 contestants will be evicted on the show this week? Which of the contestants will make it to the finale of the competition? Well, now you are the judge. Yes! The power lies in your hands. Keep voting to keep your favorite contestant in the competition, log on to www.nigerianidol.com. Voting closes at 12midnight on Wednesday.
Nigerian Idol is proudly brought to you by Etisalat, Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunication company.

Friday 8 March 2013

Pictures From The MasterCard thought leadership Forum That Was Held In Lagos

                       
L-R: Enterprise Bank, Group head e-banking, Mrs. Ogba Ori, Guaranty Trust Bank, Assistant general manager, Mr. Deji Oguntonade, MasterCard Advisors, Global head acquiring knowledge centre, Mr. Philip Miller, Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS),Executive Director Business Development, Mrs. Christabel Onyejekwe at the MasterCard thought leadership forum on Merchant Acquire, that held in Lagos on the March 7, 2013.
 
L-R: MasterCard Worldwide,Country Manager, Ms. Omokehinde Ojomuyide, Enterprise Bank, Group head e-banking, Mrs Ogba Ori, MasterCard Advisors, Global head acquiring knowledge centre, Mr. Philip Miller, Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), Executive Director Business Development, Mrs. Christabel Onyejekwe, KeyStone bank, Divisional head global transaction banking, Mrs. Uchenna Okwodu at the MasterCard thought leadership forum on Merchant Acquire, that held in Lagos on the March 7, 2013.

THREE NETWORKING PARADIGMS THAT WOULD AFFECT BUSINESS IN TODAYS ECONOMY

At a time when IT budgets remain relatively flat, IT organisations are faced with a number of major shifts in networking that cannot be ignored. Finding ways to keep pace with this shifting landscape and the rapid drumbeat of innovation is a challenge certainly, but even for those without limitless budgets, it’s not one which has to prove insurmountable. IT organisations must be pragmatic but also consider their technology choices carefully, protecting existing investments through the use of open technologies and looking at which projects need to be prioritised in line with the business’ priorities.


Broadly speaking there are three major trends within the networking space that are currently shaping the industry; convergence, distributed networking and software defined networks. These topics are not new to the table, but having been discussed for some time, they are now beginning to hit the mainstream in terms of the maturity of the technology and where they are on the corporate agenda.