Nigeria’s ice cream market worth up to N10bn with huge growth potential
Phillip Isakpa
September 3, 2018
*Whoever solves big gap in movement of ice cream to end user is going to win *Gap in the logistics area needs filling by some logistics companies Who would have thought the size of the Nigerian ice cream market was worth as much as N10 billion? And this is with a lot of untapped […]
Farmers in Suit is institutionalising agric financing
Temitayo AyetotoSeptember 3, 2018
Apart from infrastructural challenge, lack of financing is the next critical bane that continues to worry Nigeria’s rural farmers. However, Usman Lawan, a subscriber of the modern school of thought that financing can stem from redistribution of wealth from haves but unskilled or occupied to the haves-not but skilled is set to fill that vacuum. […]
‘High level of illiteracy, harsh economic conditions driving increased software piracy’
Justice OkamgbaAugust 30, 2018
The Nigerian software market has been tipped as one of the largest in Africa with huge demands coming from across the continent. However, there are a few challenges confronting the market. Justice Godfrey Okamgba spoke with Patrick Obaleke, a software interface engineer and managing director of Maris and Bakers Services Limited, a software trading company that […]
Jeff Bezos talked on leaving a steady Wall Street job to start Amazon, why his Blue Origin is his most important project
Businessam StaffAugust 28, 2018
Business Insider sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to talk about the early days of creating Amazon, what he’s learned since then, how he funds his rocket company Blue Origin, and what it’s like when the president of the United States is his biggest critic. The sit-down interview happened in Berlin, Germany, where Bezos received the Axel […]
‘Regularisation of multiple share subscription to improve market liquidity ’
Adesola AfolabiAugust 20, 2018
Mary Uduk, acting director general of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), together with the Nigerian Capital Market Committee (CMC), is driving a set of reforms in the market, aimed at improving liquidity and reduction in time to market for issuers. She spoke to a cross section of the financial press on e-annual reports, extension of […]
“Nigeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea must take leadership for Africa’s energy coalition”
Bukola OdufadeAugust 13, 2018
Guillaume Doane is the CEO and co-founder of Africa Oil & Power, a platform for African energy investment and policy. Africa Oil & Power is a strong advocate of “Africa First,” which supports African countries maximizing local beneficiation of their natural resources. Doane has advised several African governments and energy companies, and before co-founding Africa […]
Africa can’t trade together with 95% of its biggest revenue stream, oil & gas, going to Europe, China, United States
Businessam StaffAugust 6, 2018
*Monetization of its gas can really develop Nigeria Aziza Albou Traore, a media agency CEO put through a call to business a.m. from the United States. It’s the third time she’ll be doing so since the newspaper went digitally live a year ago, and in its unique Financial Times salmon (pink) print edition, just six […]
‘Businesses not adopting logistics and supply chain principles preparing to close down’
Phillip IsakpaJuly 30, 2018
Obiora Madu (PhD) is arguably Nigeria’s authority in logistics and supply chain management. His authority cuts across practice and theory as he is not only a teacher/trainer but has himself practiced what he teaches. He is the chief executive officer, Multimix Academy and director general of Africa Centre for Supply Chain. He has spent the […]
‘Banking is all about trust, integrity, trasparency’
Businessam StaffJuly 23, 2018
Chaouki Daher, head of private banking at International Bank of Qatar spoke to International Banker on wealth management, his bank’s future strategy and on being at the forefront of private banking in Qatar. Within the private-banking division, how significant a role does the wealth-management component play? Wealth management is one of the strategically important components […]
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, on his ‘crazy’ $12bn project
Businessam StaffJuly 16, 2018
On his yacht in Lagos, he talks about his ambitious oil refinery – his dream of buying Arsenal As a rule, I don’t get worked up over oil refineries. But the one gradually taking form on 2,500 hectares of swampland outside Lagos, Nigeria’s Mad Max commercial capital, is so big, so audacious and so potentially […]