Category: Technology
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Sani Dauda; Nigerian businessman who through his own private company, ASD Motors, bided for and acquired PAN which assembles the enduring motor vehicle brand in Kaduna. With Peugeot’s acquisition, Dauda’s first priority was to re-shape the company’s vision and re-orientate the staff to achieve greater efficiency. In this regard, the company invests in technology and…
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Ezekiel Fatoye; an engineer and a strong force in the telecommunication industry in Nigeria for four decades. An ex-Executive Director at NITEL and MultiLinks, he is also on the management team at Spectranet. Fatoye was part of innovations in the telecommunications. After his tenure as executive director in NITEL, he started Nigeria’s first private telecommunications…
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Vandalism; is the damage to public properties. Bottled resentment due to Niger Delta crisis has been blamed for instances of vandalism of oil and gas pipelines[i]. A total of 2,258 cases of pipeline vandalism were recorded in 2005 while 911 cases were reported in 2004. This culminated in the loss of products amounting to about…
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Theophilus Danjuma; Military general who played crucial roles in the shaping of post-independence Nigeria. Danjuma who made huge fortunes in Nigeria’s extractive industry announced his foundation with the sum of $100 million in 2009[i]. The one-time Chief of Army Staff, COAS, and Minister of Defence is generally regarded as a doyen of military professionalism[ii]. Born…
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National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Nigeria’s state oil corporation through which the federal government regulates and participate in the oil industry Nigerian was formed in 1977 was a result of different developments in the country’s oil industry. The evolution of the Corporation, no doubt, was after the first commercial oil find was made in 1956 by…
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Ethanol; is an alcohol derived from grains like corn and tubers of cassava[i]. It is emerging as an important motor fuel in view of the Kyoto Protocol Agreement to which Nigeria is a signatory. Ethanol is easy to use in combustion engines, requiring none to minor modifications, it has a higher octane rating compared to…
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Nigerian Content is defined as the quantum of composite value added or created in the Nigerian economy through the utilisation of Nigerian human and material resources for the provision of goods and services to the petroleum industry within acceptable quality, safety and environment standards in order to stimulate the development of indigenous capabilities. Despite…
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Plane Crash; Over a thousand lives has been lost to plane crashes in Nigeria since the first recorded incidence which occurred on November 20, 1969 when a government-owned DC-10 aircraft on a flight from London crash-landed in Lagos. It killed all 87 passengers and crew on board. Several causes have been adduced to aviation accidents,…
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Nasir El-Rufai; Politician, first renowned for being part of the core five figures of President Obasanjo’s economic team that delivered NEEDS in a period, 2003-2007, which recorded the fastest rates of economic growth in Nigeria’s history. From a background of private practice in quantity surveying, El Rufai first came into public service with the appointment…