By Chinedu Nwosu As the world marks one year to go until the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Procter & Gamble and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) affirmed the company’s commitment to the Olympic and Paralympic Movements, with confirmation of its Worldwide Partnership for the next four Olympic and Paralympic Games....

By Precious John The African Energy Chamber (EnergyChamber) and the Mozambican Oil & Gas Chamber (CPGM) have signed a cooperation agreement to support the development of local content in Mozambique and the attraction of investments into key segments of the country’s energy industry. With multi-billion dollar LNG projects under-construction, including...

..Built For The Way Business Is Done Today By Chinedu Nwosu Nigeria Rugby has announced its partnership with Rugby Outreach UK to provide Rugby fitness, strength and conditioning advice to local teams across Nigeria. Technical Director, Abubakar Yaro says the partnership will help local teams across the country improve their...

By Chinedu Nwosu Nigeria Rugby has announced its partnership with Rugby Outreach UK to provide Rugby fitness, strength and conditioning advice to local teams across Nigeria. Technical Director, Abubakar Yaro says the partnership will help local teams across the country improve their fitness and conditioning required in the game. The...

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu AUDI AG, Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., SWARCO Traffic Systems GmbH and the University of Kaiserslautern July 8, 2020 announced the successful completion of the world’s first-announced Connected Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) of Tomorrow (ConVeX) consortium C-V2X trial. Initiated in December 2016, the trial utilized a test bed and...

By Celestine Okorie Sharjah Asset Management (SAM), the investment arm of the Sharjah government, has announced the launch of a new company through its partnership with the largest engineering consulting firm in Malaysia (CHSS). The new alliance, called Asool CHSS, will work to provide the most effective levels of engineering...

By Catherine Sbeglia Mentor Graphics, which was acquired by Siemens in 2017 for US$4.5 billion, has joined the O-RAN Alliance. Mentor, which specializes in pre- and post-silicon verification and validation solutions, will work to develop verification and validation requirements for open standards-based, highly configurable network development for 5G mobile network...

By Chinedu Nwosu Integral and Family & Football have announced a new joint venture partnership focused on augmenting the level of football talent identification, development and management, on the African continent. After almost a year of planning and working, Integral, the leading African sport management company, now enhances its service...

NTT Docomo parent NTT Group and KDDI joined a study to assess development of an interoperable framework for digital payments intended to increase uptake of the services in Japan. In a statement, digital currency trader and organiser of the research DeCurret said expectations on cashless transactions have been “growing” and...

By James Blackman Japanese duo Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation have jointly acquired a 30 per cent ownership stake Netherlands-based mapping company HERE Technologies. The two companies have co-invested in HERE via holding company COCO Tech Holding in the Netherlands, which the pair established together for...