RIGHT now, the 80th United Nations General Assembly, UNGA is holding in New York, the United States. This year, unlike on previous occasions, our president is not attending. Instead, Vice President Kashim Shettima is standing in for the president and has already delivered the Nigerian national address to the UN body. The key takeaways from the speech […]

SheVentures, the women-banking initiative of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), has expanded its pool of interest-free loans for women-owned and women-led Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (WSMEs) to N1 billion, up from N200 million. Through SheVentures, women entrepreneurs in diverse sectors can access interest-free loans of up to N10 million for three months with a one-month moratorium. […]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the European Union, has launched an initiative to enroll 250,000 poor and vulnerable residents of Sokoto State into the state’s social register this year under the EU-SUSI (Supporting Sustainable Social Protection System in Nigeria) project.

The nation dodged the proverbial bullet recently following the quick and amicable resolution of the battle of wits between Dangote Refinery and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG, over the former’s alleged anti-union activities. The refinery planned to deploy 4,000 to 10,000 Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, trucks for nationwide fuel distribution […]

By Jimoh Babatunde As the world marks World Tourism Day 2025 under the theme “Tourism and Sustainable Transformation”, the Group General Manager of Continental Hotels Group, Karl Hala, has called for a bold transformation of Nigeria’s hospitality sector. Hala noted that the industry has demonstrated resilience and innovation, contributing more than ₦7 trillion to Nigeria’s […]