● The $30,000 fund is powered by Heirs Insurance and Heirs Life Assurance ● Open to journalists, filmmakers, content producers, visual and performing artists ● Projects must amplify entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa 30 June Lagos, Nigeria: Africa No Filter, a donor collaborative working to transform stereotypical narratives of Africa, has launched the Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund. Named after African ... Read More »
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Lagos records 71 per cent of Nigeria’s $1.5 billion FDI in Q1 2022 – LCCI
Lagos State will be on another 30-year journey in pursuit of physical development, social growth and economic prosperity. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu broke this news to business leaders and the organised private sector at an interactive meeting, on Tuesday. The Lagos State Development Plan 2052, Sanwo-Olu said, will be officially rolled out at the forthcoming 9th Economic Summit of the State ... Read More »
Unity Bank Corpreneurship Challenge: Delta, Rivers Corps Members Listed to Benefit from N10m Business Grant
Unity Bank Corpreneurship Challenge: Delta, Rivers Corps Members Listed to Benefit from N10m Business Grant LAGOS.28.06.22. Unity Bank’s flagship Entrepreneurial Development Initiative, Corpreneurship Challenge, is set to return for the 8th edition across 10 locations in Nigeria, including a debut in Delta and Rivers States. The Retail lender kick-started the Corpreneurship Challenge scheme in 2019, with a launch in Lagos ... Read More »
NIGERIA IS WINNING WAR AGAINST DRUG ABUSE, SAYS OSINBAJO
*UN International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Drug Trafficking holds at Presidential Villa *VP hails NDLEA Chairman’s dynamic leadership Nigeria is winning the war, and the days of the scourge of drug abuse and dependency in the country are numbered, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this Monday in Abuja on the occasion of the ... Read More »
Rite Foods Ltd Expands Product Portfolio, Launches Sosa Fruit Drink
In its commitment to producing quality and refreshing products that appeal to consumers’ tastes, preferences and utmost satisfaction, Rite Foods Limited, Nigeria’s leading manufacturer of carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, and sausages have expanded its product portfolio with the launch of a new range of refreshing fruit drink, Sosa Fruit Drink. Sosa Fruit Drink is available in five flavours – ... Read More »
Mouka Unveils Novel Technology in Furtherance of its Quality Mandate.
As a company which prides itself in investing in Research and Development (R&D), Mouka recently equipped its world-class laboratory with two additional machines that are said to be one of a kind in Nigeria. These machines were installed in a purpose-built facility within its headquarters in Lagos to give the mattress manufacturer a further edge above other players. The Head ... Read More »
N25.7bn fraud: Appeal Court affirms ex-bank PHB boss’ conviction, reduces jail term
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos on Thursday affirmed the conviction of former Managing Director of defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, for N25.7bn fraud but reduced his sentence of 12 years to six years. The court also affirmed the conviction of Atuche’s co-convict Ugo Anyanwu, who was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by the lower court for stealing ... Read More »
*RT $200bn: Polaris Bank sensitises non-oil exporters, urge them to key into programme*
One of the leading Commercial Bank in Nigeria, Polaris Bank in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has urged exporters in the non-oil sector to embrace RT USD 200billion programme in a bid to boost the nation’s economy. The financial institution made the appeal recently in Calabar during a one day Sensitisation programme for non-oil exporters on the ... Read More »
Safe driving: FRSC commissions Dangote truck driving school …Dangote also trains block makers in Kano, Katsina to prevent building collapse
Leading Cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc, on Wednesday launched the Dangote Articulated Truck Driving School in a move aimed at inculcating safe driving culture in its drivers so as to stem the tide of road crashes. The opening of the school in partnership with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Company management reasoned, would also make the drivers become ... Read More »
Rite Foods Celebrates Father’s Day With Its Unique Family Brands
As a consumer-centric company, Rite Foods Limited, the market leader in Nigeria’s food and beverage sector, marks this year’s Father’s Day to commemorate the role of fathers in their families concerning parenting, as pillars of consolidating the family as an institution, and in their numerous contributions to societal development. Marked on19th of June, the day is special for honouring fatherhood ... Read More »