Silicon Valley’s tech elite isn’t only interested in funding apps and hot social networks. At a formal gala at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel on Thursday, nonprofit Project HEAL raised $250,000 to fund treatment for some of the 30 million Americans suffering…
The President of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Dr. Frank Jacobs, has said that idle assets that no longer yield dividends to government can be sold to better the current economic situation in the country. Jacobs said this in an interview…
Federal Government, on Wednesday approved the take-off of eight new private universities across the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The…
Melinda Gates has made providing poor women in developing countries access to contraception a mission. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she leads with her husband, has donated more than $1 billion for family planning efforts and will spend…
Thousands of stakeholders from the private and public sectors of the Transport and Logistics industry, ranging from road, rail, sea, air to inland waterways, will meet at the Multimodal West Africa Exhibition and Conference holding from Tuesday, 24th to Thursday,…
Co-founder of Budgit, Oluseun Onigbinde has disagreed with the Federal Government on its intention to borrow $29.9 billion to finance the nation’s infrastructure development from 2016 to 2019 from the World Bank, African Development Bank, Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA),…
The Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, on Wednesday passed Second Reading at the Senate. The Bill, which seeks to split the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, into two independent bodies, was referred to the Committee on Petroleum (upstream and downstream) after…
At a resumed hearing in a N1billion alleged fraud case involving the former Zamfara State Governor, Ahmed Sani Yerima, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has presented its first witness in the trial before Justice Bello…
Consistent with its commitment to broaden and deepen the Nigerian capital market, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE or The Exchange) in partnership with the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Issuers, Vetiva Fund Managers Limited, Lotus Capital Limited and Stanbic IBTC Asset…
Residents living in Igbogbo, Awesu, Orere-Abosan, Offin, Oreta, Bayeku, Ipakodo, Adamo, Araromi and communities in Ikorodu Division of the Lagos state have cried out to the Executive Governor of Lagos State to save their communities from what they described…
