Updates

Securing the Healthcare Industry: Prevention is better than Cure

September 15, 2016/Check Point Software Technologies Ltd By Rick Rogers, Area Manager for East and West Africa at Check Point Software Technologies The healthcare industry, arguably one of the most technologically advanced considering the gadgets and devices now used to monitor health statistics and perform medical procedures, is ironically among […]

Nigeria in Recession: Coping with an Economic Contraction

Culled—Proshare 14/9/2016/FDC With Nigeria’s current economic weakness, the word ‘recession’ is on everyone’s lips, but not many understand what it really means. The general rule of the thumb is that a country is officially in a re-cession after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. According to this definition, Nigeria was […]

AfDB approves a US $2-million grant to Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau to fight the Zika virus outbreak

14/9/2016/AfDB The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on September 8, 2016 in Abidjan, approved two grants of US $1 million each, to Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau as emergency assistance to support the implementation of National Preparedness and Response Plans to fight the Zika virus […]