Insurer, Leadway, sponsors Sporting Lagos FC to promote youth, sports
Onome AmugeMay 24, 2022
BY ONOME AMUGE Leadway, one of Nigeria’s foremost insurance companies, has entered a sponsorship agreement with Sporting Lagos Football Club, a debutant in the Nigerian National League (NNL), aimed at advancing the company’s commitment to strengthening youth engagement, deepening sports development, and promoting talents. According to the renowned insurance services provider, the season-long sponsorship with […]
£5.6m facelift strengthens The Africa Centre commitment to African heritage
Businessam StaffMay 24, 2022
The Africa Centre, a leading African institution celebrating contemporary African culture, heritage and thought leadership, is finally set to welcome patrons and supporters to its new location in Southwark, London on June 9, 2022, following a £5.6 million renovation. The development, which came after years of planning, consultations and a little over 12 months of […]
Nigeria projects $2bn in potential revenues from advertising in 3 years
Grace AirhuleMay 20, 2022
BY GRACE AIRHULE Nigeria is projecting $2 billion in potential revenues within three years from advertising at the end of an on-going reform it is carrying out in its creative industry and advertising sector. The projection was made by a Task Team working on the reform and echoed by Lai Mohammed, the country’s minister of […]
John Kamara, tech entrepreneur, changing the African narrative
Maduabuchi EfegadiMay 14, 2022
BY MADUABUCHI EFEGADI As Africans from all across the continent and within the diaspora are making a move to change the current African narrative, with the change causing a shift that will define the continent’s history, one such African, John Kamara, is eminently turning things positively. For sure, Kamara steps up the podium in a […]
YouTube, on Africa Month, reaffirms support for its creators, music industry
Onome AmugeMay 11, 2022
BY ONOME AMUGE YouTube, the popular online video community, has lined up a series of events to run throughout the month of May in celebration of Africa month, a period held in commemoration of the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now known as African Union (AU). The events, including the third annual […]
Adeosun becomes president of Stockbrokers’ Institute
Businessam StaffMay 9, 2022
Oluwole Adeosun, described as a core finance professional, is the new president of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS). He will also double as the chairman of the governing council of the body following his election into both roles. With his election at the institute’s hybrid annual general meeting (AGM) over the weekend, Adeosun, the […]
Afreximbank’s Awani makes list of Nigeria ‘100 Leading Women’
Maduabuchi EfegadiMay 2, 2022
BY MADUABUCHI EFEGADI Kanayo Awani, the managing director of African Export-Import Bank’s (Afreximbank) intra-African trade initiative division (IATID), has been named among the 100 outstanding women leaders in Nigeria, according to the list published in the 2022 edition of Nigeria women annual, 100 Leading Women. Awani, who holds a master of public administration degree (specialising […]
Lucky Ohworode Idike, Delta governorship dark horse to chart new course for state
Businessam StaffApril 25, 2022
A dark horse in Delta State race for governorship is promising modern, enterprising, innovative blueprint for the oil rich state, one of Nigeria’s most diverse sub-nationals with vast potentials to be self-sufficient. Oil rich Delta State is one state in the country whose politics bears a resemblance to a mini Nigeria. And that is because […]
Nigeria in FESTAC77 throwback with global cultural tourism, creative confab
Onome AmugeApril 21, 2022
BY ONOME AMUGE In what would come as an opportunity for a throwback that is reminiscent of the hosting of the second World Festival of Black Arts in 1977, Nigeria is to host the world again, this time the entire human race, through the inaugural edition of the global conference on cultural tourism and creative […]
Opara, Fidelity Bank ED, elected president of CIBN
Businessam StaffApril 11, 2022
Kenneth Opara, an executive director at Fidelity Bank Plc, is the new president and chairman of council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), following his election to the position over the weekend at the 2022 annual general meeting (AGM) held in Lagos. He will assume the position on May 21, 2022 when […]