The sight of Nigerian currency notes and coins of yester-years on Sunday in Bauchi, ignited nostalgic feelings of ‘glorious past’ among some residents of Bauchi metropolis. The old monies were displayed during a religious activity organised by Tijanniya Islamic sect of Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi. The event, which spanned three days, saw traders from various states of the Federation seizing the opportunity to display their wares for sale. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the man who displayed the currency said he had been a businessman for the past many years and had kept those currencies for posterity. The man, who said…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
A Professor of Petroleum Economics, Wumi Iledare says it will be difficult for Nigeria to fund 2021 budget of N13.08 trillion with oil revenue, going by the development in the global oil market. The 2021 appropriation bill presented on October 8, by President Muhammadu Buhari to the joint session of the National Assembly, NASS, for passage, was predicated on crude oil benchmark price of $40 per barrel at 1.86 million daily oil output. But Iledare in an interview in Abuja on Sunday said, “Don’t expect the budget to be funded by revenue from oil or hydrocarbons extraction. “That is impossible…
There’s often a misconception that artificial intelligence (AI) is only applicable to businesses in the B2C space. It’s thought that since B2C companies have more customers, they have more data to leverage to make AI impactful. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. AI is as relevant to a B2B company as it is to a B2C company. It’s important for every B2B company to evaluate the ways AI can help them produce better products, provide better services, and improve business processes. Here are just a few of the ways some B2B companies are using artificial intelligence today. Better Products One of…
The Police Service Commission, PSC, says the conduct of Policemen on electoral duties at the governorship election in Ondo state was above average. According to the interim report communicated to ASHENEWSONLINE in a statement by the Spokesperson of the PSC, Mr Ikechukwu Ike on Sunday, “the Commission’s team visited 12 local government areas in the three Senatorial districts of the state, covering 77 polling units. “The team received a total of 51 telephone calls from its advertised dedicated lines with complaints basically on attempts to induce voters. “There was reasonable distribution of Policemen at the various polling units ranging from…
GhanaWeb, Ghana’s biggest news platform and Tonaton.com, Ghana’s biggest online marketplace have signed an exclusive cooperative partnership agreement to lead and improve Ghana’s online marketplace with engaging content. This partnership follows nearly two years of commercial cooperation between both companies resulting in a positive synergy that strengthened the customer experience journey of their visitors. GhanaWeb and Tonaton.com agreed to integrate their content and offering respectively to allow their visitors to orient themselves in specific categories of interest on GhanaWeb to eventually buy and sell items or apply for jobs simultaneously on Tonaton.com. Popular classifieds such as Electronics, Property, Vehicles and…
Mr Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has beaten his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Mr Eyitayo Jegede and re-elected as governor of Ondo state. He won 15 of the 18 local governments by scoring 292,830 votes, while Jegede and Mr Agboola Ajayi of the Zenith Labour Party came second and third in the election with 195,791 and 69,127 votes, respectively. The Chief Returning Officer for the election, Professor Idowu Olayinka, returned Akeredolu as the governor-elect on Sunday. “Having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes, I hereby declare Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu…
… Emplaces other measures to protect the citizens The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu has desolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 State Police Commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of the Force Headquarters, DCP Frank Mba on Sunday. “In the finest spirit of democratic, citizen-centred and community policing, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has today, 11th October, 2020, dissolved the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 State Police Commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) where they hitherto existed. “The IGP,…
The wife of the Sokoto State Governor, Hajiya Maryam-Mairo Tambuwal, on Saturday commenced the distribution of food items and working tools to women as palliatives to cushion the effects of COVID-19 in the state. Speaking at the ceremony, Tambuwal said she will continue to champion economic empowerment, social awareness, medical outreach services and other intervention activities to alleviate the sufferings of people in the state. According to her, the project knows no bound irrespective of religion, political affiliation, gender or tribe. “I will not compromise my drive through this laudable initiative for the people.” Tambuwal, who is the founder of…
In fulfillment of its pledge to continue promoting transparency in electoral process using technology, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it made progress in uploading election results from polling units (PUs) during Saturday’s Ondo State Governorship election. According to INEC, the results were uploaded on its result view portal. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Aug. 6 introduced a dedicated public election result viewing portal, known as “The INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal’’. At the Ondo election, therefore, results from 2,518 polling units out of the 3,009 units in 18 Local Governments across the state were uploaded on the…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudiness and thunderstorms from Sunday to Tuesday. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja predicted partly cloudy skies over the northern region with slim prospects of rains over parts of Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe State during the morning hours of Sunday. According to him, there are prospects of thunderstorms over parts of Sokoto, Zamfara, Borno, Taraba and Bauchi States later in the day. “The north central cities should be predominantly partly cloudy to cloudy in the morning. During the afternoon and evening hours, isolated thunderstorms are expected over parts of Kwara, Abuja,…