Efforts by The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) to encourage indigenous firms to list their shares on its market has been bolstered with the listing of 889,981,552 ordinary shares of The Initiatives Plc ( TIP) at 50 kobo…
Guinness Nigeria Plc has announced a revenue increase of 6% for the first quarter of its financial year ended 30 September 2016. The company said the increase was driven in part by contributions from its new mainstream and international premium…
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) opened the 2nd TEF Entrepreneurship Forum – the largest gathering of African entrepreneurs and the highlight of the annual TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. The Forum celebrates the 2016 cohort of Elumelu Entrepreneurs – selected from over…
Lawmakers from State Assemblies in South Western part of Nigeria have called for their inclusion in the total processes and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The parliamentarians said this in a communiqué signed after a two-day conference on…
The Senate yesterday began moves to establish mother and baby units in prisons for the care of pregnant female inmates, nursing mothers and their babies. Three bills for the repeal and re-enactment of the prisons Act CAP P29 LFN 2004…
Former Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Prof Godwin Patrick Olu Obasi has been described as Africa’s gift to the world of climate science. This was made know by experts at the Inaugural Prof. Godwin Olu Patrick Obasi Memorial…
The 2016 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting (ACCER) Awards were feted in an Awards Ceremony held on the sidelines of the ongoing sixth conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 18th– 20th October,…
NPR on Friday appointed its first general manager of podcasting, yet another sign of the medium’s growing importance. It’s Neal Carruth, the supervising senior editor for NPR’s business desk. Carruth, a 17-year veteran at NPR, will oversee “Planet Money,” “Embedded,”…
Uber drivers are not self-employed and should be paid the “national living wage”, a UK employment court has ruled in a landmark case which could affect tens of thousands of workers in the gig economy. The ride-hailing app could now…
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to increase workers’ current minimum wage without further delay. He said the demand by the organized labour was in view of the economic recession, noting…
