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Did You Know? When Nigeria Produced Half the World’s Palm Oil Exports

There aren’t very many food ingredients as essential to local Nigerian cuisine as palm oil. The red liquid drained out of tough oil palm fruits is the fluid without which most indigenous soups, stews and snacks simply cannot exist. You

Business Growth Tip: Set Monthly Profit Targets

If you’re anything like this writer, then you’re the sort of person who likes setting targets for yourself. It can be tasking, especially when it requires you to fit innumerable facts about your life with the never stable, ever-changing world

7 Things Entrepreneurs Should Do at the Start of the New Year

Entrepreneurs are, in general, just as excited as most people are about the arrival of a new year. For a lot of them, it’s the closest things they can get to starting on a clean slate. Even if there’s unfinished

How to Beat the January “Slow Business” Trap

For a lot of businesses, January drags along like a snail. Sales slow to a trickle, and cash doesn’t come in as much as they would like. If you’re perceptive enough, you might just about sense the mood of the

Brands We Love: Rite Foods

If you’re a Nigerian sausage roll aficionado (as many commuters in the country’s towns and cities are), you’ll almost certainly have heard about, seen or consumed a Rite Food product. Their sausage rolls are among the bigger snack brands that

Business Growth Tip: Engage Customers with New Year Marketing

The skies over our heads were lit with celebratory lights in the early hours of the New Year. Businesses also partake in the fanfare of this ‘ushering into new things’, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Some host parties; others

Did You Know? Nigeria’s ₦250 Billion Fast Food Industry

A couple of decades ago, Nigerians had only a handful of fast food chains to have their outings at. Perhaps we weren’t as keen on french fries and spicy oriental dishes as we are today, but it was probably also

10 Business Lessons to Learn from 2018

This year has probably been just business as usual for you. Maybe it’s actually been brilliant (you’ve shovelled in large profits) or horrendous (you’ve made significant losses). Regardless of how the year has panned out for you, there are a

Five Things Your Business Should Do Before the Year Ends

As the year draws to a close, business owners and staff alike become more fond of their calendars. They anticipate a winding down of operations, or at least a thinning of work volumes, and the chance to relax for an

ConnectNigeria’s Top 100 SMEs: The Nut Place

The idea for a packaged nut snacks and flour supplies store began to take shape in Chigozie Bashua’s mind in 2012, while she was on a visit to the United Kingdom. She had stopped by a nut store in London

Social Media Marketing Tips: 6 Ways To Market Effectively On Instagram

Instagram has been shown to be the most engaging of all the social media platforms. A platform of such standing should be utilised in the best ways possible to create brand awareness and convert prospects to leads. What have your

Did You Know? Nigeria’s Bread Industry Is Worth Over ₦120 Billion

Your typical Nigerian community bakery isn’t in want of demand. The bosses at these establishments may moan about flour prices and energy costs, but you’d seldom find a house of bread lacking buyers for their bakes. It’s no wonder that

Growth & You: 5 Success Selling Tips Every Business Person Must Know

No matter what industry you operate in, no matter how wonderful your products and services may be and no matter how long you have been in business, getting your items in the hands of those who need them and are

Connect Nigeria Top 100 Emerging SMEs Gala Speech – Uzo Anekwe

Speech By Uzo Anekwe given at the Connect Nigeria Top 100 Emerging SMEs Gala.   Good day Ladies and gentlemen, please permit me to stand on already existing protocols. I bring greetings from My MD/ CEO Mr Emeka Okafor, who

Connect Nigeria Top 100 Emerging SMEs Gala

It was a big afternoon for entrepreneurs at the grand culmination of Connect Nigeria’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs challenge, which embodied a new beginning and a reinforced plan with partner organizations to fast-track the development of businesses that made it

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