Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma made first ever trip to Africa this week, visiting Kenya and Rwanda in his role as special adviser for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to promote entrepreneurship as a path to economic growth.…
VIDEO: UN deputy chief calls for greater role of women in peace, prevention and sustainable development. Credit: UN News Urgent action is needed now towards the meaningful participation of women in peace processes, as well ensuring their voices are heard in…
Sir, how do you wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and not feel uncomfortable that the man looking back at you has not deemed it necessary to begin a process to make somebody or some people accountable for…
In a telephone conversation following the meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and leaders with President Muhammadu Buhari in London Sunday, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, said the President was very cheerful and has not lost any bit…
The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Saturday issued certificates of Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) to four companies operating in Kano for meeting quality standards. The companies are Abusaiba Blocks Investment Ltd., HGB Company Ltd., Hill of wealth investment…
Charge‘d Affair of Nigeria in Mali, Yara Abdulsalam, says an indigenous motor manufacturing company, Innoson Motors, has signed an MoU with a Malian firm to export 400 locally made vehicles to Mali. Mr. Abdulsalam made the announcement on Friday in…
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken possession of Gateway Portland Cement Ltd., factories over debt of nearly three billion naira. The corporation in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday, said that the possession followed an injunction…
This article originally published at The New York Times A little over a year before Bozoma Saint John became the first chief brand officer at Uber, the transportation company’s best hope to rehabilitate its tarnished image, she hailed a ride from…
Keystone Bank Limited has denied concealing funds meant to be transferred into the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account. The Federal High Court in Lagos had on Thursday ordered seven commercial banks to temporarily remit a total of $793.2m allegedly hidden…
Development: Nigeria requires no less than a speculation of 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per annum, far over the venture level of 12.6 percent of GDP this year, to drive development. This means a venture of $55…
