A billboard is seen erected across the Lagos-Ibadan expressway at Ojodu district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos July 1, 2017.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
Nigeria is hiring US technology giants such as Oracle Corp and Microsoft Corp as the government invests more to save costs and fight corruption.
An initiative led by Redwood, California-based Oracle has enabled Nigerian authorities to remove 50,000 so-called ghost workers, or fake entries, from the payroll, according to a presidency statement June 29. That followed Oracle’s decision to open an office in Abuja, the capital, in May.
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