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Nigeria Slovenia Trade: Explore New Business Opportunities

07.12.2025

The Nigeria-Slovenia Chamber of Commerce on Thursday urged the Nigerian business community to explore business opportunities in Slovenia to widen their horizons. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the chamber made the call at its 2025 Last Quarter Business Forum held in Lagos State. The forum is the chamber’s routine session aimed at informing...

EU, FG Partner to Close Nigeria’s Power Sector Skills Gap

07.12.2025

The Federal Government has warned that Nigeria’s power sector reforms risk stalling unless urgent steps are taken to close the widening skills gap across the electricity value chain, even as the European Union announced fresh support for renewable energy deployment and workforce development in the country. The union also stated that it has invested more...

Investor Confidence Lifts Nigeria’s Agro-Sector Output

07.12.2025

Nigeria’s agricultural sector grew 3.79 per cent in the third quarter of 2025 due to improving investor confidence. Stakeholders maintain that the Federal Government must ensure timely policy implementation, fair market conditions and sustained investment to sustain the momentum, ARINZE NWAFOR writes The agricultural sector contributed N30.5tn, in nominal terms, to the Gross Domestic Product...

Majeurs Holdings secures SON certification for furniture

06.12.2025

Furniture manufacturer Majeurs Holdings Limited has secured the Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme Certification from the Standards Organisation of Nigeria. According to the company, the certification was presented to the company by the SON at a ceremony held at the Lagos Office of the organisation. SON indicated that MANCAP is to ensure that locally manufactured products...

Google.org Funds ATF to Boost AI Talent in Africa

06.12.2025

Google.org has provided $1m to the African Technology Forum to scale its flagship ATF AI Challenge and deepen Africa’s artificial intelligence talent pipeline across four countries. The 37-year-old institution announced the funding in a statement, stating that it would train more than 10,000 university students and young professionals in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa...

PIND & Ford Foundation Boost Host Community Development

06.12.2025

The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta and the Ford Foundation have concluded the Bridges Project with a high-level stakeholders’ dialogue aimed at strengthening the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act’s Host Community Development Trusts in the oil-producing region. In a statement, the two organisations closed the project at a two-day forum titled ‘Four...

Innovation to Drive Nigeria’s Economic Breakthrough

06.12.2025

The Federal Government has asserted that Nigeria possesses the requisite capacity to drive economic transformation across all sectors, leveraging innovation, robust private-sector partnerships, and strategic regional integration. This declaration followed the successful conclusion of the 2025 Nigeria International Trade Fair in Lagos, which the government described as a powerful demonstration of the nation’s rising industrial strength...

Legal representation dispute stalls Nestoil appea

06.12.2025

The proceedings at the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, were halted on Thursday after a dispute arose over who was properly authorised to represent Nestoil Limited and Neconde Energy Limited in a $1bn debt appeal. The appeal, filed by First Trustees Limited and FBNQuest Merchant Bank Limited, is challenging the ruling of Justice Daniel Osiagor...

Cavalli Group inaugurates new board to drive growth

06.12.2025

Cavalli Business and Investment Limited Group has inaugurated a new board of directors as part of its strategy to deepen corporate governance, strengthen its market position and accelerate growth ahead of 2026. The Group Managing Director, Emmanuel Odemayowa, announced the company’s decision during a recent media briefing, describing the transition as a defining moment for...

LEAP Positions Africa as a Global Innovation Hub

06.12.2025

LEAP Africa has reaffirmed Africa’s growing status as a global centre of innovation as it hosted the 12th edition of its Social Innovators Programme and Awards in Lagos on Thursday. The 12th SIPA, a gathering of young innovators, policymakers, financiers, and development leaders, was held under the theme ‘Africa as THE Sector: Maximising Possibilities through...