Approved Standards for School Buses in Nigeria – Stakeholders Workshop

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Worried by the incessant and avoidable accidents involving buses conveying pupils and students to and from school; and in order to achieve high safety standards of vehicles and minimal risks of commuting students and pupils, the Federal Road Safety Corps [FRSC] in collaboration with Standards Organisation of Nigeria [SON] has developed standards for school buses [...]

Introduction to Microfinance

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Microfinance is the provision of a broad range of financial services such as savings, loans, payment services, money transfers and insurance to poor and low-income persons, households and their microenterprises.Microfinance services are provided by three types of institutions: formal institutions, such as microfinance banks, rural banks and deposit money banks; semi-formal institutions, such as non-government [...]

Road Safety

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It is no doubt that a greater percentage of our daily living is spent commuting, especially on private, local, stateĀ  roads and highways or motorways We commute, to work; to church; to visit family and friends; to the airport; to the seaport; to the market; to the bank; and to ….. It is imperativee that [...]

Common Sense not with us anymore

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Robert McKenzie’s response to Alan M Webers’ “Three Rules for These Time” on Conversation Starter at Harvard Business Publishing. Dear Alan, I am in total agreement with you! For too long the class room has taught management as if it were all about economic performance, shareholder value, and the share price of publically traded companies. [...]

Assessing Nigeria’s Readiness for Government 2.0: NITDA’s role

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Transforming governments is not easy. While technology alone cannot transform governments, governments today cannot transform without technology. In the fast paced world of technology, new approaches constantly extend the boundaries of what is possible. The pace of change is evidenced by the fact that terms like SOA, WOA, community sourcing, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and Web [...]