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Coca-Cola Nigeria MD Alfred Olajide To Speak At The 27th Nigerian Economic Summit

The Managing Director and Vice President of Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited, Alfred Olajide, has been announced as one of the panellists at the 27th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES #27) which will be held on October 25 and 26, 2021, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. Olajide’s interactive panel, titled ‘Macroeconomic Stability for Recovery and Sustained Growth’, […]

MTN Group CEO, Ralph Mupita Hosts Nigeria High Commissioner to South Africa, Muhammad Haruna Manta in Johannesburg

The President and CEO of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita and MTN Chief Group Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Officer, Felleng Sekha, on Thursday, October 21, 2021, met with Nigeria’s new High Commissioner to South Africa, Muhammad Haruna Manta, briefing the new envoy on plans by the telecom giant to accelerate rural coverage in Nigeria. “During my […]

Bring On the CTO: Why Having a Chief Transformation Officer Makes Sense in a Post-COVID World

– Ricardo Vargas Executive Director, Brightline Initiative, PMI   The case for having a Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) has been building for years. Now, as companies undertake the difficult task of rebuilding in the wake of COVID-19, the CTO role is more important than ever. “Life will never be the same after COVID-19.” You hear […]

MTN Extends Deadline for Spelling Bee Competition to October 24

MTN Nigeria has extended the registration deadline for the 2021 mPulse Spelling Bee to October 24, 2021, to enable more young Nigerians to benefit from the competition on the mPulse website. Explaining the decision to extend the registration deadline, the Acting General Manager, Consumer Marketing, MTN Nigeria, Idowu Adesokan, stated, “We took the mPulse Spelling […]

How we managed challenges to set up BHM office in UK – Ayeni Adekunle

When Ayeni Adekunle announced on March 8, 2021, that Black House Media (BHM), the public relations agency he started from his living room in Lagos in 2006, was opening an office in the United Kingdom, it triggered excitement and offered a ray of hope in the Nigerian communications industry. By the announcement, BHM became the […]

MTN Nigeria Compensates Subscribers for Network Downtime

Nigeria’s largest mobile telecommunications operator, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, has announced compensation for its subscribers to make up for the network disruptions experienced  last Saturday.  On Saturday, 9th October 2021, MTN Nigeria users witnessed hours of network disruption caused by an outage that left customers without a connection. Olutokun Toriola, Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria, […]

Prepare to Laugh and Sing-Along with ID Africans on The Playlist Season 2

Netng announces the official release of a new season of The Playlist. Set to debut on Friday, October 15, 2021, the second season features PR consultants, video editors, writers, creative designers, software engineers, and more unusual talents at ID Africa as they reveal what songs are on their playlist.   Amidst all that comes with […]

BHM Founder Ayeni Adekunle To Speak At Diversity In PR Conference

Ayeni Adekunle, Founder and CEO of BHM

The founder and CEO of BlackHouse Media (BHM), Ayeni Adekunle, has been announced as one of the speakers at the #DiversityInPR Conference which will hold on Thursday, October 14, 2021, via teleconferencing application, Hopin. Ayeni’s session, titled ‘markets of the future’, will interrogate the possibility that the ideas, businesses, principles, and successes that’ll drive the […]

MTN Nigeria Statement on Service Disruption on October 9th 2021

Lagos, October 11th, 2021: MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (“MTN Nigeria”) can confirm that subscribers experienced challenges connecting to the network during the afternoon of Saturday, October 9th, 2021. The service outage was caused by a disruption in the core network and affected voice and data services. MTN’s technical team were able to rectify the problem […]