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   …Govs Ayade, Ugwuanyi, Airpeace CEO, Zenith Bank GMD, Globacom others make list The best of the nation’s human resources and institutions will be on parade on Friday March 20, 2020 as Champion News Media, the publishers of Champion Newspapers rolls out the drums in celebration of the winners of its 2019 awards and recognitions.

    The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) has kick-started a $2.2 million project to provide fertilizer suppliers in Nigeria with financial support to improve supply for 200,000 smallholder farmers. The trade credit guarantee project is AFFM’s first in the West African nation and will involve 10 fertilizer suppliers, 12 hub agro-dealers and 120 retail

L-R: Mr. Anurag Shukla, Managing Director, Crown Flour Mills Limited with female staff during the commemoration of 2020 International Women’s Day at Crown Flour Mills headquarters in Lagos recently. International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8, and the theme for the 2020 edition is ‘Each For Equal.’ As a part of activities to

    The Abia State Government says a thriving entrepreneurship industry and agricultural base in the State should be the foundation for the creation of a potentially viable industrial hub, its Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu told the African Development Bank (AfDB) during his visit to the Bank. A statement by the Bank said Ikpeazu met with

  BudgIT, a leading civic transparency group, has called on five state governments to take immediate measures to improve the lives of people with disabilities in their states. Currently, BudgIT is implementing a project through the use of Tracka (a service delivery platform)  to monitor projects that concern people with disability in Anambra, Lagos, Kano,

      (L-R) Damilola Adeniyi, Corporate Affairs Manager, Olam Nigeria; Sharon Bort, Officer, Sustainability Community, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve; Mireille Wondia Yeo, Programme Associate, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Olam International; Mukul Mathur, Country Head, Olam Nigeria; Julie Greene; Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Olam International and Sarah Rawson, Social Sustainability Officer,

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has cautioned the Federal Government against regulating the social media in Nigeria as such measure is in clear contravention of Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution (As amended), which guarantees every Nigerian citizen the right to “freedom of expression, including the right to hold opinions and to receive and

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari has granted the prayers of the Honourable Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami to properly position and empower the Ministry to fulfill his Digital Economy objectives. The Ministry which supervises the ICT Sector has been renamed The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to further

The Lagos Comic Con, now known as the Fearless Lagos Comic Con has for nearly a decade been the hottest platform for celebrating and promoting the best of Africa’s creativity in the form of comics, animation, film, books and gaming with thousands of young and vibrant enthusiasts, industry players and investors gathering to exhibit, interact

The entire members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) received with shock news of the demise of veteran journalist and Editor, Sir Odafe Othihiwa, who was aged 77. Sir Othihiwa was a former News Editor of the defunct Nigerian Observer from 1977 to 1981. He also served as Group General Manager of the Daily Times