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- 5 May 2021
Coca-Cola Supports Financial Inclusion of Over 20,000 Women and Youth in Nigeria through Special Intervention Program
Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited in partnership with Whitefield Foundation has empowered over 20,000 individuals with business skills across the 36 states of Nigeria through the Special Intervention Program…
- 18 Aug 2021
Indigenous Telcos Seek 5 Years Tax Holiday, Special Intervention Funds
Indigenous telecommunications companies in Nigeria have appealed to the Federal Government to give them tax holidays of up to five years and a special intervention funds. This, they said, would allow…
- 15 Jan 2024
FG Launches Intervention Program for Large, Medium Scale Enterprises
The Federal Government is working on an intervention program targeted towards large and medium-scale enterprises, tagged the “Business Champion Program”. This was announced by Dr Jumoke Oduwole, the…
- 31 Jul 2017
Onu, S&T Minister Charges Nigerians to Patronize on Made in Nigeria Goods
Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, minister of Science and Technology, has called on all Nigerians to patronize made in Nigeria products that have met the required certification as this will enable them embark…
- 6 Dec 2021
Coca-Cola Bags Two Awards at the 2021 SERAS Awards
Coca-Cola along with its bottling partner Nigerian Bottling Company, has won two awards at the 15th edition of the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility Awards, popularly known as the SERAS…
- 16 May 2017
10,000 Nigerians to Benefit from MSU, MasterCard Foundation ‘Agri Youth Lab’
Nigeria is likely to have the lion’s share in a five-year, $13 million collaboration between Michigan State University and the MasterCard Foundation launched on Monday to help 15,000 young people…
- 27 Sept 2019
CBN Claims Anchor Borrowers Programme Created 132,260 Jobs
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said 255 private and 14 state government anchors have so far participated in Anchor Borrowers’ Programme as at June, this year. This is in addition to…
- 25 May 2021
CBN Debits Banks N120.2Bn over CRR Failures
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has debited commercial and merchant banks in the country a total of N120.2 billion for failing to live up to the cash reserve requirement (CRR) obligations, according to…
- 22 Mar 2024
National Economic Council Endorses $617m Digital Enterprises Programme
National Economic Council (NEC) has endorsed the implementation of the $617.7 million Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (i-DICE) programme in the 36 states of the federation and the…
- 28 Jun 2023
Sterling Bank, SMEDAN Partner to Create Nigeria's Largest SME Database
One of Africa's fastest-growing companies, Sterling Bank, has recently signed an agreement with the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) to establish a comprehensive…
- 18 Sept 2022
WEETS 2022: NITDA Explains Role of Women in Driving Digital Economy
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has explained that women's participation is crucial in the digital economy pursuit being championed by the Federal Ministry of…
- 20 Dec 2021
Pantami Okays Creation of Office for Nigerian Digital Innovation
Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has given the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) the go ahead to create a new subsidiary named…
- 5 Apr 2024
Ekeh, Nigerian Tech Visionary Donates Modern Tech Centres to IMSU, St. Augustine University
Leo Stan Ekeh, who is on Forbes Best of Africa leading Tech Icon and chairman of Zinox Group, Africa's largest ICT conglomerate, has donated a state-of-the-art training centre to Imo State University…
- 20 Oct 2022
Why More Corporate Bodies Should Invest in Infrastructure - Tobechukwu Okigbo
Following the Federal Government's approval of MTN's N202.8 billion reconstruction of the Onitsha-Enugu expressway through its Road Infrastructure Tax Credit (RITC) scheme, the Chief Corporate…
- 12 Sept 2021
Mastercard Foundation, Agrolog Partner to Empower 60,000 Ginger Farmers in Nigeria
Agrolog General Services Limited in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation will support 60,000 smallholder farmers in vulnerable indigenous ginger farming communities in Kaduna State. The…
- 4 Feb 2022
NITDA Engages Lagos Tech Innovators for Enhanced Productivity
In furtherance to strengthening the country’s digital economy by increasing contributions of ICT to GDP, as well as promoting indigenous content through patronizing indigenous IT products and…
- 19 Dec 2022
Blinken, Tony Elumelu, Rally U.S. and African entrepreneurs, investors & policymakers @U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
About 300 entrepreneurs, investors, and celebrities took part in the opening reception for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, the investment-focused “Innovators Gathering”, honoring the influx of two-way…
- 15 Dec 2022
Blinken, Tony Elumelu, Convene U.S. & African Entrepreneurs, Others for U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
About 300 entrepreneurs, investors, and celebrities took part in the opening reception for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, the investment-focused “Innovators Gathering”, honoring the influx of two-way…
- 16 Dec 2024
UBA Supports Lagos State Security with N500m Donation
United Bank for Africa(UBA) through UBA Foundation, its corporate social responsibility arm, has donated the sum of N500 million to the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), as part of its…
- 12 May 2017
Grants: ACT Foundation Opens 2017 Application to NGOs, Others
In line with its commitment to provide innovative solutions to social, economic and environmental challenges in Nigeria, grant making organization, Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation is calling…
- 22 Aug 2019
Softcom Harps on the Use of Technology to Meet SDGs 2030
Softcom, an indigenous technology company and technical partners to the Federal Government of Nigeria on the N-Power project, hosted a conference with the theme: Combating Poverty: Role of Technology…
- 16 Feb 2022
DG NITDA Extols Traditional Institutions Role in Harnessing ICT Benefits in Nigeria
Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, director-general, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has said Traditional Institutions have a vital role to play in harnessing the vast opportunities in…
- 24 Apr 2014
DHL Nigeria Becomes Certified Intl Specialist Centre of Excellence
Nigerian office of DHL Express, the world leader in international express delivery and the world’s most international company, has received a further endorsement of its ‘Employer of Choice’…
- 1 Jun 2025
Nigeria Relaunches National Talent Export Programme to Unlock $1 Trillion Global Outsourcing Market
The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has announced the relaunch of the National Talent Export Programme (NATEP), a bold initiative led by the Honourable Minister, Dr. Jumoke…
- 5 Mar 2021
International Women’s Day: How Coca-Cola is Championing Women Empowerment
The economic empowerment of women remains a burning issue in countries across the world. On International Women’s Day, a day set aside to celebrate the social, cultural, political and economic…
- 15 Jul 2021
ARC-P Pledges to Protect Over 9m Unprotected Nigerian Children
The At-Risk Children Project (ARC-P) will offer protection to the over nine million unprotected children in the country who deal daily with violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and exclusion, the…
- 8 Sept 2025
Zinox, KongaCares Launch 1m Laptop Drive to Transform Nigerian Schools
GITEX Nigeria 2025 was not only a great success but also a landmark event that showcased Nigeria’s rising stature in the global technology space, attracting thousands of technology professionals and…
- 3 Nov 2017
Oyo State, Signal Alliance to Establish Microsoft Imagine Academy for Digital Literacy Transformation
The Oyo State government has announced her collaboration with Signal Alliance and Microsoft to make the State attain global technological relevance and put Nigeria on the digital technological map.…
- 28 Jun 2015
AfDB Board Approves the Bank’s Knowledge Management Strategy for 2015-2020
Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in its meeting on June 24, 2015 in Abidjan, approved the institution’s Knowledge Management Strategy (KMS) for 2015-2020. The vision of this…
- 16 Apr 2019
FG Fetes Procter & Gamble Nigeria, Others, at 2nd PEBEC Awards
The 2 nd Annual Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) Awards held on the 3 rd of April 2019 recognized MDAs and members of the public and private sector that contributed to…