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Nigeria's UBA Plc bags Africa's Emerging Global Bank Award
Quality of service committees to investigate networks
Web, media giants seek silver bullet for protecting copyrights online
Six outstanding community heroes honoured
Wild & wacky Kenyan radio station keeps listeners on the hop - and in the swim
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Branding | | NIGERIA Nigeria's UBA Plc bags Africa's Emerging Global Bank Award
At a glittering ceremony in Washington DC, United States of America, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Nigeria's largest bank, on the night of Thursday October 18, 2007, bagged the Emerging Global Bank Award, beating strong contenders, JP Morgan Chase and Standard Bank in the process.
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CRM | | NIGERIA Quality of service committees to investigate networks
[Jonah Iboma] The quest towards finding a lasting solution to the lingering poor quality of services being offered by operators has made the Nigerian Communications Commission to go some extra miles. Besides issuing warning to operators to ensure that they upped the quality of services they offer end-users, the NCC also has set up four industry-wide committees to address the problem.
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Digital | | KENYA Alcatel wins TEAMS contract
[Zachary Ochieng] Alcatel Lucent, the French telecommunications giant, has been awarded the tender for the construction of The East African Marine Systems (TEAMS) a US$110 million fibre optic cable system, connecting between Mombasa in Kenya and Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman.
BOTSWANA Botswana to embrace ICTs
[Rebaone Odirile] In its bid to catch up with the world in embracing and using information and communication technologies (ICTs), the Botswana government has sent a delegation of high-ranking officials to harness more knowledge at an ICT forum in Califronia.
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Eventing | | WEST AFRICA e-Finance conference in Sierra Leone
[Bai-Bai Sesay] The one day Financial Technologies conference, organised by the SBTS Group was held in the capital Freetown on Thursday, 18 October.
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Online Media | | AFRICA Web, media giants seek silver bullet for protecting copyrights online
[Fred J. Aun] A group of heavy-hitting media and Internet players have hammered out a plan to thwart the uploading and Web publication of copyrighted material, particularly video clips.
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Promotions | | SOUTHERN AFRICA Six outstanding community heroes honoured
 A leading southern African grassroots awards program, the Jet Community Awards, honoured six outstanding community-based organisations for their inspirational contributions to community upliftment at a ceremony in Johannesburg recently. The six 2007 winners were selected from 31 exceptional regional finalists from across southern Africa.
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Radio | | KENYA Wild & wacky Kenyan radio station keeps listeners on the hop - and in the swim
 The fearless and wacky Hot 96 breakfast radio crew of Teddy Muthusi, Sandra Obudo and Yvonne Okwara were at it again with another mad stunt on their punkd for a buck daily feature - where they give money to any listener who successfully completes bizarre tasks.
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Retail | | WEST AFRICA The dark side of Africa's chocolate
On Halloween night, kids across the writer's neighbourhood where she lives in the United States can be heard howling with delight. Veins spiked with sugar and goody bags overflowing with chocolate bars propel tiny devils, ghouls and goblins from door to door.
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| | Upcoming events | Monitoring and evaluation AMREF Headquarters - Nairobi, Kenya, 22 October Promax/BDA Africa 2007 Promax/BDA Africa - Johannesburg, 25 October 2007 Africa SMME Awards and Conference Africa Growth Research - Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 October Africa Media & Broadcasting Congress 2007 - Johannesburg, 29 October | More... Submit an event | | |
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