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- FOX is suing Al Franken over the use of the phrase "fair and balanced", for Franken's upcoming book titled "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.". Go, FOX.... |
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- FOX is suing Al Franken over the use of the phrase "fair and balanced", for Franken's upcoming book titled "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.". Go, FOX.... |
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- Samsung to team on ultrawideband. The consumer-electronics company pairs with chipmaker Staccato Communications to develop products using ultrawideband, a technology that's 100 times faster than Bluetooth. <!--">--> |
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- Hockey loses a legend.... |
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- Financial institutions, others break away |
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- INADEQUATE FUNDING for micro and small-scale enterprises in the country has been identified as one of the main problems hampering the efficient growth of the private sector. This is the outcome of a survey of trade and business associations conducted by the Private Enterprises Foundation (PEF). |
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- A BIDDING war could break out in the gold mining industry with Randgold Resources Ltd (RRS.L) preparing a rival bid for Ghana's Ashanti Goldfield Co. Ltd (AGC.GH), which already has an offer from AngloGold Ltd. (ANGJ. |
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- Union Homes Savings and Loans Limited, one of the subsidiaries ofUnion Bank of Nigeria Plc, has joined the millionaires' club. Thesubsidiary garnered a profit before tax of N1.006 billion. This isagainst N717 million recorded in 2003. |
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- Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has responded to a case of N10 millionfraud in respect of a top banker now on the run, published inP.M.News edition of July 22, 2003. |
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- GSM services providers in Nigeria have continued to receive hardknocks for poor services. |
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- A cloud of uncertainty has begun to gather over Bank of the North, asmembers of staff of the northern states- owned bank are apprehensiveover its fate. |
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- Lagos residents woke up last Thursday to witness another round of fuel scarcity but this time, it has nothing to do with price hike. The current crisis is the culmination of the battle of wits between Lagos State Government and petroleum tanker drivers. Roland Ogbonnaya writes on the issues in contention |
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- That is the question on depositors lips these days. Not one, not two, but several innocent Nigerians have been to their banks in the last couple of weeks to withdraw their money only to be turned down by officials of some banks who either proffer worn out excuses or coerce desperate customers into entering into ridiculous agreements that limit the amount of funds they can withdraw. As if the loss of confidence in the banking sector is not enough, mischief makers in the banking sector have gone a step further to exacerbate the situation by taking matters into their hands and publishing a list of banks alleged to be insolvent. |
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- The Federal Government has been praised for its efforts at reviving the country's financial system and ensuring that the banking industry operated on a level playing field. |
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- Nobel Laureate and Playw-right, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called for the decentralisation of the nation's economy, just as he condemned the spate of political assassinations in the country. |
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- Mantu opts for privatisation |
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- The World Bank has earmarked N5.590 billion (an equivalent of $43 million) to finance Nigeria's Micro and Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSME) project in its African Pilot Programme. |
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- The Federal Government has approved $172 million cash call for Shell Petroleum Deve-lopment Company (SPDC) to undertake repairs of the Afam Power Plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. |
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- THE Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has reportedly commenced a series of interactive fora for telecommunication operators and subscribers. Intended to be nationwide and accomplished before the end of the year, the fora will hold in the country's major towns, including Jos, Abeokuta, Asaba, Calabar, Benin, Uyo, Owerri and Lokoja. |
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- GOVERNMENT's plan to liquidate Nigeria Airways may run into troubled waters as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to frustrate the bid unless the airline's workers' entitlements are fully settled. |
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- THIS period is certainly not a pleasant one for the banking and finance industry. The performance of the industry players is an indicative of the state of the economy. Therefore as the economy nose-dives, so also the sector becomes hard hit. |
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- MR. Fabian Nwankwo, managing director of Fabinson Investment Limited, a leading dealer in general goods, is a stickler for excellence who believes that only the best is good for consumers of the products in the country. |
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- Two authoritative reports on Ghana's economy have concluded that theperformance of the industrial sector in the past few years has been verydisappointing. |
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- In recent times many eyebrows have been raised over the activities ofmining companies operating in the country. Recently the Minister for Landsand Forestry Prof. Dominic Fobih called for a national debate on mining. Inthis article Isabella Gyau Orhin examines the minister's call and othersources of foreign exchange the country can explore. |
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- For several reasons, it appears that everybody, especially those who were opportuned to subscribe to the networks of the GSM operators since it debuted in the country in August 2001, know that the technology is now two years old in Nigeria.As the GSM operators are celebrating their apparent two years of success in Nigeria which is viewed as the most vibrant telecoms market in the whole of West African sub-region if not in the entire Africa, subscribers also celebrate but with a certain measure of hesitation. |
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- For Nigerians to enjoy good quality service from GSM networks in Nigeria, each of the GSM companies needs to invest at least $250 million annually in the next five years. This was the submission of Zachary Wazara, Econet Wireless CEO at a forum with Communications journalists recently. |
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- A new GSM handset under the brand name of Bird has debuted in the Nigerian market. It is marketed by Pethahiah Rehoboth International Limited, a communications service provider. Speaking at a session with telecommunications journalists to introduce the product last week, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Ayo Akomolafe said that his company decided to bring Bird handsets into the country because of its high quality and reliability. |
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- Periodic Table of the elements with detailed nuclear information and more. |
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- A version control system for software developers. |
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- Sophisticated audio recording program. |
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- Play over 80 poker games, or create your own. |
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- A nutritional database and personal health logbook. |
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- i'm now a certified r/c pilot! |
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- Two similar stories cross the wires today. In one, Ebay announces a $30 million charge to account for losing a lawsuit brought by the holder of an important ecommerce patent. The second story reports the outcome of the latest Microsoft patent infringement suit: Microsoft must pay $521 million to the patent holders of a method for embedding applications in web browsers. These are just the latest skirmishes in the ongoing battle over business process and technology patents. |
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- Jay, thank you for letting me know. I have been wanting |
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- An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced security cleared(highly desirable) Desktop/PC Support Engineer to join well established blue chip organisation based at one of their prestigious client sites in London. As a Desktop/PC support engineer you will be responsible for supporting Novell Netware and Lotus Notes .You will also have excellent experience of the following S/W: NT4,Win2000,95,98 config,MS Office,Notes MS Outlook/ Exchange breakfix resolution, reimaging and data Type: Contract Location: |
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- A rapidly expanding security solutions provider is looking for experienced Pre-Sales Consultants. A minimum of three years of suitable experience is required which must include content filtering, Firewall management, penetration testing and security consultancy services. Successful candidates will have fantastic communication skills, be able to demonstrate vision and have the ability to lead by example. Type: Permanent Location: |
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- Excellent opportunity to join a leading insurance company as a Security Administrator, performing duties such as account creations/ammendments, call logging and password resets. Must have excellent customer service and communication skills and any experience of RACF would be advantageous. Candidates will be expected to have experience of between 6-12 months within a similar security admin role. Type: Permanent Location: |
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- We urgently seek an experienced Security Risk Analyst for this leading City investment bank. The role will see you heavily involved in all security/risk issues related to banking systems especially user and access related issues. You will have at least 2 years experience of information security operations and the risk factors relating to these. An in depth understanding of banking systems especially technical and applications infrastructure security, gained within an investment banking Type: Permanent Location: |
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- Checkpoint Firewall 1, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Unix. 2 years experience in the security area, specifically involving IT. Coding the rules on the Enterprise Management Servers, and installing them on the Firewalls. Contributing to the diagnoses of dysfunctions of the networks in co-ordination with the telecom team. Follow the evolutions of each Firewall (boot, stop, software, OS and hardware upgrade). |
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- This ever expanding and highly successful organisation are yet again the looking for a talented and highly switched on security specialist. To apply for this role youll have 5 years + experience of being an INFOSEC practitioner and have a full understanding of the accreditation process, documentation, security requirements derivation and management. You will also have knowledge of HMG INFOSEC and JSP 440 Vol. 3 (issue 2). Full relocation assistance is also available. |
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- This is a Junior role working for a large company within the security administration team. You will have 6-12 months experience within a non technical role but wish to move into a larger organisation. This role will not suit someone with strong technical experience or who holds current technical qualifications. Tasks will include customer password resets across a wide variety of applications. Customer account creation/amendments/deletions across a wide variety of applications. |
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- Playing a key part in the growth of an already successful security practice for this top global organisation, I am looking to hear from seasoned security experts only. The role requires a high-calibre professional who has a solid technical background but who also has very strong business development skills. Ideal candidates will have been published, quoted, spoken at seminars etc. and be known in the security space. Your current position is likely to be a Practice Lead, Director, Manager or Type: |
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