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Dave Ibemere

Education: Bachelor of Science Mass Communication (2015), Master of Science Mass Communication University of Lagos (2018), Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab: Advanced digital reporting 2024

Experience: Business/Financial Analyst, BusinessDay Newspaper (2017-2019), Data journalist/financial analyst, Dataphyte (2019), Business Editor/HOD, Ripples Nigeria (2019-2021)

Awards: Staff of the Year, BusinessDay Research (2019), Awardee IFRA (French government) research award, UNILAG(2018), Information is a Beautiful international award-longlist nominee (2019), Top Business Editor Legit.ng (2022, 2023, 2024)

Dave Ibemere is a senior business editor at Legit.ng. He is a financial journalist with over a decade of experience in print and online media. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of Lagos. He is a member of the African Academy for Open-Source Investigation (AAOSI), the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and other media think tank groups. He previously worked with The Guardian, BusinessDay, and headed the business desk at Ripples Nigeria. Email: dave.ibemere@corp.legit.ng.

5584 articles published since 20 Sep 2021

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new features on WhatsApp, increases number of users in a group to 512

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new features on WhatsApp, increases number of users in a group to 512

Technology

4 years ago

Access, Zenith, GT Bank, six other Nigerian banks reveal how much Nigerians borrowed and refuse to pay

Access, Zenith, GT Bank, six other Nigerian banks reveal how much Nigerians borrowed and refuse to pay

Economy

4 years ago

Exercise Books, Textbooks, other Print materials to Become more Costly as Cost of Paper Imports hit N1.23trn

Exercise Books, Textbooks, other Print materials to Become more Costly as Cost of Paper Imports hit N1.23trn

Money

4 years ago

Dangote now 68 richest man in the world as he makes over N11.4bn in 8 hours, Elon Musk, 3 others lose $36bn

Dangote now 68 richest man in the world as he makes over N11.4bn in 8 hours, Elon Musk, 3 others lose $36bn

Money

4 years ago

Report suggests Africa's Richest man, Dangote will need to borrow N456.7bn to complete his refinery project

Report suggests Africa's Richest man, Dangote will need to borrow N456.7bn to complete his refinery project

Economy

4 years ago

Mafab, MTN set to rollout 5G in August as FG list out first six states to enjoy the technology in Nigeria

Mafab, MTN set to rollout 5G in August as FG list out first six states to enjoy the technology in Nigeria

Economy

4 years ago

India tops the list of countries buying Nigerian products, while China is absent from the top ten

India tops the list of countries buying Nigerian products, while China is absent from the top ten

Economy

4 years ago

Major commodities exported during the period by Nigeria to Italy were petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude (N442.1bn), leather.

Elon Musk suspends acquisition of Twitter, as the company value drops by N3.73trn in two weeks

Elon Musk suspends acquisition of Twitter, as the company value drops by N3.73trn in two weeks

Money

4 years ago

Billionaire Elon Musk's move to acquire Twitter is officially on hold as he demands clarity on spam accounts, bot that accounts for 5% of Twitter’s 229m users.

Man who donated N20 to Adamu Garba's presidential ambition demands his money back, shares receipt

Man who donated N20 to Adamu Garba's presidential ambition demands his money back, shares receipt

Economy

4 years ago

A twitter user who donated to the presidential ambition of Adamu Garba to purchase APC's nomination N100m form has demanded for refunds or he get a lawyer.

Nigeria to use borrowed fund for subsidy payment as Russia-Ukraine war stretches Buhari’s govt finances

Nigeria to use borrowed fund for subsidy payment as Russia-Ukraine war stretches Buhari’s govt finances

Economy

4 years ago

Nigeria would use borrowed funds to cover subsidy payments in the next months, as the Federal government's finances are put under strain as a result of Russia.

More trouble for federal government as Russia sells cheap crude oil to Nigeria's biggest customer, India

More trouble for federal government as Russia sells cheap crude oil to Nigeria's biggest customer, India

Energy

4 years ago

India, the world’s third-largest energy consuming country and biggest buyers of Nigerian oil in the few years is now buying up cheap Russia oil reports say.

Funke Opeke: The 'crazy' smart Nigerian woman who just sold her company for N131.19bn to a U.S firm

Funke Opeke: The 'crazy' smart Nigerian woman who just sold her company for N131.19bn to a U.S firm

Technology

4 years ago

Mainone of Nigeria's leading technology company will be getting a new owner from next year, after the founder Funke Opeke decided to sell in a N130bn deal.

JPMorgan rating could mean Nigeria's new $950m loans from international market will be very expensive

JPMorgan rating could mean Nigeria's new $950m loans from international market will be very expensive

Money

4 years ago

Nigeria is may be set to obtain one of its most expensive loans if it goes ahead to borrow from the international market by issuing a new Eurobond this month.

NYIF: FG Urges Nigerian youths who applied for loans and received approval to come for their loan requests

NYIF: FG Urges Nigerian youths who applied for loans and received approval to come for their loan requests

Money

4 years ago

The Federal government has called on Nigerian youths who applied for loan was successful to come out and claim their money or risk losing all in few months.

More trouble in aviation sector, as workers embark on two-day warning strike, list demands

More trouble in aviation sector, as workers embark on two-day warning strike, list demands

Economy

4 years ago

He said that for the various agencies within the Ministry of Aviation, the Minimum Wage Consequential Adjustment has remained unimplemented since 2019 it noted.

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