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MTN Nigeria Bags CBN Innovation Award For Second Consecutive Year

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has recognised leading information and communications technology (ICT) company, MTN Nigeria as the ‘Telco Partner of the Year’ at the just concluded 2019 Electronic Payments Incentive Scheme (EPIS) Efficiency Awards. Organized by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS), in collaboration with the CBN, the annual EPIS was designed […]

MTN Group’s Music Business Gets A Boost

MTN Group’s newly acquired music streaming entity, Simfy Africa, has been given a welcome boost with the appointment of Oyebowale Akideinde as Head of Over the Top (OTT) Music Services. His appointment, effective 1 February 2019, will enhance the company’s digital music streaming services to its customers across Africa and the Middle East. Oyebowale joins […]

MTN Nigeria Concludes 2018 Season Of Surprises At Grand Finale

  MTN Nigeria has just concluded the fourth edition of its annual Season of Surprises. A grand finale held at the MTN Plaza, Ikoyi, on Monday, December 24, 2018 as hundreds of employees gathered to celebrate the altruistic initiative and its far-reaching results. Nearly 400,000 Nigerians had been touched since MTN staff around the country […]

Using Our Own Medicine – My speech at the Public Presentation of Nigeria PR Report

  Something happened in 2015.   A poor 72-year-old, unpopular, retired army-general ran to be president of Nigeria, an oil-rich West African country with population of about 200 million people.   His opponent, the incumbent, was a 57-year-old Ph.D. who, three years earlier while he was VP, was so popular and favoured that influential citizens […]