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Explainer: How digital literacy can aid small businesses

A report by Oxford Economics in 2016 says the global digital economy is valued at $11.5 trillion, or approximately 16% of the Global Economy, which is projected to account for a quarter of the global economy in the next 10 years. Similarly, the World Economic Forum predicts that over 60 per cent of global GDP […]
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A report by Oxford Economics in 2016 says the global digital economy is valued at $11.5 trillion, or approximately 16% of the Global Economy, which is projected to account for a quarter of the
global economy in the next 10 years.

Similarly, the World Economic Forum predicts that over 60 per cent of global GDP will be digitized by 2022 and that over the next decade digital platforms will be used to create close to 70 per cent of the new value.

Digital literacy is a combined ability to find, utilize, evaluate, share and create content using Information Technology (IT) and the internet and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defined it as the ability to access, use and disseminate information in the digital age.

Thus, digital literacy is about understanding information when it is presented in different formats, and figuring out how to use it in secure and productive ways. The adoption of digital space is
becoming perforated as it is being used for filling application forms, to shopping online for everyday groceries and clothes among others.

In developed countries, research has shown that both large enterprises and small businesses have successfully adopted digital literacy or skills to gain competitive advantage, transform business models and improve relationships with customers and suppliers. These skills are an essential success factor for many successful small business owners.

It has clearly become fundamental for the Nigerian government to explore the options of taking more small business owners into the digital space to help their businesses thrive.

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Don’t Use NLC’s Platform, Funds To Pursue Your 2027 Ambition – Abure Knocks Ajaero

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Comrade Julius Abure, has told the President of the nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero not to use the platform, funds and resources of the NLC to pursue his ambition of either becoming the president of the country in 2027 or governor of Imo State.

Abure stated this at Asaba, Delta State on Wednesday while reacting to the shutting down of the Labour Party’s National Headquarters by protesting members of the NLC who demanded for his immediate removal as National Chairman of the party.

He said the “picketing” of the party’s office was politically motivated, describing it as a show of rascality and abuse of office and the laws of the land.

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Why I Withdrew From Ondo Guber Race — Eyitayo Jegede

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state in 2020, Chief Eyitayo Jegede, on Thursday, said he withdrew from the 2024 governorship race to give room for unity and ensure victory for the party in the forthcoming governorship election.

Jegede who noted that disunity has not allowed any candidate from that party to win the governorship race in the state, said he chose to sacrifice his ambition for the development of the party.

This is just as a group within the party, PDP Crusader, hailed the decision of Jegede to step aside in the forthcoming governorship election in the state in order to build a strong and united party that can send the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) packing in the state.

The Coordinator of the PDP Crusader, Hon Mayokun Akinmoladun, said the group was ready to follow and support Jegede in any decision he took on the party’s primary and the November 16 governorship election.

Akinmoladun said the most important thing to the party is to come together and rescue the state, noting that the party was not being run the way it was supposed to be.

He said the party may go into extinction if care is not taken, and commended Jegede for financing the party since it lost the governorship seat some eight years ago.

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El-Rufai Visits SDP Office Amid Rumour Of Defection (Update)

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El- Rufai on Wednesday visited the Abuja National Secretariat of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

A source said El-Rufai paid a consultation visit to the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam.

The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He was nominated for a ministerial position in President Bola Tinubu’s administration but was not confirmed by the Senate.

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