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Is Your Business Ready for a Successful Year?

Anurika Azubuike is a leading expert in Marketplace Alchemy, an experienced business leader with two decades’ worth of expertise in creating systems that attract and ‘keep’ paying clients, helping businesses sell more of their products.

Anurika is also a Marketing Communications professional providing strategic visibility to companies and institutions, which she has done for the likes of Google, P&G, CNN, Coca Cola, and Unilever.

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An alumnus of Quadrant MSL, and a serving member of the IFC Africa Regional Team, Anurika is going to give us some gbas gbos, and we are ready for it.

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Local Stories

At last, ASUU declares nationwide strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a “comprehensive and total” strike. Read more…

NDLEA declares DCP Abba Kyari wanted over drug links

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday declared suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, wanted over alleged links with an international drug cartel. Read more…

ASUU declares Pantami’s professorship illegal, to sanction FUTO VC, others

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has faulted the promotion of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, as a professor. Read more…

Private sector raises fresh N100bn to support FG amid rising insecurity

The Coalition Against COVID-19 has disclosed plans to provide N100bn to the Federal Government to assist security agencies tackle the current spate of insecurity in the country. Read more…

Reps to invite ministers, NNPC, others in refineries, fuel consumption probe

The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on the State of Refineries in Nigeria is billed to invite top Federal Government officials, regulators, marketers, workers’ unions, oil companies, and other stakeholders in the petroleum sector in its investigation of the inability of the country to refine its crude oil. Read more…

Death toll hits five in Yaba building collapse

Residents of Akanbi Crescent, in the Yaba area of Lagos, where a three-storey building collapsed on Saturday, have faulted the rescue team for coming five hours after the incident happened. Read more…

Gulf of Guinea Piracy: Crew kidnappings reduced from 150 in 2020 to 57 in 2021- NIMASA

NIMASA says that Nigeria made progress in combating piracy in 2021, as the Gulf of Guinea witnessed a decrease in reported cases of attacks. Read more…

FG accuses Canada, Twitter of double standards over truck drivers’ protest

The FG has lashed out at the Canadian government and Twitter, over their handling of truckers’ in the country. Read more…

Another building collapse in Lagos, 3 dead bodies recovered, owner of building arrested

3 dead bodies were recovered, 2 others rescued alive and some workers still reportedly trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building in Yaba. Read more…

International Stories

UK PM, Boris Johnson, to hold fresh talks on Ukraine

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a fresh diplomatic push in the coming week as part of efforts to defuse the Ukraine crisis, his office said Sunday. Read more…

DMO faults IMF, says infrastructure improvements achieved through borrowing

Says government taking strong measures to grow revenues. Read more…

Tech Updates

YC-backed Remedial Health raises $1 million pre-seed to digitize pharmacies in Nigeria

Remedial Health has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding to digitize pharmacies, and stem the supply of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products, starting with Nigeria before expanding to the... Read more…

Business Matters

IMF says eNaira and other CBDCs are better than Bitcoin, altcoins

The IMF suggests central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) like eNaira are a better bet than cryptocurrencies including Bitcoins and other altcoins. Read more…

Fuel sells for N400/litre in Abuja, others, scarcity persists in Lagos

Residents of Abuja and neighbouring states of Niger and Nasarawa are still facing tough times sourcing for Premium Motor Spirit, Read more…

Oil prices rally by over 1%, hits highest level since 2014

Oil prices hit their highest level in more than seven years in the Asian session today. Read more…

Banks’ forex ban: Dollar scarcity, inflation, firms’ closure imminent, experts warn

Financial analysts and economic experts have expressed worry over the plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop the sale of foreign exchange to Deposit Money Banks by December this year. Read more…

NUPENG set for strike, insists ministry diverting N621bn road fund

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers on Sunday declared its support for the imminent industrial action by the Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of NUPENG and announced that it had started mobilising members of the union for the sudden strike. Read more…

Tax: FCT-IRS extends annual returns filing for corporate organisations to March 31

Says challenges faced by taxpayers were caused by unexpected downtime on its server. Read more…

Metro

Kodak black sustains gunshot injury at Justin bieber's super bowl party

Rapper Kodak Black was among three other individuals who were wounded in a shooting outside the premises of a Los Angeles lounge during an unofficial after-party for Justin Bieber to mark the Super Bowl on Friday night. Read more…

Williams Uchemba and wife welcome daughter

The couple got married in 2020. Read more…

Kylie Jenner announces name of her and Travis Scott’s baby boy

Wolf Webster is the latest member of the Kardashian/Jenner clan. Read more…

Quote of the Day

"Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."

Margaret Lee Runbeck