Heads of State in Africa have been urged to come up with policies that will attract private sector investment to the continent. This call was made by Chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, CON. While addressing some private sector captains, global investment leaders and key players in…
Nigerian digital publishing company, Publiseer, has been invited to the 2019 Geneva Book Fair by Hayim Delphine, the Cultural Project Officer at the Geneva Book Fair in Switzerland. The Book Fair will be holding its 33rd edition from the 1st of May, 2019, to the 5th and will attract about 90,000 visitors. Since 2015, the…
The African business terrain is quite tough. It is not for the weak, but for the persistent and dogged. This is exactly the story of Jumia which started in Nigeria in 2012. Today, Jumia is not just an eCommerce company, it is a marketplace and an ecosystem spanning 14 African countries and offering premium services…
Thousands of Nigerian graduates from universities across the country join the labour market (some prefer to say favour market) annually. Whether it is labour or favour market, the fact is the job market is changing at the speed of light and if these graduates do not catch up, a good number of them graduates will be unemployable. Technology…
Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs), are now strategic and essential for accelerating economic growth in Nigeria. SMEs constitute about 90 per cent of all the businesses in Nigeria, creating more than 80 per cent of employment in the region. The contributions of SMEs to the Nigerian economy cannot be overstated. The scale of this transformation…
Ethiopia’s controversial Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa will make a welcome return to the Middle East when he lines up in the elite field at the 2019 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on January 25. The 28-year-old had been in exile in the USA since making an anti-government gesture while crossing the finish line and clinching…
The Togolese cook accused of killing Managing Director of Credit Switch Technology, Chief Opeyemi Bademosi has narrated how he carried out the act. According to the Lagos Command of the Nigeria Police Force, the suspect, Sunday Adefonou Anani, allegedly murder the businessman at his residence for money. In a statement by its Public Relations Officer,…
Organisers of the Yoruba Movie Gist Awards have released nominees of the maiden edition of the awards ceremony. Yoruba Movie Gist Awards is the brainchild of Olakitan Adetutu Communications, a subsidiary of Gbolahan Adetayo Media Network, run by renowned former movie journalist with City People Magazine, Gbolahan Adetayo. The colourful event to reward hard work…
A formidable group in Delta State known as Inspired Youths is drumming support for ex-governor and Delta South senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan to represent the zone in 2019. The group which spoke through their leader, Joy Omodafe reiterated that their support for the former governor was not…
Group Managing Director/CEO of Keystone Bank Limited, Obeahon Ohiwerei, has said that the bank has over the last 15 months, witnessed significant transformation both structurally and in market competitiveness. In a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Monday, Mr. Ohiwerei, alluded to this on-going transformation and the strides made to date. “What was otherwise a…