Pascal Oparada

Education: Mass Communications, Yaba College of Technology, Google News Initiative (GNI) News Lab: Advanced digital reporting 2024

Experience: Brands and Marketing Reporter, Daily Independent (2008-2014), Brands and Tech Reporter, TheNiche (2014-2019), Brands and Marketing Editor, The Nigerian Xpress (2019-2021), Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ)

Awards: PwC Media Excellence Award (2018)

For over a decade, Pascal Oparada has reported on tech, energy, stocks, investment, and the economy. He has worked in many media organizations such as Daily Independent, TheNiche newspaper, and the Nigerian Xpress. He is a 2018 PwC Media Excellence Award winner. Email:pascal.oparada@corp.legit.ng

6499 articles published since 29 Nov 2021

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It will lead to mass hunger: NLC kicks against planned Excise Duty on soft drinks in Nigeria

Industry

4 years ago

Man who has received COVID-19 vaccine 12 times says he wants more

Industry

4 years ago

We borrow a lot of money because of insecurity, low revenue, Nigerian government says

Economy

4 years ago

Man sues former boss who paid him N379k in grease-stained coins after several months of asking for his money

Money

4 years ago

Small businesses to benefit from FG’s N250 billion loans in 2022

Economy

4 years ago

Google Maps helps Police arrest notorious criminal after 20 years on the run

Technology

4 years ago

IPOB cattle ban: Northern group threaten to retaliate, to boycott Igbo businesses

Economy

4 years ago

A Norther group, Coalition of Northern Group has issued a threat that northerners will stop patronising businesses run by Igbos in the North if IPOB bans cattle

Woman with Down syndrome, who was rejected by employers, founds N498m business

Industry

4 years ago

A woman who found it hard securing a job because of her genetic condition has successfully starts a firm which runs into millions of naira and employs others.

Opay, Flutterwave led African startups in funding in 2021

Industry

4 years ago

Startups in Africa are making giant strides led by Nigerian fintech companies which have raised trillions of naira in the last few years driven by mobile money.

Cryptocurrency scammers stole N5.8 trillion worth of crypto in 2021

Technology

4 years ago

Cryptocurrency scammers have hauled in a record amount of cryptos worth N5.8 billion in 2021 alone. The scams happened mostly through a new system known as DeFi

Audit report says Customs, Immigration, others failed to remit N127.1bn to FG

Economy

4 years ago

Over N127.1 billion has not been remitted to the coffers of the Nigerian government by agencies, departments and ministries of government. Customs has the most.

Nigerians Who Shop on Amazon, Facebook, Others to Pay VAT in New Digital Services Law

Economy

4 years ago

A new tax drive by the federal government of Nigeria now requires that foreign companies like Amazon and Facebook where Nigerians shop on pay Value Added Tax.

Residents in COVID-19 quarantine trade sanitary pads, cigarettes for food to survive

Technology

4 years ago

About 13 million people in a Chinese city are trading supplies for food in order to survive a lockdown imposed on them when three cases of COVID-19 were found.

FG begins to take tax on bonds, short-term assets belonging to Nigerians

Economy

4 years ago

The Nigerian government has begun taking income taxes on bonds and other short-term assets after it was stopped from doing so by a court verdict 10 years ago.

Woman who reviews videos on TikTok sues platform for causing her trauma

Technology

4 years ago

A woman in California has taken the popular video sharing platform, TikTok to court for causing her mental problem after reviewing videos and other contents.

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