The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) (www.Tony Elumelu Foundation.org), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries, has opened applications for the 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. African entrepreneurs with business ideas or existing businesses under 5 years,…
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, an economic think tank, has said the “monetary and foreign exchange policy rigidities” of the Federal Government may disrupt the economic growth of the nation in 2022. The Central Bank of Nigeria…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has noted that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany is fully ready and prepared to start pumping gas exports. Putin announced for the first time the second stretch of the 1,200+km pipeline has been filled…
The U.S. Department of Energy approved on Thursday a third exchange of two million barrels of crude oil for release to ExxonMobil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to boost fuel availability and…
Vitafoam Plc has filed its audited financial statement for the year ended September 30, 2021, revealing a 51.02% growth in revenue from N23.44 billion recorded in 2020 to N35.40 billion. The consumer goods company, reported a profit after tax of…
The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) on Friday said no fewer than 1,500 Nigerian artefacts taken away will be retrieved from across the world in 2022. Prof. Abba Tijani, Director-General, NCMM disclosed this recently during a telephone interview.…
BMW plans to create up to 6,000 new jobs next year to prepare for growing demand for its electric vehicles, the carmaker’s chief executive told daily Muenchner Merkur. BMW is on a very good path through the transformation and has…
Veteran singer and media personality, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy has lambasted his fans for calling out his lesbian daughter, Dewy, after his comment on Crossover service. The 71-year-old had earlier come under fire when he questioned the…
The Parliament of Guyana, where more than 10 billion barrels of oil equivalents have been discovered over the past half-decade, voted this week to amend its Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act that will govern a sovereign wealth fund managing the…
Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Friday signed the 2022 appropriation bill of N147.28 billion into law. This is contained in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onyebuchi Ememanka, and made available to Nigerian NewsDirect in…
