PalmPay’s Purple Woman 3.0 tackles fintech’s gender gap - ITREALMS

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Leading fintech platform in Nigeria’s technology sector, PalmPay, has concluded the third edition of its Purple Woman Masterclass, reports ITREALMS.

The initiative, coinciding with International Women's Day 2026, aims to transition young women from digital learners to industry professionals through a rigorous skill-acquisition and internship pipeline.

Onne Customs hits 15.4% revenue growth, tackles documentation gaps @stakeholder engagement - ITREALMS

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The Port Harcourt Area II Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has moved to streamline operations at Onne Port following revelations from its recent Time Release Study (TRS), reports ITREALMS.

During a high-level stakeholder engagement held on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Aliyu Mohammed Alkali, challenged port users on strict compliance with cargo documentation to eliminate avoidable delays in the supply chain.

FCCPC tackles GTB, MTN, AirPeace over alleged violations - ITREALMS

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The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has launched a major inquiry into widespread consumer complaints against leading players in the banking, telecommunications, and aviation sectors, with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), MTN Nigeria and AirPeace on spotlight respectively, over alleged violations, reports ITREALMS.

Director, Corporate Affairs, FCCPC, Ondaje Ijagwu, informed 
ITREALMS on Sunday that the inquisitions, would commence on Tuesday, December 3rd, 4th, and 5th respectively, are intended to address issues of poor service delivery, exploitative practices, and potential consumer rights violations.

OrientalNews Summit'24: Muda Yusuf tackles Nigeria's path to green economy transition - ITREALMS

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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Center for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE), Dr. Muda Yusuf, would drive discussion on Nigeria's policy direction to establishing pathway towards economic recovery in line with global green economy initiative.

Yusuf, a renowned economist and former Director General, DG, of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, is the chairman of the 3rd National Conference being put together by Oriental News Nigeria, coming up on July 25th, 2024, at Radisson Blue GRA Ikeja, Lagos by 9am.

CBN tackles FX transactions abuses in clearing liabilities backlog - ITREALMS

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in its bid to clear the backlog of outstanding foreign exchange liabilities, has paid approximately USD 2.0 billion across various sectors, including manufacturing, aviation, and petroleum, reports ITREALMS.

The Bank has also cleared up the entire liability of 14 banks and started settlements with foreign airlines.

WATISE 2023 tackles critical telecoms infrastructure issues, assembles stakeholders - ITREALMS

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The maiden edition of the West Africa Telecoms Infrastructure Summit and Exhibition (WATISE) would be tackling the critical telecoms infrastructure issues, just as the organisers have assembled relevant stakeholders, reports ITREALMS.

A press statement available to ITREALMS from the organisers of WATISE, noted that respite beckons for telecoms consumers in West Africa over poor network issues as critical stakeholders in the industry converge in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria to proffer solutions on the challenges of telecoms Infrastructure which is affecting the growth of the region’s digital economy.

Crisis in Cross River PDP: National Assembly caucus tackles Gov. Ayade

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Indications are rife over unhealthy crisis in the Cross River State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over claims by the state’s National Assembly Caucus of highhandedness and non-inclusive congresses by Governor Ben Ayade, reports ITRealms.

The lawmakers from the state in a letter to the National Chairman of the PDP dated October 12, 2017 warned that unless something urgently is done to remedy the situation, the party stands a poor chance in the 2019 elections.

The letter signed by nine legislators led by Senator Rose Oko (Cross River North) accused the governor of hijacking the state congresses to the exclusion of stakeholders.

“We bring to your attention the state of the structure of the PDP in Cross River State. The 2016 party congresses ostensibly saw the election of new officials for the state, local government area and ward executive officers for the party. There was however an aberration in the manner the congresses were done, as it excluded party stakeholders and elders across the state that became tantamount to a selection rather than an election. The implication of this is that there is now a general apathy (sic) and despondency among party members in the state, most of whom have felt the need to move out of the party to other parties, and indeed have done so,” the petition reads.

The aggrieved lawmakers stated that despite several meetings with the governor and which had in attendance Sen. Ben Obi, National Secretary of the PDP, former Governor Liyel Imoke and the three senators from the state, Ayade had remained unmoved to make the process more inclusive and transparent.

According to them, Senator Owan Enoh decamped to the APC for the non-inclusive congress, fearing that if the situation is not addressed, members of the party could leave for other parties.

The petition was signed by Senator Rose Oko, Senator Gershom Bassey, Hon. Ayibe Ngoro, Hon. Bassey Eko Ewa, and Hon. Daniel Asuquo.

Others include, Hon. Eja Mbora, Hon. Jarigbe Agom, Hon. Essien Ayi and Hon. Legor Idagbo.  

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TEDxIkeja to gather thought leaders, tackles troubled world

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Thought leaders from different spheres of life who are adept at applying native intelligence to solve problems would meet at the 2017 edition of TEDxIkeja to offer panacea to a world troubled by myriad of challenges.

TEDxIkeja is a TED New York licensed conference. It tells native stories and showcase unusual ideas worth sharing to inspire people to change their lives, communities, and the world. Annually, the forum attracts thought leaders who offer innovation, enterprise, and optimism as antidotes to global challenges.

Themed where do we go from here, TEDxIkeja 2017 would dissect the various ugly incidences that are occurring in Europe, Asia, USA, and Africa, and offer native solution to these incidences through storytelling techniques.   

In a statement released by the curator and organiser of TEDxIkeja, Ademola Adeshola, the world is at a crossroads and the present crop of leaders have not provided solutions to terrorism, terrorism financing, recession, food shortage, tsunami, and global warming.

“The fang of terrorism has sunk deep into the social-political structure of the world system while immigration has become a burden. Technology is disrupting everything. The new world has not spared our belief systems, culture, and philosophy. Yet the dividing lines between the truth and facts has blurred”, Adeshola said.

Expatiating on the thought leaders expected on October 14 at the forum, Adeshola said TEDxIkeja 2017 would aggregate ideas that facilitate new thinking. Such ideas include social reputation algorithm, suspended thinking, soft power, visual metaphor, Lassa fever detecting kits, something for the girls, stories from Internally Displaced Persons [IDP] and in need of ideology.

“We are fighting for the rights of everything and everybody from climate change, gay right to job cut. It feels like the history of humanity is swallowed up by liberalism”, Adeshola said.

He added that those expected at TEDxIkeja 2017 are the CEO of Inlaks, Femi Adeoti; CEO of Quadrant Company, Bolaji Okusaga; Head of Digital banking, Alat, Dele Adeyinka; winner of Big Brother Naija reality show, Efe Ejemba; MD/CEO, Studio 24, Ifeanyi Oputa; CTO, Social Lender, Bade Adeshemowo.

Others include Visual Artist, Visual Collaborative LLC; Comic Republic, spoken word artist, Cherry Enterfield and other thought leaders that would share native intelligence at the event.   

Mo Abudu, Joe Odumakin, Tunji Olugbodi, Yele Okeremi, Deremi Atanda, Kenny Black, and Deolu Akinyemi are among previous speakers.       

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