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On January 1, 2017, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) will begin accepting applications for the third round of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The Programme is the Foundation’s 10-year, US$100 million commitment to training, mentoring and funding 10,000 African entrepreneurs.   The application portal will be open until midnight (WAT), March 1, 2017. Entrepreneurs must complete the online application and selection is on a rolling basis, so early application is encouraged.   ... Read More »

LAGOS TO LAUNCH RENT-TO-OWN HOUSING SCHEME DECEMBER 8 …Says Scheme Targets Low Income Earners, Artisans In an effort to cushion the effects of economic recession in the country, the Lagos State Government on Thursday said it has concluded plans to start allocation of houses under the newly introduced rent-to-own policy. The State’s Commissioner for Housing, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, who disclosed ... Read More »

This week, fifteen delegations representing the United Nations and several countries, including Germany, Canada, France, Qatar and Algeria took part in the Tunisian government’s International Investment Conference dubbed “Tunisia 2020.”   In the last 5 years the Tunisian economy has struggled following a democratic uprising which ushered in weak growth and economic uncertainty. The conference sought to attract direct investment by ... Read More »

Five individuals indicted for the illegal recruitment of 971 workers into Kwara State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) are to face disciplinary action. Addressing journalists on Friday after the State Executive Council(SEC)  meeting, the State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Engr. Musa Yeketi while noted the affected officials had recruited workers in excess of the number approved by the ... Read More »

…Earmarks 63% To Capital Expenditure, 37% For Recurrent … Infrastructure, Education, Health Sectors Get Lion Share …Budget To Accommodate 4th Mainland Bridge, Lagos Airport Road Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday presented the Year 2017 Budget proposal of N813billion to the House of Assembly, assuring that the budget would be judiciously implemented to continue the massive infrastructural renewal ... Read More »

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policy received hard knocks from Bloomberg, the influential United States of America-based financial software, data and media company. Bloomberg said, yesterday, that  Buhari’s rigid leadership style is making Nigeria’s economic problems harder for his government to solve. In an editorial, titled: Nigeria’s economic policy needs visionary leadership, yesterday, Bloomberg gave more hard knocks for the All Prograssive ... Read More »

With a deep-rooted desire to ensure that the average Nigerian entrepreneur is pulled out of the abyss of frustration and poverty caused by governmental and societal neglect, AACLE International, a United Kingdom-based company founded by Nigerian professionals, is set to launch an online community of entrepreneurs providing financial and other solutions to the business needs of each member of the ... Read More »

FREEDOM FROM FEAR, CHOICES BEFORE THE NEW GENERATION – BEING THE CONVOCATION SPEEECH DELIVERED BY BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA, SAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BENIN ON THE 25TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2016     Great UNIBEN.     This is the greeting amongst students on the campus of the University, and it has endured after graduation and stayed with the alumni; ... Read More »

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the controversial Federal High Court Abuja judge, Justice Okon Abang as a cancer that is capable of destroying the entire judiciary in Nigeria if nothing is done to curb his excesses. The governor, who said Justice Abang was now seeing his position as a judge as a means of getting at anyone ... Read More »