First Lady Launches ₦1bn Edo Empowerment Programme
EDO, Nigeria – Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has inaugurated 50 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses and launched a ₦1 billion economic empowerment…
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Small Businesses
ECOWAS Startup Awards: Can $65,000 Help Create Jobs?
ABUJA, Nigeria – Sixty young entrepreneurs arrived in Abuja with ideas, pitches and ambitions; by the time they left, three had won a combined…
Katsina Unveils Solar Schools, Enterprise Projects
KATSINA, Nigeria – The Katsina State Government has approved the installation of solar-powered lighting in Tsangaya schools across all 361 wards and awarded a…
Running on Fumes: Inside the Silent Collapse of Nigeria’s Small Businesses
ABUJA, Nigeria – From barber shops to cafés and roadside kitchens, rising fuel prices, inflation and power cuts are forcing entrepreneurs into impossible choices…
Tax Reform or Public Panic? Inside Nigeria’s Controversial 2026 Tax Changes
ABUJA, Nigeria – When rumours began spreading across Nigeria that the government would soon begin “taxing bank deposits” and “deducting money directly from savings,”…
No Shop, No Problem: How Nigeria’s Digital Hustlers Are Redefining Entrepreneurship
ABUJA, Nigeria – In a modest bedroom in Ibadan, a smartphone vibrates with a new order alert. Across town, a generator hums as parcels…
SMEDAN Seeks CBN Licence, Targets One Million New Businesses
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) says it is seeking approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria…