By Nnamdi Odumody

Aidah Bot is a platform from Ghana which utilizes artificial intelligence to automate customer engagement and provides ticketing support for businesses on their digital platforms.

At Aidah our mission is to connect companies with their online customers through our communication platform. We provide businesses with a multi-channel/automated messenger and empowering companies to deliver better experiences with their sales and support teams

It helps businesses in providing instant customer support to their customers while enabling access to different channels such as social media platforms and websites, from a single platform, saving them the hassle of switching between platforms. Aidah makes it easier for clients to respond to customer queries much faster by giving end customers enriched experiences.

Its aim is to automate business processes which are mundane and allow organizations to focus on the core areas of their business. Aidah helps your customers engage with your brand in a peer to peer conversational manner by analyzing the customer’s question and delivering a suitable response.

In Nigeria, Ghana and the rest of Africa, a whole lot of businesses both small, medium and large organizations run their business processes in mundane methods not utilizing cloud based solutions which will enable them to be agile, flexible and offer their customers unique experiences. Aidah hopes to fix this friction by making them digitally transformed.

Amaecom Global is looking to add a Developer with Microsoft Dynamics CRM experience to its team in Abuja, Nigeria. Amaecom is Nigeria’s largest public sector-focused asset financing and leasing company. It has more than 30 branches, and employs excess of 350 staff in its Group which plays in manufacturing, asset financing, mobility, and more.

Amaecom Global Ltd (http://amaecomglobal.com) is an indigenous company registered in Nigeria with the Corporate Affairs Commission to provide financial services in areas of consumer and corporate business asset acquisitions, covering both private and public sectors. Our services range from asset acquisition to hire purchase financing through two core products – PayNow PayLater and Instant Loan.

The ideal candidate for this opportunity has:
• 3+ years of experience working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Excellent verbal and nonverbal communication skills
• Ability work effectively in both an independent and team environment

This position is offering an excellent benefits package.

To apply please send resumes to as follows.

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Application Closing Date
5th July, 2019.

Method of Application
To Apply: Send your resume to info@amaecomglobal.com

Huawei had estimated that it would lose about $30 billion internationally as a result of the bans in U.S. But it seems the company will cover a good part of that money by asking American companies which license its patents to pay more royalties, CNBC reports; Verizon, a leading telco, could be owing $1 billion.  Of course, doing that could be seen as using “monopoly” power [think Apple and Qualcomm legal case], but I am not sure who will make that call right now: ‘CEO Ren Zhengfei says he “may try to get some money” from firms using the company’s intellectual property’..

Huawei may demand more royalties from U.S. firms for technology they’re using that’s been patented by the Chinese telecom giant, experts say, as the beleaguered firm looks to fight back against continued pressure from Washington.

It would mark a big shift in strategy for Huawei, which typically is not seen as especially litigious in terms of intellectual property rights (IPR), even though it holds some crucial patents that underpin the world of telecommunication.

Last week, Reuters reported that Huawei had asked Verizon to pay $1 billion in royalties for more than 230 of Huawei’s patents. The Wall Street Journal reported that the patents related to Huawei range from core network equipment to so-called internet of things technology — defined as physical devices that are linked to one another over the internet. The Verizon case is not a legal case at the moment.

By Mutiu Iyanda

 From the north to the south, professionals, public analysts and government officials have accused leaders in the south for not delivering good governance to the people even though good governance is entrenched in the constitutions of most countries comprising the global south.   Ensuring good governance in the south, governments and philanthropists in the global north believe that independent media and freedom of the press must be deep-rooted in the region. Over the last three decades, this notion among others, have been the factors for the flow of aid to the region with a view of removing obstacles such as low professional journalistic standards, funds paucity, weak technical skills and legal frameworks preventing independent media from reporting corruption, crimes among other sensitive socioeconomic and political issues.

From the United States government, the European Union, USAID to the Japanese government through Japan’s International Cooperation Agency, media aid in terms of funding and training are entering global south’s countries every year. In most cases, governments in the global north do dissociate their foreign policy objectives from the donors’ philosophies. Though the percent of media aid from the general aid flowing into the south is less than 0.4%, independent media and professionals are making a significant impact after receiving financial assistance and training towards the coverage of the issues threatening good governance.

Aiding Coverage of Sensitive Issues

In 2017, in line with its objectives of helping to fight corruption in Nigeria, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation declared about $9 million in funding to advance accountability and anti-corruption efforts. My colleagues and I investigated the impact of the funding and others received in 2014 by Premium Times, The Cable and others. Our analysis of the issues reported by the journalists trained through the funding indicates that the journalists covered accountability, corruption and crime issues after the training more than when the media received no fund and journalists trained.

Flow of Aid for Global Rankings Surge

Since the donors released the grants to assist reportage of sensitive issues, in our second study, we analysed Nigeria’s global ratings in the specific areas within the time that the donors released the money to private media agencies for the training and empowerment of journalists to cover critical areas of corruption, crime and the economy. Our results show that the high coverage of corruption linked with Nigeria’s scores on diversion of public funds and, irregular payments and bribes. Analysis further indicates that corruption and accountability coverage by the media contributed to the country’s poor corruption and accountability ranking by 69.1% and 15.5% respectively.

Like other scholars and researchers, our conclusion is that media in Nigeria and other countries in the global south would continue to follow practices or models of the media in the global north as long as soft (training) and hard (funding) aid continue to flow to the independent media. However, this should not be seen as a total threat to the region. It should be seen as a reality everyone in the region has to contend with as long as the despotic leadership remains.