TVC and InfoWARE Limited Partner to Enhance Business
Programs
As part of its commitment to inspire growth and development
in the Africa business market with innovative programming and content, Television
Continental has announced its partnership with InfoWARE Limited, a Business Software
and Technology Company.
With this partnership, TVC will be the first to broadcast live market data with an
extensive coverage of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), National Association of
Securities Dealers (NASD), Alternative Securities Market (ASeM) and other African
Markets.
As part of the partnership, TVC will now use InfoWARE Market Data Terminal (IMDT) to
broadcast live market data on TVC News and TVC News Nigeria and will feature real
time market data for commodities such as Gold, Crude oil etc, up to five years price
analysis, in depth Naira evaluation against International and other African currencies,
visually appealing graphs and charts fit for TV presentation, comparison among different
stock performances, in-built instant messaging/chat tool for seamless communication
with colleagues and other professionals.
Speaking at the press briefing to announce the partnership, TVC’s Interim CEO,
Lindsey Oliver, said TVC is broadening its reach and re-enforcing its commitment to
give the best in terms of business reports on stock market, country report on finance
and investment across the Nigerian and the African business market.
According to her, ’we are delighted to announce this latest development that will boost
and broaden the reach of our business news programmes. This partnership with
InfoWARE Limited will afford our viewers the best in terms of business analysis and
reports across all markets within Nigeria and Africa.”
CEO, InfoWARE Limited Uwa Agbonile said this partnership, is geared to strengthen
and further promote transparency, price discovery and integrity of Nigeria’s Capital
Market as keenly watched by investors around the globe.
One of two TVC business programmes that would launch this service is Business Zone
which has a continental focus on country reports, stock markets, finance and
investment. The programme airs daily from Monday-Friday at 3.30pm on TVC News
Africa. It links viewers with analysts to explain key issues in the business market where
entrepreneurs talk about their achievements and give updates on current market
developments.
The second programme to launch the service is Business Nigeria. An economic
programme that gives insightful and detailed analysis on the Nigerian economy. The
programme keeps daily track of the dynamic business landscape in Nigeria across the
stock exchange market, forex trading, banking, aviation, transportation, agricultural
sector and others. Business Nigeria airs at 2:30pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
on TVC News Nigeria, and it engages analysts in a round table interactive session
where detailed analysis are given of the Nigerian market movement in stocks, shares,
bonds and investments.
Notes to Editor
About TVC News
TVC News is a 24-hour pan-African News Channel offering a fresh perspective on
African and world events. Broadcasting from Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, and
with offices and correspondents across Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, TVC News
brings its viewers the latest news 24 hours a day, telling the news as it is, with reporting
that is as fearless as it is informative.
Deploying state-of- the-art equipment and using a network of bureau across the
continent, TVC's dynamic news team keeps viewers up-to- date with fast, accurate, and
relevant Information, and all with an African twist. TVC News is the continent's first truly
pan-African news channel, looking at the world through African eyes.
The 24-hour news channel meets the needs of its audience with objective, accurate and
relevant news. Apart from challenging stereotypes and correcting factual inaccuracies
about Africa, the pan-African news channel also provides excellent news coverage
across Africa and the world, background reports, features, analyses, and coverage of
under- reported regions from an African perspective.
TVC News is also a platform to promote goods, services and opportunities available in
Africa at the global scene, providing accurate and easy access to information about
Africa and the opportunities available in Africa.
About InfoWARE Limited
InfoWARE is PAN Africa’s #1 ERP solution provider and has catapulted itself to be the
premier ERP solution provider as a 1-stop- shop software solution for investment banks
in Nigeria, West Africa and the PAN African region. InfoWARE provides the full
spectrum of solutions including Financials (including IFRS compliance), Stock
brokerage, Wealth Mgmt., Trusteeship, Issuing House processing, Payroll & HRM,
CRM, Commercial and Consumer lending and Lease mgmt., Enterprise Risk mgmt.,
Executive Dashboards, Proprietary Trading and Market making mgmt. as well as
Inventory mgmt. & Manufacturing. And the solutions are backed up with unqualified
service and support. InfoWARE Enterprise Risk Management software has processed
and protected transactions of over 1 Trillion Naira. InfoWARE is a highly innovative
company; it was first to achieve certification on the new NSE trading platform and it has
released mobile apps across all major platforms for real time market data, and a Level II
Market data terminal (InfoWARE Market Data Terminal) to compete with Bloomberg and
drive more market visibility across the entire Pan African region.
For media contact: Mabel Aladenusi
Manager, Public Relations & Communications
Continental Broadcasting Services
maladenusi@tvcontinental.tv
081-8813- 5033
