Ezdehar’s Second Fund Blasts Past Goals For First Close
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm known to have made bets on Andela and Twiga, is raising $150 million…
Month: February 2022
Money Manager Takes Control Of Impact Investor ResponsAbility
M&G is acquiring a majority stake in impact investing firm responsAbility Investments, M&G said Thursday in a news release. Zurich-based…
Metier And Catalyst Combine To Boost Pan-African Reach
South Africa’s Metier Private Equity plans to merge with Catalyst Principal Partners, a Kenya-based manager. Both firms said on Wednesday,…
Apple To Unveil Low Cost 5G IPhone March
Apple Inc is targeting a date on or near March 8 to unveil a low-cost 5G iPhone and an updated…
Nigeria: 200 Unemployed Graduates Received Training In Modern Agriculture From FECA
The Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Ondo State, has trained 200 unemployed graduates and youths in modern techniques of agriculture…
Nigeria External Reserves Slides To Four Months Low At $39.98bn
The external reserves have fallen below the $40bn mark to the lowest point in over three months, figures from the…
Aviation unions vow to ground flights February 8 over minimum wage, others
Nigeria’s four major aviation unions on Wednesday vowed to ground activities in the sector from Tuesday, February 8, 2022 The…
FG Pays Fuel Transporters N22.7bn Bridging Claims
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority have said the FG has paid bridging claims amounting to N22.7bn to…
Coca-Cola HBC unveils sustainability challenge for startups
The Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company has unveiled its Global Sustainability Challenge as part of efforts to advance a circular economy…
Reps panel accuses developers of duping subscribers, flouting regulations
An ad hoc committee set up by the House of Representatives to investigate estate developers in the Federal Capital Territory…
NIN-SIM linkage: Security agencies get Buhari’s nod to access subscribers’ details
President Buhari approved some security agencies to access the database of the National Identity Management Commission in the course of…
Saudi Arabia deepens 5G infrastructure for pilgrims
Saudi Arabia sets to improve communication services for the yearly pilgrimage and promise the best tech experience as the country…
Poor welfare’: Nigeria Aviation unions to embark on strike Feb 8
Aviation workers have notified airlines of their withdrawal of air travel services from February 8 in protest against poor welfare…
ICRC: FG to earn N50bn from Onitsha River Port concession
The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) says the federal government will generate over N50 billion from the 30-year concession of…
Akinwumi Adesina: Technology has improved food security, transparency in use of public funds
The African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina says the emergence of technology has brought transparency in the use of public…
Mark Zuckerberg Lost $29 Billion After Facebook Users Reduce For The First Time
Mark Zuckerberg lost $29 billion in net worth on Thursday as Meta Platforms Inc’s stock marked a record one-day plunge,…
Meta Loses Over $200 Billion In Value
Facebook sees first-ever drop in daily active users as owner Meta takes $200bn share hit Facebook’s parent firm Meta on…
Nigeria: House Of Rep Ad-Hoc Committee Is Set To Transfer Assets Of Defunct NNPC
Kingsley Chima, chairman, house of representatives ad-hoc committee, says the committee is working to finalise the transfer of assets of…
Qualcomm CEO Says Metaverse Is Beyond Social Media
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that the chipmaker views the so-called metaverse as much more…
European Market Experience Little Change After Opening Bell
Europe markets opened flat on Friday as investors digested key updates from both the Bank of England and the European…
OPEC To Raise Oil Production 400,000 Barrels Per Day
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its Russia-led partners decided on Wednesday to raise oil production by 400,000…
Naira falls at P2P market as FX liquidity improves by 59.4% at I&E window
The exchange rate between the naira and the US dollar closed at N416.07/$1 at the official Investors and Exporters (I&E)…
Full List Of CBN 100 For 100 Policy Beneficiary
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released the list of 28 companies that took home N23.2 billion from the…
Indian Billionaire Gautam Adani Becomes Asia’s Richest Person
Indian businessman Gautam Adani has become the richest Asian, worth $90.1 billion, according to Forbes’ Real Time Billionaire calculations on…
Tony Elumelu- A Well-Regulated Capital Market’ll Generate Wealth For Africa
The Chairman of United Bank for Africa Plc, Mr Tony Elumelu, has said a well-regulated capital market will help to…
Nigeria: Marketsquare Replaces Shoprite At Maryland Mall
Purplemaryland has said Marketsquare, a grocery retailer, will open its outlet at the mall following the exit of Shoprite. According…
Stakeholders Laud NLNG’s Increased Cooking Gas Supply
Nigeria LP Gas Association has commended Nigeria LNG Limited for the decision to supply 100% of its LPG production to…
FEC approves $328.87m railway consultancy services, N115.4bn Katsina road dualisation
The Federal Executive Council presided over by President Buhari approved N115.4bn for the dualization of the proposed Kano-Kazaure-Kongolam highway in…
Osinbajo launches integrated energy planning tool today
The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo launches the Integrated Energy Planning Tool in collaboration with Sustainable Energy for All. A statement…