Volkswagen opens Rwanda's first car plant : Rwanda’s first domestically built car rolled off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s new factory in Kigali on Wednesday as Europe’s biggest carmaker taps into demand for ride-sharing to expand in the region. Despite low levels of car ownership in Rwanda, Volkswagen hopes to both sell vehicles and use them in an Uber-like car-sharing system that will allow people to book rides using their smartphones. Some will also be sold into neighboring nations. Rwanda to open its first smartphone factory: The Minister for ICT and Innovation stated, “Smartphones are important ICT tools since there are some digital services that only require smartphones such as access to land services among others. There is also need to ensure affordability of smartphones whose high cost prevents citizens from benefiting from various digital services. . We hope that the plant to locally produce smartphones will boost access and also economy,” My opin...
Some vandals allegedly responsible for attacks on communities in Lagos and Ogun states are escaping in large numbers to riverine communities in the Ilaje and Ese-Odo local government areas of Ondo State. Investigations on Monday showed that the insurgents, who escaped the intensified aerial bombardment by the Nigerian Air Force of their camps at Arepo, Ogun, and Ikorodu, Lagos, had been sighted in Ore, Okitipupa and the riverine communities of Ondo State. A top security source told one of our correspondents that security reports showed that some of the militants had sneaked into the Ondo reverine communities. He said, ‘‘Arepo can no longer contain them. Some of them have run to Ondo to hide in the riverine areas.’’ It was further gathered that some of them were still trapped in Arepo and other communities in Lagos and were making frantic moves to flee. A source in Ese-Odo said since the military started the bombardment of the militants’ camps on Friday, many of them ...
The Anglican bishop of Ihiala diocese in Anambra State, Rt Rev’d Prof Israel Kelue Okoye has called on the government at all levels to eliminate financial wastages in whatever form and increase the salaries of workers, saying that the debacle over minimum wage implementation in Nigeria is unnecessary. The observation was contained in his presidential address presented at St Mary’s Church, Isseke in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State during the second session of the third synod of the diocese. Bishop Okoye noted that market forces, coupled with greed and financial rascality will continue to devalue any amount paid to workers until leaders device means of liberating the country from dependency and economic parasitism to developing the productive sector of the economy. According to him, “One issue that has not been given proper attention is why the value of Nigerian money cannot compete favourably with other currencies that dominate ...
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