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Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes: Leading a $20 Million Fund for Women Businesses

When Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes decided to found private equity investment firm, she was clear about her aim. She wanted to empower women at the lower end of the business scale to build their enterprises into thriving companies. Here’s why she

8 Steps to Succeeding as an Entrepreneur in Nigeria

Entrepreneurship is hard. But if you’re committing yourself to it, be sure that it’s worth your sweat. This is doubly important in Nigeria, where most businesses simply exist to sustain their owners’ lives. Many people don’t have the perceived ‘luxury’

Video Of The Week: How To Build A Brand That People Love

  Building a successful brand depends on a number of factors other than the quality of products and services provided. Sometimes, it has a lot to do with the emotional connection customers have with the brand. Read more about Video

Brands We Love: AACE Foods

Nigeria’s farmlands and factories aren’t producing enough to feed its population. There’s plenty of room in the agri-business industry for new entrants to play, but it’s not being filled quickly enough. So we fill this supply gap with imports. Each

Orange, French Telecoms Giant, Plans to Set Up in Nigeria

Orange, France’s largest telecoms company, could be moving into Nigeria soon. The firm’s captains intend to launch in what is Africa’s largest telecoms market in a matter of months. Its impending entry into Nigeria is part of a wider strategy

What Do You Know About Venture Capital?

The world of tech start-ups has had a shot in the arm in the past few years in Africa and at the forefront of that hubbub has been the Nigerian end of things. The success of the Lagos tech community

GBFoods is Opening a ₦20 Billion Tomato Factory in Kebbi State

GBFoods, a global food products manufacturer, has completed its tomato factory in Kebbi State. The facility, which is the second largest of its kind in Nigeria, will now be opening shortly to serve an ever-growing market for tomato paste in

8 Years of E-commerce in Africa: A Retrospective Review Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, e-commerce has in the last 8 years improved the quality of lives on the continent by helping consumers to shop and pay for millions of products online at

Blessing Abeng, How to Get an Audience at Silicon Valley

Blessing Abeng is a goal-getter– at least that’s what her life’s trajectory suggests. For years, she’s been stomping through Nigeria’s fast-evolving startup ecosystem, and helping companies in the space create a public image that makes them loved by the audiences

2019 CN’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs: O’Raybour Fashion’Frica

O’Raybour Fashion’Frica is a Nigerian business engaged in fashion designing and top-class dressmaking for women. The company also offers manually crafted embroidery and adornments which has earned it a following from high-flying clients. With or without a fixed budget, their

2019 CN’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs: Hubs.ng

Established in 2016, Hubs.ng was created to provide small businesses and owners with the chance to use online space efficiently. The four services on this platform are Amplify, which is meant for publishing; Hub Sites which provides domain names for businesses;

2019 CN’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs: Cato Foods

Cato Foods is an emerging Nigerian food production company that utilizes technology for the mass processing, packaging, and supply of edible commodities. The company aims to bolster the living standards of consumers especially those at the lower rung of society,

How to Start a Beverage Production Business in Nigeria

Beverages are consumable alternatives to water. This includes carbonated drinks, alcoholic drinks, fruit juices, and other popular (and not so popular) liquid consumables.    Available data from 2016 suggests that Nigeria recorded the fourth biggest sales of soft drinks of

How to Register with the Lagos State Safety Commission to Reopen Your Business

If you are in Lagos and you run a gym, restaurant, event center, spa, or religious center, you should read this.    As Nigeria continues to ease the lockdown implemented in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lagos State

How to Start a Cooking Gas Supply Company in Nigeria

More people are turning to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to fuel their cooking. There are a couple of reasons for this. The most obvious one is that it’s become a more preferred alternative to kerosene. The price of the latter

Sparkle: A New Digital Ecosystem To Transform The Nigerian Lives Across The Globe

Sparkle, a digital ecosystem providing financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians across the globe, launches today. Sparkle, which has been granted a banking license from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been built to help Nigerians

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