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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has stated that the challenge of electricity was adversely affecting the growth of the continent’s economy. Speaking at the Africa CEO forum in Abidjan, the President of Dangote group also disclosed what has made his conglomerate successful. “Where I come from, which is Kano in Nigeria, we have over 20 million people and we are sharing 35 megawatts only,” Dangote said. “So when we started business as a group, we said that we would not go into the national grid. Every single country that we are operating in, we would create, generate our own power and that is why we have been very, very successful.” In his remark, President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, said Africa must seek ways to light up the continent. “If you walk in the dark, you’ll stumble and you will fall. But if you walk in the light, you will constantly see things ahead of you,” he said. “The problem is, ...

Veteran Nollywood actors, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD) and Olu Jacobs will make a return to TV in a new telenovela titled ‘Hush’ which is set to air on Africa Magic Showcase April 4, 2016. Hush stars Olu Jacobs, Baj Adebule, Rotimi Adelegan and Meg Otanwa amongst others. A tale of fashion, politics and ambition which follows different members of high society as they collide, the story of Hush revolves around Bem and Arinola, power-players in fashion and politics respectively. Bem, played by Richard Mofe-Damijo, is one of Africa’s biggest designers based in Lagos State, Nigeria, and Arinola, played by Thelma Okoduwa, is one of the state’s fastest rising politicians. The intrigue begins when Bem proposes marriage to Arinola, an action that sets in motion a chain of events propelled by the secrets in their respective lives, secrets that run through the backrooms of secret societies, the corridors of the judiciary and on social media. Hush is an exciting telenovella that exp...

Nigeria as many already know has suffered the consequences of corruption for so many years, so much so the conversation during the last elections was almost based on who’d best fight corruption. One Governor who is living up to the billing is the reform minded Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State. He has opened the state to the private sector and introduced reforms into the state’s civil service. In a fresh effort to recoup much needed resources, the state government is now renegotiating over bloated contracts awarded by the previous administration. The Kaduna State Government has saved over N1.1bn on the Kawo Road contract. This was announced by Hassan Usman Mahmud, the Commissioner of Works, Housing and Transport, at a press briefing after the weekly Executive Council meeting. Mahmud said the saving was achieved following a renegotiation of the contract that was awarded by the previous government in December 2014 to Mothercatat the sum of N3.685bn.  The contr...

Opera is introducing a new version of its desktop browser with built-in adblocking, removing the need for a third-party extension. The Norwegian software company has a history of innovations that later become common in other browsers, such as tabbed browsing. It was also an early pioneer of pop-up blocking, which targeted an earlier generation of in-your-face ads. Opera says the move can reduce page-loading times by as much as 90% by preventing the browser having to make requests to ad networks, which slows page loading. Because it is building the feature directly into its browser, page-load times are 40% faster than with existing adblocker plugins or browser extensions, the company claims. More than 9 million (22%) of the UK’s internet users have an adblocker installed, a recent report  found, and the proportion is considerably higher among 18- to 24-year-olds, with almost half using some form of adblocker. Opera’s built-in adblocker will initially only be in the de...

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