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Herconomy Updates

Our Second Lightbox Session: Positioning Your Business for Success in 2022

Let us start the year strong by positioning our businesses for growth and success in this year 2022. Obviously, a lot is happening not only in Nigeria but also around the world. Economies are shaky and politics are all over the place. How can you position your business to be able to withstand all these inconsistencies and maintain your market and revenue flow?

Stay tuned as we bring you Anurika, a leading voice in Strategy, Marketing, Communications & Enterprise Development, a leader driving growth and Strategic Visibility for Brands in Emerging Markets to share some of the solutions she has learned and secured over her years working with brands.

Anurika has two decades of hands-on experience covering strategy, marketing, communications, growth partnerships, and business management, for start-ups, medium-sized firms, Fortune 1000 companies, and multilateral institutions, across diverse industries - technology, financial services, consumer goods, manufacturing, and media.

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Local Stories

We’re set for indefinite strike, FG dribbling us – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members in universities across the country will embark on another strike soon if the Federal Government fails to implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union last year. Read more…

Subscribers groan as Galaxy Backbone battles portal breakdown

Telecommunication subscribers have continued to lament their inability to retrieve lost Subscriber Identity Module or get new ones as National Identity Management Commission’s portal downtime extends to its ninth day. Read more…

International Stories

Over 1 million Nigerians, others travelled to the UK, Canada, other nations from Nigeria in 2021

Nigerian aviation sector witnessed a trend of migration, as more people left the country than returned. Read more…

US Olympian watches birth of first child via video call

US biathlete Leif Nordgren watched his wife give birth to their first child via video call from the Beijing Games the day before his first race, after being apart from her since mid-November. Read more…

Why Uganda is investing in oil despite pressures to go green

The heat is unbearable; the haze merges the sky, lake and land; kingfishers dive and rise as if playing with the wind coming off Lake Albert, near vast oil reserves which Uganda wants to start exploiting. Read more…

US university in $250m payout for doctor's sex abuse

The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $250m (£185m) to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist. Read more…

Tech Updates

Nigerian fintech Grey gets backing from Y Combinator

Let’s say you’re a freelance engineer in Nigeria working for a U.S. company; how do you facilitate forex conversion from dollars to naira? I bet it involves using a third party or a local Bureau De... Read More…

Business Matters

Bytedance, Space X top startups’ most valuable list as global unicorn hits 1,000

Fintech is the largest category for unicorns, accounting for roughly 1 in every 5 unicorns (21%). Read more…

Telecoms union gives MTN 14-day ultimatum to address workers’ welfare

Telecommunications union under the aegis of the the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria have issued a 14-day ultimatum to MTN Nigeria Telecommunications Plc to address certain issues bordering on workers welfare or face an industrial action. Read more…

Amid CBN cryptocurrency ban, Russia set to legalize Bitcoin

The Bank of Russia has reached an agreement on how to regulate and adopt cryptocurrencies as form of currency. Read more…

Insurers pay N11bn claims on EndSARS

The Nigerian Insurers Association has said insurance companies have paid N11bn claims on losses suffered during the 2020 #EndSARS protest. Read more…

Arla, Tolaram to build dairy in Kaduna

As part of efforts aimed at boosting local milk production, Arla Foods, makers of Dano Milk, says it has signed an agreement with its joint-venture partner, Tolaram Group, to build a Danish-designed state-of-the-art commercial dairy farm in Kaduna State. Read more…

Nissan set to assemble Navara pickup in Nigeria June

Stallion NMN Limited says it is planning to begin assembling of the new Nissan Navara pickup in Nigeria in June this year. Read more…

Insurance industry rakes up N508 billion in premiums and pays N224 billion in claims in 2021- NIA

NIA in talks with LASBCA about using the NIID Verification Platform. Read more…

Metro

BBNaija's Bam Bam and Teddy A are expecting 2nd child

The couple welcomed Zendaya in 2020. Read more…

Kanye West parties with Kim Kardashian look-alike, Travis Scott and Kendall Jenner

The rapper was spotted with Kim's look-alike, Chaney Jones. Read more…

Adele sparks engagement rumours

Adele is currently dating American sports agent, Rich Paul. Read more…

Quote of the Day

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
John Lennon