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Herconomy Update
This evening by 8pm, is the time to Prepare Your Business 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.
Join us this Thursday and tap into the abundance of Anurika’s expertise that she will be sharing with us on the Lightbox platform.
Are you ready to position your business properly for a successful 2022 or would you rather just continue on as usual?
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.
Are you?
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Local Stories
Stations run out of petrol, scarcity paralyses states
Many filling stations in Nigeria are still not dispensing Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, a development that worsened the nationwide PMS scarcity and paralysed activities across the country on Wednesday. Read more…
Kyari may spend more days in detention as NDLEA approaches court
Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and four others may spend more time in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency as the NDLEA has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja informing the court of its intention to detain the suspects beyond the stipulated 48 hours. Read more…
ASUU fumes as FG declares strike illegal
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday traded blame over the four-week strike which the union began on Monday. Read more…
Oni to contest Ekiti governorship under SDP, SWAGA denies working with him
A former Ekiti State governor, Chief Segun Oni, said on Tuesday that he would contest the June 18 governorship election on the platform of the Social Democratic Party following continued calls by his supporters for him to stand as a third force. Read more…
FG approves N1.17tn for railway maintenance, NECO printing contracts
The Federal Government has approved N1,173,630,820,594.89 for the procurement of maintenance materials for the Ibadan-Kano standard gauge and the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri narrow gauge rail lines. Read more…
International Stories
Police chief reveals how 6-year-old girl was found alive under staircase two years after she was reported missing
A child who was reported missing in 2019 when she was 4 years old was found hidden under a wooden staircase with her noncustodial mother, in a home officials had visited several times while investigating her disappearance, authorities said. Read more…
Video showing police breaking up a fight between a Black teen and a White teen in a New Jersey mall prompts outrage
A video showing police officers breaking up a fight between a Black teenager and a White teenager at a New Jersey mall has prompted outrage over the police response. Read more…
Tech Updates
Earnipay raises $4M to help employees in Nigeria get faster access to their salaries
Earnipay, a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. Participating inves... Read more…
Business Matters
Bank loans to private sector rise by N5.1tn, hit N36.7tn – CBN report
Between January and December 2021, the Nigerian banking sector’s credit to the private sector rose by N5.1tn or 16.67 per cent, according to data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Read more…
Ikoyi building collapse: Lagos to demolish remaining skyscrapers, prosecute culpable officials
The Lagos State Government has accepted 26 recommendations of the Toyin Ayinde-led panel that investigated the collapse of a 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of the state. Read more…
How we rejected five cargoes of adulterated petrol – NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, on Wednesday, disclosed how five cargoes containing ethanol-laden Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) were rejected after discovering that the first was substandard. Read more…
No sugar scarcity, production not reduced, says FG
The Federal Government on Wednesday refuted claims of imminent sugar scarcity in Nigeria and stressed that there was also no reduction in the production of the commodity. Read more…
Metro
Will Smith and David Oyelowo to produce an adaptation of ‘Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun’ for Netflix
The novel by British-Nigerian author journalist Tọlá Okogwu will be published in June. Read more…
Tonto Dikeh gifts son plot of land for 6th birthday
Andre is Tonto and Churchill Olakunle's only child together. Read more…
Quote of the Day
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
—Kofi Annan