Following the successful mega rally of the 11th edition of the Don’t Drink and Drive campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigerian Breweries and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) held another mega rally on road safety in Lagos, as part of efforts aimed at ensuring reduction in road accidents. The Lagos event, the second…
Heads of State in Africa have been urged to come up with policies that will attract private sector investment to the continent. This call was made by Chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, CON. While addressing some private sector captains, global investment leaders and key players in…
Nigerian digital publishing company, Publiseer, has been invited to the 2019 Geneva Book Fair by Hayim Delphine, the Cultural Project Officer at the Geneva Book Fair in Switzerland. The Book Fair will be holding its 33rd edition from the 1st of May, 2019, to the 5th and will attract about 90,000 visitors. Since 2015, the…
The African business terrain is quite tough. It is not for the weak, but for the persistent and dogged. This is exactly the story of Jumia which started in Nigeria in 2012. Today, Jumia is not just an eCommerce company, it is a marketplace and an ecosystem spanning 14 African countries and offering premium services…
Thousands of Nigerian graduates from universities across the country join the labour market (some prefer to say favour market) annually. Whether it is labour or favour market, the fact is the job market is changing at the speed of light and if these graduates do not catch up, a good number of them graduates will be unemployable. Technology…
Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs), are now strategic and essential for accelerating economic growth in Nigeria. SMEs constitute about 90 per cent of all the businesses in Nigeria, creating more than 80 per cent of employment in the region. The contributions of SMEs to the Nigerian economy cannot be overstated. The scale of this transformation…
Group Managing Director/CEO of Keystone Bank Limited, Obeahon Ohiwerei, has said that the bank has over the last 15 months, witnessed significant transformation both structurally and in market competitiveness. In a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Monday, Mr. Ohiwerei, alluded to this on-going transformation and the strides made to date. “What was otherwise a…
Commendations are beginning to pour in for Nigerian Breweries Plc for sponsoring the fourth edition of the Lagos International Poetry Festival (LIPFEST), which attracted Nigerian and foreign poets, writers and artists from 15 countries across the world. The commendation was showered on the foremost brewing company at the LIPFEST Wide Awake Concert where renowned poets…
Celebrated fashion expert, Burak Cakmak, who is the Dean at Parsons School of Design, will be at the GTBank Fashion Weekend 2018. Burak Cakmak has facilitated successful collaborations for over a decade with a wide range of stakeholders including suppliers, retailers, NGOs, governments, and the media in order to drive positive, ethical industry change. Cakmak…
Two fashion icons, Stavros Karelis and Anna Trevelyan have indicated their interest to be at the 2018 edition of the GTBank Fashion Weekend. Stavros Karelis is the founder and buying director of MACHINE-A, a London-based independent concept store for men and women, while Anna Trevelyan is the co-founder and fashion director of MACHINE-A. In 2009,…