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  Nigeria statistics
  - Population 147.98 mln
  - Population growth 2%
  - Life expectancy 47 years
  - Net migration -170,000
  - GDP $2.15 bln
  - - per capita $920
  - - growth rate 6%
  - FDI, net inflows $2.15 bln
  - Cellphone users 27%
  - Internet users 7%
  - High-tech exports 8%

Information Security in Nigeria

Information Security in Nigeria

z.jidaw.com –

It's time to rethink CyberSecurity Nigeria ... IT professionals cannot "stand aside and look" while cyber bandits attack the social and economic system for criminal purposes. The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria) will be holding a one day workshop on Cyber Crimes, Cyber Threats, Cyber Security and Computer Misuse at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Date: Wednesday 12th June, 2013. Time: 9:00am. More details: more...

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Jidaw List on May 13, 2013

ICT and E-governance at the Grassroots: Devising an Enabling Law

ICT and E-governance at the Grassroots: Devising an Enabling Law

manager.faa.ro –

The innovation of e-governance enhances good governance, strengthens the democratic process, facilitates access to information, improves citizen participation and the quality of life, using the instrument of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). There is growing concern that e-governance at the local government level can: improve the quality of services to its constituents, improve efficiency, effectiveness, transparency of government operations, build the capacity of civil society more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 2, 2013

Homecoming: Return and reintegration of irregular migrants from Nigeria

Homecoming: Return and reintegration of irregular migrants from Nigeria

Informed by new qualitative research, this report offers a set of recommendations to improve the process of returning irregular migrants from the EU to Nigeria, and the reintegration support available to them, to ensure that policy in this area is effective, efficient, humane and sustainable. Nigerians represent a sizeable portion of the millions of irregular migrants currently residing within the EU. This presents significant challenges to the Nigerian government as well as European more...

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D C on April 25, 2013

Nigerian SMEs look to financing options in absence of bank credit

businessdaynigeria.com –

Occasioned by the unfriendly interest charged by financial institutions, among other factors, Nigerian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have moved to explore financing options that will enable them stay in business, in the absence of banks’ credit, BusinessDay findings have shown. Small and medium scale enterprises dominate the private sector of the Nigerian economy, but almost all of them are starved of funds.

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on April 16, 2013

ICT and Insurance Companies Profitability in Nigeria

The study examines the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on insurance companies’ profitability. It identifies the imperatives for adoption of ICT to promoting efficient and efficient service delivery in the insurance industry as a st rategy for attainment of the profit maximisation objectives of insurance companies in Nigeria. The study is an empirical design which utilises responses of structured questionnaire of 152 respondents from 18 insurance companies to explore the more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 10, 2013

Access Bank Nigeria - Gender Empowerment

subs.accessbankplc.com –

Gender Empowerment (GEM) is a program aimed at supporting women and aspiring female entrepreneurs. Under this program, Access Bank will provide women with resources they need to grow their business. It encompasses Finance, Capacity building, Networking, Advisory services and Market collaborations.

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on April 9, 2013

Mobile Value Added Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women Entrepreneurs

Mobile Value Added Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women Entrepreneurs

cherieblairfoundation.org –

Analysis by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women across three markets – Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia – established that there are a number of mobile value-added solutions (VAS) which, if tailored and scaled commercially, could address the priority needs of women entrepreneurs. The Foundation's project consists of three phases: research, from which this report is the key outcome; assessment of the implementation and scale of mobile VAS solutions for women entrepreneurs in three specific markets more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on April 9, 2013

Critical realism: a practical ontology to explain the complexities of smoking and tobacco control in different resource settings

Critical realism: a practical ontology to explain the complexities of smoking and tobacco control in different resource settings

globalhealthaction.net –

By Dunsi Oladele, Alexander M. Clark, Solina Richter, Lory Laing Background: This paper presents critical realism (CR) as an innovative system for research in tobacco prevention and control. CR argues that underlying mechanisms are considered and explored to ensure effective implementation of any program/policy or intervention. Any intervention or program/policy that is transposed from one country to another or one setting to another is complex. Methods: The research was undertaken and more...

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Umeå Centre for... on April 3, 2013

Access Bank Promotes Gender Empowerment in Nigeria

allafrica.com –

Access Bank has declared its commitment to issue of gender empowerment and equality. This disclosure was made at the International Women's Day commemorative event organised by the Women Empowerment Principles Leadership Group (WEPLG) which coincided with the 5th edition of the Equality Means Business meeting in New York. At the Women Empowerment Principle Leadership Group meeting which is a part of the United Nations efforts on women empowerment, Access Bank represented by its Head, Group more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on April 2, 2013

Free and Open Source Software underpinning the European Forest Data Centre

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de –

Worldwide, governments are growingly focusing on free and open source software (FOSS) as a move toward transparency and the freedom to run, copy, study, change and improve the software. The aim of this contribution is to highlight how a continental scale information system may exploit and integrate FOSS technologies within the transdisciplinary research underpinning such a complex system. A European example is discussed where FOSS innervates both the structure of the information system itself more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 31, 2013

Regional Sales Manager: AfricaProgram Officer, GEP Consultant - KafueReading & Writing Instruction Facilitators - Petau...Reading & Writing Instruction Program Manager - Pe...Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, ZambiaFinance & Administration-Delegate , Mbabane, Swazi...Liberia WAAPP Cassava BreederGlobal CoordinatorHead of Programme, Civil Society Education FundGirl Hub Nigeria Senior Monitoring, Learning & Res...Value chain advisor , NigerFinance and operations more...

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Juma Mzuri on March 26, 2013

Banking on Women in Business - Case Study: Nigeria

Banking on Women in Business - Case Study: Nigeria

www1.ifc.org –

Access Bank is Nigeria's seventh largest bank and recognizes that female-owned businesses make up a significant proportion of bankable SMEs. To help tap this underserved market, IFC has provided Access Bank with a $30 million credit line for on-lending to women entrepreneurs, along with advisory services to support a successful roll-out of its women's program. Working with IFC experts, Access Bank first examined the women's market in Nigeria and elsewhere, while analyzing the bank's own more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on March 21, 2013

Nigeria’s Access Bank and IFC partner on SMEs and Women Entrepreneurs

ifcnet.ifc.org –

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a N3.5 billion (equivalent to $22 million) Risk Sharing Facility and s $50 million loan to Access Bank Nigeria to help it expand lending to SMEs, a quarter of which will be women-owned. The Risk Sharing Facility is part a $100 million, three-year joint initiative with The Coca-Cola Company to provide access to finance for thousands of women entrepreneurs in Africa and other emerging markets. Under the joint initiative with Coca-Cola, IFC more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on March 12, 2013

Girl power: Nigerian teens invent urine-powered generator

Girl power: Nigerian teens invent urine-powered generator

girleffect.org –

When teenager Adebola Duro-Aina read a story online in July 2012 about nine members of a family dying from a generator's carbon monoxide fumes, she says she thought about what she could do to provide a safer alternative source of energy. When the next academic year began in September 2012, Adebola enlisted three friends - Oluwatoyin Faleke, Eniola Bello and Abiola Akindele, all students between 14 and 15 years old in her science class - to help her find a solution to the problem. The team more...

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D C on March 12, 2013

Sub-Saharan Consulting Group (SSCG) launched Africa SMEs Development Forum, to support UK small businesses growth and trade in the African market, develop SMEs capacity, competitiveness, value chains and entrepreneurship skills in the continent

Sub-Saharan Consulting Group (SSCG) launched Africa SMEs Development Forum, to support UK small businesses growth and trade in the African market, develop SMEs capacity, competitiveness, value chains and entrepreneurship skills in the continent

eventbrite.co.uk –

Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs are the backbone of every economy, creating employment opportunities and improving people livelihood in Africa. However, it is generally recognised that they face unique and overwhelming challenges, which affect their potential, hence diminish their ability to contribute effectively to the continent sustainable economic development. Enterprises in Africa encounter daily challenges ranging from: lack of managerial skills, inadequate more...

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Eugene Nizeyimana on March 10, 2013

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