Interviews

Identity fraud has increased significantly in recent years, with scammers taking advantage of the growing amount of personal information available on digital platforms to obtain goods or services in the victim’s name. According to Evina, a French cybersecurity firm with a presence in more than 70 countries worldwide – including 15 in Africa – a recent report titled State of Mobile ...

*Corporate communication tools have come under greater threat INTERVIEWS: In the new normal world where more work is being carried out remotely, corporate communications have increased in importance but they have also come under greater threat. As the recent Twitter attack shows, communication tools offer hackers an attractive extra method of getting hold of sensitive information like login details. We spoke to ...

INTERVIEW: CWG CEO, Mr. Adewale Adeyipo said in this interview via Zoom Video Conference, that there is need for organizations to be innovative and forward thinking in the face of COVID 19 global pandemic. Excerpts: What are your thoughts about Covid-19 in the last five months? Covid-19 has taught us some lessons we could not have learnt ordinarily. In the ...

INTERVIEW: I travel to meet Dr Adesola Adeduntan in Edinburgh, where he has been invited to give a keynote address at the Edinburgh School of Business about the role of financial institutions in driving financial inclusion. Fittingly, as you land in Edinburgh, you are greeted by billboards from different investment funds advertising their credentials in responsible and sustainable investment and ...

In this interview, Bismarck Rewane,  a member of the Presidential  Economic Advisory Council, and Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives, projects that Nigeria will likely achieve a higher economic growth of 2.3 percent in 2020. He, however stressed that this growth projection is subject to how the authorities respond to three major factors. These factors he said include investors’ concern ...

INTERVIEW: *Commission in active collaboration with NIMC The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has again re-assured Nigerians that there is no iota of truth in media speculations that 95.7 million SIM cards have been rendered null and void due to alleged poor deployment of technology. Speaking with journalists in an interview recently, the NCC’s Executive Commissioner for Stakeholder Management, Mr Sunday ...

STARTUP INTERVIEW: Chijioke Dozie is the CEO and co-Founder of OneFi, a leading African Mobile-First Consumer Lending Business that has disbursed over $40m to consumers since inception. Tell us something about OneFi? At OneFi, we issue small loans to the financially underserved mass retail segment, via our mobile app “Paylater”, a Nigerian leading digital financial services platform that specializes in consumer ...

STARTUP INTERVIEW: Kingsley Ndiewo is the CEO and founder of Funtrench, a technology training institution in Kenya and Africa. He engaged Africa Business Communities about his company, in this exclusive interview. Please introduce Funtrench to us Funtrench is a technology company that is building an ecosystem of emerging technologies in Africa. We established our campus last year in July focusing on training ...

IT NEWS NIGERIA: Delivering on its promise to empower digital transformation for enterprise customers, Layer3 has expanded its portfolio with a new multicloud orchestration platform designed to simplify deployment of enterprise workloads, managed services and third-party cloud resources.   In advancing this course, Layer3 very recently, organized a two-day workshop with the theme “Simplify Your Path to a Secure and ...

Kenneth ChinenyezeNwosu, is a first class engineer, an IT professional, an e-health practitioner and a sustainability enthusiast, who holds an MBA in Information Technology, a Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) and MSc in Health Informatics. The graduate of University of Benin, who believes that Nigeria’s problems can only be solved by Nigerians, is currently the President of SITNigeria, an organization ...