By Kola Boluwaji

The debate on the desirability of stricter tobacco control laws is on, as the Tobacco Control Bill (TCB) reaches the public hearing stage at the House of Representatives. Both the pros and the antis have been advancing their arguments based on the facts available to each group and most times, these arguments are prejudiced. 

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Ifie Sekibo, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Heritage Bank Limited

Heritage Bank Limited has sponsored Nigeria’s first Virtual Arts Museum, a project of the Pan Atlantic University.

The museum, named the Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art is an online, free, searchable database of Nigerian art from the beginning of the twentieth century. Its main aim is to serve as an educational resource that will contribute to the dissemination of knowledge on modern Nigerian art and artists among the widest possible audience.

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Samsung unveiled the third generation of its big-screen Note smartphone line, the Galaxy Note 3, at events in New York City's Times Square and Berlin on Wednesday.

In evolving the Note line, Samsung says it's attempted to make the phone "slimmer, lighter, faster, larger and better." In addition to a larger screen with a "warm, textured" design, the Note 3 includes a new security system called Knox, which lets sensitive apps and data run in a protected environment called the “container.”

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Ecobank Nigeria has announced the deployment of toll free telephone lines in a bid to boost its customer service delivery.

According to a statement from the bank, the toll free lines will impact on service delivery positively as customers will be encouraged to use the lines for speedy resolution of issues and other customer-related activities.

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Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank

Access Bank Plc has said it will explore multi-channel banking and retail franchise platform as part of its goals to move to the next level.

The bank also said by 2015, it hoped to have become a diversified, “high-performing bank” in the country, using technology as a competitive advantage.

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Culled from Reuters

Two years after hitching its fate to Microsoft's Windows Phone software, Nokia collapsed into the arms of the U.S. software giant on Tuesday, agreeing to sell its main handset business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion).

Nokia, once the world's dominant handset maker, has failed to close a yawning lead opened up by Apple and Samsung in the highly competitive market for smartphones and will now concentrate on its networking equipment unit, navigation business and technology patents.

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SAP Africa has been recognised as Africa’s best place to work by the internationally accredited Top Employers Institute at a gala awards ceremony held in Johannesburg. As well as securing first place in the category ‘Overall Top Employer Africa’, SAP Africa also secured first place in the ‘Industry IT Top Employer’ in South Africa category, as well as fifth place in the ‘Overall Top Employers South Africa’ category. The company was praised for its skills development efforts and its focus upon education, learning and employee development.

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