1. SINGAPORE CHANGI AIRPORT Singapore Changi Airport connects customers to over 200 destinations worldwide, with 5000 arrivals and departures a week by 80 international airlines. Mr Lee Seow Hiang, CEO of Changi Airport Group “It is a great honour to be named World’s Best Airport by Skytrax for the third year running. This recognition is…
In the midst of negotiations over the payment of a record $5.2 billion fine to the Nigerian government, MTN has managed to get its operational license for Nigeria renewed and extended for an additional five years. “With this renewal and extension, MTN’s operating spectrum which was issued along with the Digital Mobile License (DML) in…
Dr. Ada Igonoh, a Nigerian doctor who survived Ebola last year, has given birth to a baby girl. Igonoh—now a public health advocate and motivational speaker—detailed contracting, living with, and eventually recovering from the disease, providing one of the first accounts of surviving Ebola. Her new girl weighing 9 pounds 1 ounce was born at the Greater El-Monte Community…
New data from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) predicts that Nigeria can become a leading automotive hub in Africa by 2050 with an increase in local production and an expansion in new car markets. Nigeria is very far away such ambitious targets today according to the report. PwC says this year Nigerians will import as many as 335,000 used cars, also…
A few years ago, Luanda, the capital of Angola, was on every ambitious investor’s lips. With large infrastructure and housing projects rapidly changing its appearance, the city seemed to be leaving behind the country’s 27-year civil war. But hopes for renewal are slowly dissipating as the price of the commodity on which Angola’s future was…
With wages rising rapidly in China, Mexico once again has become an attractive manufacturing hub—even to the Chinese. On Oct. 27, the state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) signed a preliminary agreement with the Mexican state of Jalisco to build an industrial park that would potentially house dozens of Chinese manufacturers, Reuters reported. The deal…
India’s largest automaker, Tata Motors, has roped in Argentine soccer icon Lionel Messi as its global brand ambassador for the passenger vehicles category—where the company has been struggling. This is the first time that Messi will endorse an Indian brand. “The idea is to engage with young people, and we found that football and Messi…
Nearly 20 months ago, Nigeria’s Central Bank called for the country’s 52 million bank account holders to undergo a registration process to obtain a unique Bank Verification Number (BVN ) which would serve as the first national numeric identifier. The Central Bank hopes giving everyone a unique number, similar to the U.S.’ social security number, could help…
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