Editorial Staff 
Apart from business ideas, funds are very important at the stage of implementation or for expansion, that’s when credit facility for small business owners is very important. As such, Stanbic IBTC SME loan is one of the credit facilities entrepreneurs in Nigeria can obtain to achieve their business goals. In one of our guides, we … Read more
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has laid down rules on the management of the details of company or business data. As a company, you’re expected to file a notification of any change whatsoever with the commission. The Company and Allied Matters (CAMA 2020) specifically spells out what a company should do at the end of … Read more
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises or MSMEs constitute approximately 96% of businesses in Nigeria. There are even more SMEs in Nigeria than the United States which has 53percent and 60percent in Europe, studies say, but access the credit facility has been one of their major challenges. That’s why the microeconomic and financial analysts have severally … Read more
When you check the price of a property in areas like Lekki, Ikoyi, Ikeja, and other top choices in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, you are likely to see NGN50million or more for a plot of land measuring 600 square meters It becomes financially challenging for a prospective buyer to own property in the aforementioned top … Read more
One of the states in the southwest which hasn’t fully explored the mineral resources it is blessed with is Osun, a state which was created on August 27, 1991, by the military administration of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. Despite the fact that Osun is full of honey, it remained a “Civil Service” state while the state … Read more
Since the oil was first discovered in 1956 in Oloibiri, the present-day Bayelsa State, Nigeria has made several billions of US dollars from the sales of oil. Since then Nigeria has become Africa’s number one producer of oil and number six on the global ranking. In 2018, Nigeria made $32.63 billion in revenue from the sales … Read more
There are hundreds of investment opportunities in Nigeria, but one of the challenges is insecurity, from the North to South, West to the East, even the Federal Capital Territory, the seat of power, the government can’t adequately assure maximum security. As such, as a foreign investor or a potential investor, you should “shine your eyes” … Read more
The six geopolitical zones in Nigeria are North East, North West, North Central (also known as Middle Belt), South East (comprises of majorly Igbo-speaking people of the defunct Biafra Republic ), South-South (also known as Niger Delta region), and the South West (majorly the Yoruba-speaking people). Creation of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones The idea for the creation of Nigeria’s … Read more
The military regime of Gen Olusegun Obasanjo in 1976 approved the establishment of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) through Decree No. 26 of 1976 which has now become an Act. Obasanjo’s regime at the time said Nigeria needed to build a viable economy that can be sustained through agricultural products aside from crude oil, … Read more
Nigeria’s economy is wallowing in internal and external debts worth trillions of Naira, while the executive and the lawmaking arms are plundering the revenue, yet they are desperately in searching of means of paying off the debts and means of funding country’s 2022 budget. But a member of the House of Representatives at the National … Read more
With free entry into 192 countries, Japanese and Singaporean passports are the best passports in the world while Germany and South Korea take the second spot out of 116 in the world. The latest outcome of research by a London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners (H&P) has revealed. Most of the … Read more
From being a private equity lawyer to a philanthropist without borders, Efe Ukala isn’t a woman you would find dolling out cash to anyone that comes her way. Rather, she travels across Africa with her team at ImpactHER to discover and identify women who have sound business ideas, support them morally, emotionally, technically, psychologically, and … Read more
Changing your Place of Primary Assignment (PPA) in the ongoing deployment process of the N-Power programme is possible if you carefully follow the process. CAUTION: Applying for redeployment is tricky, we urge you to first find out if there are vacancies in the new Place of Primary Assignment (PPA) you wish to move to. If … Read more
Somalia, Eritrea, Libya, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic are the top five worst African countries to do business, according to the World Bank. And those who have been following political development in these countries may not be surprised considering the fact that the crisis is peculiar to at least four of them. In … Read more
With 1,380,614,641 people, making it the second most populated continent, Africa remains an investment destination for foreign investors who want to tap into the market strength of the continent. While the collective headcounts of Africa are significant, each of the countries has several measures in place in order to encourage Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Interestingly, investors … Read more