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Mouka, Nigeria’s leading brand of mattresses, pillows, and other sleep products, has bolstered its trade relations by taking 50 business partners on an exotic trip to Morocco in May 2023. At the recent trade conference hosted by the company at the Lagos Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Mouka’s Chief Commercial Officer,...

The Federal Government has committed to providing at least 50 per cent of the seed capital for the establishment of the Nigerian Wholesale Impact Investment Fund. The Minister for State Finance and Budget Planning, Clem Agba, disclosed this at a high-level Roundtable meeting on the establishment of the WIIF in...

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has advised the new Dangote Refinery to comply with the extractive industry principles of contributing to sustainable economic growth. The institution also asked the company to “distance itself from a monopolistic business model”. Ogbonnaya Orji, the executive secretary of NEITI, said the multibillion-dollar...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has called upon the Senate to grant approval for the payment of a substantial judgment debt. According to report by POLITICS NIGERIA,  the requested amount totals $566,754,584.31, £98,526,012.00, and N226 billion owed by the Federal Government. President Buhari proposes the issuance of promissory notes as a...

  As the Season 8 of the Nigerian Idol Live Show competition gets lighted up, 10  contestants have tenaciously electrified the three judges with their outstanding performances into securing upper spots in the Live Show edition of the ongoing Bigi powered Nigerian Idol Season 8, slated to commence Sunday, May...

As part of its commitment to continually empowering the youth through various entrepreneurial initiatives, Retail giant , Access Bank has rewarded  55 members of the batch A, stream two  Corps members across the country with various cash grants. A total of N15.5million was given out to corps members with winning...

    The Federal Government of Nigeria has agreed to suspend further deductions from State Governments’ accounts to fulfil their London/Paris Club obligations for the benefit of Local Government Councils. This decision was revealed by the immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Aminu Tambuwal, during a...

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called for collaboration that will lead to innovation without gender bias. The Executive Vice-Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who made the assertion recently in Lagos at the Women and Girls Innovation Summit, organised by Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN), insisted that...

The Senate on Tuesday, confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa for re-appointment as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM). Her confirmation was a sequel to the presentation, consideration and adoption of the report of the Committee on Diaspora and NGOs by the...

The United Nations (UN) World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says the climate-related disasters that occurred in the last 50 years have killed over two million people and resulted in economic damages worth $4.3 trillion. The WMO, a specialised agency of the UN whose mandate covers weather, climate and water resources, disclosed...