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You Could Win ₦10 Million at the NES #25 Startups Pitching Event

If you’re part of a startup team and you’d like to get some funding to scale things up, here’s your chance to make it happen. The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is organizing a pitching event for early-stage startups, which

Business Growth Tip: Use Design Thinking to Create Revenue-Generating Products

What is design thinking? Design thinking is a process of learning and understanding your target audience’s problems, and coming up with creative and innovative ways to solve them. Isn’t this what you already do when you’re creating the next product

LCCI Stakeholders Forum to Discuss the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be holding a stakeholders’ forum on the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ELTS). Organizers say the session, slated to take place this August, will

AMFEST EXPO: African Women In Arts And Culture

The African Women in Arts Conference & Showcase tagged ‘Lagos 2019’ is powered by The AMFEST EXPO Project. The AMFEST Expo is a Pan African Capacity Building, Networking & Showcase Conference for Women Business Owners in the creative sector. An

RETAIL SOURCING FAIR WEST AFRICA

The Retail Sourcing Fair West Africa in Lagos Nigeria, is your first step to establishing a presence for your brand in key markets on the continent. The RSF is a trade-only fair focusing exclusively on retail and commercial products for

BUILDMACEX 2019

Buildamacex and Interior Exhibition is an international industry-tailored event for companies in the business of building, construction, machinery and interior designs. This year’s edition will holds from 29-31 October 2019 at the prestigious Convention Center, Eko Hotels and Suites, VI,

Agritech Focus: All about Verdant Agritech

Verdant Agritech aims to become Nigeria’s biggest reservoir of useful agricultural data. It also wants to connect the country’s farmers, input providers, extension officers, NGOs, and financial institutions to create one large value-multiplying ecosystem. It’s a project ambitious enough to

Did You Know? Nigeria is Now Africa’s Largest Producer of Rice

Nigeria has held on to its position as Africa’s biggest consumer of rice for a long while. Most of the country’s population considers the product a staple and uses it as an essential component of several dishes. And with over

Agritech Focus: All about Kereksuk

Nigeria consumes more rice per annum than any other country in Africa. This isn’t just because it has more mouths to feed than others on the continent. The fact that it’s a staple for people in every part of the

Agritech Focus: All about Releaf

Business transactions thrive on trust. When trust is absent, the buyer-seller relationship either collapses or it never happens in the first place. Interactions along Nigeria’s agro-business value chain suffer the same trust issues that bedevil a lot of commercial relationships

Business Growth Tips: Give Out Useful Content for Free

Who doesn’t love free stuff? Giveaways are a tested-and-trusted way of getting people’s attention. You can cut through some of the planet’s toughest skins by offering them something they would really appreciate, for free. The catch with gifts is that

Agritech focus: All About Hello Tractor

The world continues to apply its very latest technologies to agriculture, to lift production efficiencies in the sector to heights good enough to cater for tomorrow’s challenges. Whether it’s digital technology or blockchain, AI or robotics, there’s always some new

What You Need to Know About USAfrica Business Expo

The U.S.’s interest and growth investments in current and emerging African economies continues to rise, but has only reached a small fraction of the untapped potential. The USAfrica Business Expo will help create access, which is fundamental to navigating and

A German Agency Wants to Develop 5,000 Leather and Garment Businesses in Aba

The German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) says it plans to boost the production and trading capacities of about 5,000 leather and garment businesses in Aba in the coming months. The organization intends the program to be part of a

Nigerians Could Be Paying a 5% Tax on Online Purchases Soon

Online shoppers in Nigeria could soon be paying more for the smartphones and handbags they purchase from ecommerce stores. The Federal Government says it is planning to slap a 5% Value Added Tax (VAT) on these transactions, as well as

Agritech Focus: All About Growsel

Of the $397 billion income generated by Nigeria in 2018, almost a quarter came from its farmlands. Over the course of the year, millions of strong-willed, tough-skinned people cultivated crops and reared livestock in wildly varying conditions, and contributed their

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