It is no news that education is vital for national competitiveness. The strength of America is simply the finesse of its educational system. Break the schools and America is gone – it cannot innovate. China is a global titan because it has educated its citizens. India Institute of Technology has contributed more to the location of more tech companies in India than any political efforts by the modern governments. Companies are following the talents and [...]

A new report from Visiongain has noted that social networking in the mobile category is rapidly becoming ubiquitous.  The frequency of mobile social networking grew 10% between the three-month period ended January 2011 and the three-month period ended April 2011. Twenty eight percent of US mobile subscribers accessed a social networking site via mobile phone in April 2011, compared to 25% in January 2011. Such is the scale of the Mobile Social Networking success story [...]

A new World Bank report, Middle East and North Africa Economic Developments and Prospects: Investing for Growth and Jobs highlights the important links between good governance on a level legal and regulatory playing field, and the ability of investment to stimulate growth.   “Indeed, if we look at examples from other countries undergoing transition, investment surged in many economies that made early moves to improve governance,” says Caroline Freund, Chief Economist for the Middle East [...]

  We mean it – the hottest area in technology now is data analytic. You can also call the players WANTS, just like Quants in the investment banking field. OK, they also go as Data Scientists. These are guys/fields that focus on crunching the massive data social media and new technologies are churning out minute by minute. Companies want to make sense of them – they truly want because without that capability, they cannot have [...]

  The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting its commitment to be one of 15 GIIRS Pioneer Investors who declare as part of their impact investing strategy an investment preference for GIIRS-rated funds and companies. Pioneer Investors will also use GIIRS Ratings to measure the impact of their impact investment portfolios.   Since its inception in 2010, TEF has been a champion of the concept of mobilising capital [...]

Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Standard Bank Group, has made key appointments across some of its key segments. It is a re-organisation geared at skills rotation and bringing different strengths to bear on the continuing growth of the organisation.   Mr. Obinnia Abajue, until recently the acting Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers Limited, has been appointed Head of the Personal and Business Banking division of Stanbic IBTC Bank, which will take [...]

Two people have emerged as winners of MTN N10 Million Prizes in the MTN N1 Billion Mega Reward Scheme. They are Gift Azubuike and Samson Oduwole, a student.   Ten other lucky winners also got a cheque of N100,000. The Chief Marketing Officer, MTN, Bola Akingbola  explained that MTN is using this reward scheme to thank their customers for the support all these years.   ”This is part of activities marking our ten years of [...]