The 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, a flagship philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), has shortlisted the top 50 finalists from stage one of the selection process. The fifty entrepreneurs will continue their journey in the competition, for a chance to become one of the ten […]
The cost of courier services are expected to rise soon as the Nigeria Postal Service has increased the cost of licences for logistics and courier companies.This is also expected to increase the cost of delivered goods. According to the new charges by NIPOST, companies which provide international courier services like DHL, UPS and FEDEX, are […]
The Federal Government has approved new regulations for courier and logistics services in the country. The new guidelines dubbed Courier and Logistics Operations 2020 was signed by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami. According to the minister, the new regulation will enhance the powers of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to […]
South African social impact advisory firm Impact Amplifier has partnered Google.org and the UK-based ISD to launch the Africa Online Safety Fund, a US$1 million initiative that seeks innovative solutions to online safety challenges. Over 500 million people have access to the internet in Africa, and while the huge increase in internet, smartphone and mobile […]
Like other types of farming, the aquatic sector or fish farming urgently requires the attention of stakeholders to save it from total collapse. The fear in the sector now is that unless something urgent is done to salvage the situation, it will be difficult for the farmers to meet the huge local demand in the […]
The round up figure disbursed to farmers under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme from inception in 2009 rose to N635.39bn as of the end of March 2020. The Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed this in its “Economic report for the first quarter of 2020 on agriculture,” which was obtained on Wednesday. The report reads, “At […]
Lagos State Government says 2,743 farmers and other agriculture value chain operators will receive inputs and productive assets support. The farmers would be supported under its 2020 Agricultural Value Chains Empowerment Programme on July 28. The Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya made this known in a statement, on Tuesday in Lagos. Olusanya said […]
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has launched its “Enterprise Development for Women-Owned Ventures in Green Energy” initiative, which will support 70 women involved in renewable and green energy production in Malawi and Nigeria. Funded by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), the 12-month programme offers two components, to be implemented in two […]
A researcher and faculty at Lagos Business School (LBS),Eugene Ohu, has won a grant of $234,000 from Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc (TWCF) to conduct a two-year virtual reality research. According to a statement released on LBS website on Monday, the research project titled “Teaching Children Empathy and Compassion through Virtual Reality Games” will explore […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has predicted that its newly introduced non-interest Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme (AADS) loans will create jobs for more than 370,000 youths across the country. The apex bank states that, under the scheme, an average financing size of N250,000 per hectare of land is to be availed every beneficiary for […]
