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

7127 articles published since 29 Nov 2021

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Wizkid clinches Flutterwave’s Global Brand Ambassador deal

Technology

4 years ago

How I found N567bn in my Coinbase account for a few minutes due to a glitch, Nigerian man says

Money

4 years ago

Nigerians in Italy will not renew passports until 2080, man cries out, alleges extortion by passport officials

Industry

4 years ago

Shehu Sani: We threw away Buhari’s Unreasonable loan requests in the 8th National Assembly

Economy

4 years ago

Zenith, Access Bank lead Nigerian banks to rake in N88.9bn in 9 months from account maintenance

Money

4 years ago

Omicron: UK yields to pressure, set to remove Nigeria from Red List

Europe

4 years ago

Facebook owner buys a bank named Meta for N29.9bn in a bid to keep name exclusive

Technology

4 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg is a rush to get the new name of company, Meta to become exclusively his so he acquires entities around the world that might clash with Meta.

9jaBet players, SMEs, others targeted in Buhari’s new Finance Bill

Industry

4 years ago

Nigeria's new finance bill is targeted at those who stake bets and the companies under which those bets are carried out. It will mandate them to pay taxes.

Nigeria in the mix as WHO says increased healthcare costs pushes 500 million people into extreme poverty

Economy

4 years ago

Nigeria secured another N1.6trillion loan for vaccines while WHO says 500 million people have been pushed into extreme poverty because of healthcare costs.

CBN: eNaira is cruising, over N188m transactions completed by Nigeria's digital Currency

Technology

4 years ago

Nigeria's digital currency is breaking leaps and bounds and has completed 188 million transactions. 83,000 merchants are using the eNaira in 166 countries.

Jimoh Ibrahim’s N69bn debt might land him on top of biggest debtors' list in Nigeria in January

Economy

4 years ago

Businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim may feature on the list of highest debtor's to AMCON in January. He owes the organisation N69bn and has lost a court case last week.

Odinkalu: Nigeria's public debt profile has tripled in 7 years as china may be angling to own the country

Economy

4 years ago

Nigeria is increasingly becoming an indebted country. Rights activist, Chidi Odinkalu says Nigeria's debt profile has increased sevenfold since Buhari came.

FBNH: Otedola increases stake to 7.57% as fight with Kale for ownership intensifies

Capital Market

4 years ago

The battle continues to rage between two billionaires, Femi Otedola and Tunde Kale over the control of First Bank of Nigeria. Bank tried to sell 1.1bn shares.

25 years after, popular web ranking platform, Alexa, to shut down in 2022

Technology

4 years ago

Alexa, the web ranking site is retiring in 2022 after 25 years of providing metrics to over two billion websites globally. The announcement came as a shock.

FG gives Pantami, NCC N1.8bn to monitor and block SIM cards used for dubious calls and frauds

Technology

4 years ago

The fight against fraud got a boost when FEC, presided by Buhari approved N1.8bn for Pantami's ministry of comms to block SIM cards used for fraudulent calls.

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