Category Archives: News

Abisoye Fagade, Sodium Group MD, Declares Gubernatorial Aspirations, Launches Foundation

Founder and Managing Director of Sodium Group of companies, Abisoye Fagade, recently announced his intentions to join the gubernatorial race for Oyo State in 2023. This announcement was made at his birthday event, where he also officially launched his foundation – the OSMD Network.  An astute and well respected businessman, Abisoye stated his commitment to […]

Abisoye Fagade Celebrates Birthday In Grand Style

Friends, colleagues, partners, and family members gathered to celebrate Abisoye Fagade as he marked his birthday party on Wednesday, March 8, 2022. The star-studded event was organised by Friends of Fagade Abisoye, and held at the prestigious Civic Center, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event was well attended by Nigerian political heavyweights who showed up to […]

MTN Group Re-affirms its Commitment to Nigeria

MTN Group this week committed to support a bi-national conference for businesses operating in South Africa and Nigeria during the first visit to its South African headquarters of the chairman of MTN Nigeria, the Group’s biggest operating company.   The commitment was made to Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa H.E. Muhammed Haruna Manta when […]

MTN Partners with NIDCOM to Offer 5000 Ukraine Returnees Humanitarian Aid

MTN, in partnership with the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has offered 5000 evacuated returnees displaced by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war more humanitarian aid to ease their premature return to the country. “1,199 have been evacuated so far from Ukraine,” NIDCOM announced in a Twitter post on March 11, 2022. “Returnees are also getting a […]

The Pandemic Undid The Global Strides Made Towards Gender Equality. By Joanna Baidu

Over the past decades, the movement to dismantle organised bias against women in workplaces, politics, academia, fast-tracking of economic opportunities and access to healthcare has been gaining ground. While society remains unequal, these gains were unequivocally meritorious and resulted from the tenacity of women driving it. However, in just over two years, Covid-19 undid the […]

Project Management Institute Empowers Professionals to Play Active Roles in Organisational Transformation with New Online Course Series

The PMI Organisational Transformation series helps project managers, project professionals, and teams acquire the skills needed to support their organisation’s strategic overhaul   Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading association for the project management profession, today launched the PMI® Organisational Transformation (OT) Series, a full suite of online courses and resources dedicated to helping lead […]

MTN Supports Entertainment Through Tech With Davido’s O2 Concert

The much-anticipated show of 2022 ended to lots of fanfare as Davido shut down the O2 Arena with an impressive lineup of global music artists. The star-studded event, which was streamed live to millions of music lovers across the world, was enabled by MTN’s partnership with Udux, a music streaming platform. The show started at […]

The Critical Challenges In Nigeria’s Tourism Sector And How We Are Solving Them – Honeywell Group’s CFO

With the dearth of financing in the COVID-19 impacted sectors like hospitality, tourism and aviation, capital injection from strong financial institutions have proven to be the way to wade the tumultuous tide. Kemi Adeoye who serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Honeywell Group Limited, owners of the Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, has stressed that […]

Four Things To Expect As Davido Takes The O2 Arena Today

Nigerian hitmaker, Davido, is set to headline his sold-out concert tagged ‘We Rise By Lifting Others’ at London’s O2 arena by 9pm today. This marks his second appearance at the arena since 2019 and as usual, we are holding our breaths for what promises to be one of the biggest concerts of 2022.  Here are […]

MTN Waives International Calls and SMS for Consumers Affected By the Russia-Ukraine War

In view of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, MTN has announced it will be offering free international calls and SMS to all existing prepaid and postpaid customers, effective immediately. This offer is aimed at supporting customers to stay in touch with their loved ones while eliminating associated International Direct Dialing (IDD) costs due to high […]