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A Sweeping Look At Nigeria’s MSME Space

Nigeria’s entrepreneurial spirit is alive, and hard to miss. It’s on the raucous streets of Lagos, where caterers sell their food from makeshifts sheds, in the midst of moving commercial buses, sweaty hawkers, and high-rise buildings. It’s in the tanneries

5 Business Advisory Service Providers for SMEs in Nigeria

If you’re an entrepreneur and you struggle to keep your business’s accounts updated, or can’t understand the myriad legal requirements you’re supposed to abide by, you’ll need help to get a grip on them. That’s because you’ll be coming up

Brands We Love: Zendvance

If there are any fixed facts about Nigeria’s financial system, it’s these two: there’s a huge demand for loans and a corresponding shortage of low cost funding sources. The banks, wary of losing their money to risky ventures, are charging

Business Growth Tip: Glean Ideas from Business Success Stories

Most of us get fired up by success stories. They make us want to get out there, beat all the hurdles, and conquer the world. But if that’s all we gain from reading or hearing about circumstance-defying high achievers, we’ll

Brands We Love: Ubenwa

The robots might be taking away some of our jobs. But they’re also helping us solve some of our most challenging and life altering problems. That’s what Ubenwa, an Artificial Intelligence solutions startup, is proving with its work in healthcare.

Business Growth Tip: Make Cold Calls the Smart Way

Why not take a break from your device’s keypad, and connect with prospects over the phone? Isn’t speaking directly to them a more humane way of getting them more interested in your products and services? That’s what cold calling is

Here’s How to Access the DBN Loan Facility for Small Businesses

Officials at the Development Bank of Nigeria say the institution could be disbursing ₦100 billion to small businesses in the country this year. As such, they’re expecting more loan applications from MSMEs in need of funding to scale their operations.

Will Your Current Job Still Exist in Five Years?

That’s a bit of an alarmist headline for an article. But it’s one of the big questions being asked by the experts about a great many jobs. They think it’s an important issue. You probably should be asking it yourself.

Brands We Love: Bookcraft

When Nigerians think about publishing houses, they remember the labels on the textbooks from their school days. Those names, etched on the minds of the young and old alike, have become a part of the educated populace’s national experience. Bookcraft

Going Digital: Why you should Adapt Digital Marketing

Have you caught the digital train? Or are you still on the platform? The tide is fast changing, as is the ways businesses are being handled. Businesses are now implementing digital marketing as part of their growth plan. In the

Business Growth Tip: Two Smart Ways to Allocate Your Meager Resources

When we’re ambitious and want to accomplish a lot, we find that there’s never enough time, money, or manpower to get them done quickly and nicely enough. What we can do is to reach as many targets as we can

Did You Know? Lagos is One of the World’s Top 100 Startup Cities

Lagos is now one of the world’s top 100 startup cities. That’s according to a new report from StartupBlink, a body which maps the development of startups across the globe. The report, covering the year 2018, shows that Nigeria’s largest

Apply for the World Bank Young Professionals Program 2020

The World Bank says it will be accepting applications for the 2020 cohort of its Young Professionals Program in June 2019. The Young Professionals Program, which lasts for two years, is a World Bank initiative that gives talented young people

Brands we Love: Babban Gona

When Kola Masha founded Babban Gona, the space for privately run agriculture focused on social enterprises wasn’t a thing. And millions of farmers had to go it alone in the tough, unstable Nigerian market. Farming in Nigeria is no light-weight

Business Growth Tip: Invest In Yourself

You can get so engrossed in the process of building your business that you forget to make yourself a better businessperson. There’s always going to be an excuse for not improving ourselves. And if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll have plenty

Here’s How to Buy those Recently Listed MTN Shares

MTN listed its shares for sale at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday. This makes it possible for anyone who has a trading account with a local brokerage to buy a stake in the telecoms giant and get a

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