Managing contact information for businesses and organisations in today’s highly connected world can be quite fragmented. While business owners and managers understand the need to always have well-coordinated presence and visibility, the quest gets complicated by all the information available out there. To accurately connect with businesses and services calls for extensive disambiguation both for the businesses and their customers. An indigenous IT firm, DigitalRig has unveiled a seamless Business Directory platform called Beekeys.

Online directories and information portals provide listing services and tools to create connections between businesses and customers but things still get difficult due to other challenges including ‘volatile’ street naming systems, non-availability of ‘functional’ ZIP or Postcode systems, relocating/expanding business presence and many other issues. Bridging this gap, Beekeys (business keys), is a platform built to address these different challenges and more for businesses and their customers.
Business visibility has totally departed from the conventional putting signages in the premises or online websites and banner placement.

The new Beekeys business directory brings all conventional branding to one platform and simplifying it with just three alphabets making customers and clients to locate businesses easily online. This is by integrating webpages, zip codes and branch networks with top notch search engine optimisation (SEO). This platform becomes an indispensable tool for business owners and founders today due to the growing numbers of Nigerian internet users placed around tens of millions and added with the high level of mobile internet usage and adoption in the country.

Speaking on the importance of Beekeys, Dipe Adedeji, the Chief Executive of DigitalRig Limited opined that” the Beekeys is a platform that allows firms to be visible using simple and unique names that their customers would easily remember such as three letter words or acronyms. We realised during our research that many Nigerians don’t know either their zip codes or post codes, with Beekeys, the platforms allow people to remember a simplified name that is uniquely allotted to a company. With a click the whole information about the organisation is up.”

“With Beekeys’ address and mapping system, the change of address by many organisations would be sorted out. This is unlike the usual solutions that they find it hard to implement this on their various websites. The platform addresses these challenges.”, he added.

The platform has a great landing page that is mobile and user friendly. This feature enables those that one to register on the go use their mobile sites in simple and precise steps. Integrating critical things like Corporate Affairs Commission’s business number, which are verified by Beekeys. This singular feature sets the platform aside from tons of listing sites. Integrating video and pictures, an organisation can register as much as many branches using one singular account. No post code, no problem, with this platform, you do not need to remember post codes of all the branches, all an organisation just has to do is follow the easy steps for business registration and upload.
The company announced that business registration on the Beekeys platform is free especially for business headquarters unless that there are multiple locations that would make the business pay annually for a token fee of about hundred Naira for a location.

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This is to alert the general public on a recent false allegation against the troops of Operation LAFIA DOLE in the North East region of the Country. The allegation that troops are involved in illicit farming and fishing activities in Baga town is absolutely false, thus a campaign of calumny. It is baseless and unfounded and therefore should be discountenanced. The Nigerian Army urges citizens to always verify such allegations before forming opinions on sensitive subject of this magnitude bearing mind that such claims have implications on national security.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai has promised to provide befitting living accommodation for officers and soldiers at Abogo Largema Military Cantonment, Biu in Borno State.

He made the pledge while addressing troops after he inaugurated several water projects across the barracks on Wednesday the 2nd of September, 2020.

He assured of his commitment to ensuring improved living standard of officers and soldiers as well as their families across all Nigerian Army Barracks in Nigeria, adding that improving welfare of personnel remained his utmost concern.

While expressing dissatisfaction with the quality of work being done on the renovation works, Buratai promised to direct army engineers to embark on proper renovation works in the Cantonment very soon.

According to him – “We will try to see how we can improve on your barrack accommodation, but it seems there is still much work to be done. We will still build more”.

Gen Buratai commended the efforts of the commanding officers of 331 Artillery Battalion Lt Col AY Ardo and 231 Tank Battalion Lt Col ME Obi in addressing the perennial water challenge that had faced the barrack over time.

“I want to thank the commanding officers for their resourcefulness towards solving the perennial water problems in this cantonment.

“This initiative is highly commended because it is one of the cardinal principles in my vision which is -“To have a professionally responsive Nigerian Army in the discharge of its constitutional roles”.

“The commanding officers have shown the responsiveness in the provision of water to meet the need of the soldiers and their families to have portable water for their consumption and domestic use.

“I want to also urge the Commanding Officers to be judicious in the use of the resources at their disposal no matter how small,’’ he said.

He also commended the troops for their efforts in stabilising the security of their Area of Responsibility, urging them to continue to ensure that there were no security threats in the area.

According to him, – “while you ensure you train, you must also continue to attend to the security threats that arise from time to time.

“As such, I want you to remain steadfast, loyal and committed to the country, and obey your superiors and surely we will move Nigerian Army forward and achieve our mandate of defending our country from any external aggression as well as safeguarding its territorial integrity,” he said.

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As it is part of everything in life,the judiciary has come under the spotlight especially the appointment of judges and their duration. The Vice President of the Country , Prof Yemi Osibanjo, a proffesor of law spoke on the need for the need for the legal body to start re-evaluating the process of appointment of judges. This he spoke in a virtual platform.

In his words, Osibanjo opined that “There is need for an urgent, honest and frank conversation about judicial reforms especially, the selection and appointment of judges in Nigeria, given the significant roles judges play in the polity, social justice and democracy itself.”

“This was the crux of my conversation at the virtual roundtable organized by the Justice Research Institute themed Selection and Appointment of Judges: Lessons for Nigeria.”

Apart from the appointment of judges and the need to evolve the country’s judiciary to be in tandem with the current realities of our time, it has been said that the judiciary in the country is antiquated and running on colonial attitudes. Lately, the Nigerian Bar Association is battling with the break away factions trying to open or float a new association called the New Nigerian Bar Association (NNBA) which they have cited a lot of things such an carrying the Northern faction and others.

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A four-day training for officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) began yesterday, Monday, August 31, 2020 in EFCC Academy, Karu, Abuja. The law enforcement officers would within the period undergo workshops on public speaking, cloud computing, dark web and artificial intelligence.

Acting Commandant of the Academy, Itam Nnaghe Obono, who declared the workshop open noted that regular training was the Commission’s way of building staff capacity and charged the Commission’s officers to apply professionalism in the conduct of their duties and in all their official engagements with members of the public.

Represented by the Head, Legal Studies of the Academy, George Adebola, Obono explained that the media relations and public speaking training would prepare the officers to identify fake news and equip them properly to communicate with all those they relate with in the course of their duties.

Given that cloud computing, dark web and artificial intelligence are the latest additions to Information and Communication Technology, Obono said it was compelling that the officers developed the capacity on new the trends.

Acting Director, Public Affairs Department, Aisha Larai Musa while presenting an overview of the “Mass Media and its Importance to the Fight Against Corruption,” tasked the participating officers on the need to shield classified official information from unauthorized persons in order not to imperil the sanctity of the Commission’s operations and reputation. She further charged the participating officers to be worthy ambassadors of the Commission in the course of their duties.

It could be recalled that a similar training on “Crypto Currency Investigation Techniques and Financial Intelligence Techniques,” had earlier been carried out by the Academy, for the Commission’s investigators, which aimed at intelligence gathering on the virtual economy. The training sets the stage for commencement of investigations into crypto currency transactions and businesses and the prosecution of any criminal element behind any fraudulent crypto currency transaction.

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