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Steve Babaeko Named A Visiting Fellow At The University of Reading

Steve Babaeko, Founder and CEO of Nigeria’s first pan-African Creative advertising Agency, X3M Ideas, has been named a Visiting Fellow of Henley Business School, University of Reading in the United Kingdom. The fellowship which will run for two years until 2024 will see Steve Babaeko commence research into business cases that will further the development […]

MTN Nigeria Holds Award Ceremony To Appreciate Sales Associates & Partners

MTN Nigeria recently concluded a three-day event to celebrate its sales associates and partners across the country. The activities started with the Annual Sales Conference themed “Excellerate – the Future of Sales & Distribution” to equip the team for challenges of the new year. An award ceremony to recognize staff and trade partners with exceptional […]

Lagos State Commends Y’ello Doctor Initiative

One of the six Y’ello Doctor Mobile clinics will provide health care services to communities in Lagos state. This is following the handover of the vehicle by MTN Foundation to the Lagos State Government at the state ministry of health. The handover ceremony had in attendance several executives from the State Ministry of Health including […]

BHM’s Finance Lead Oyindamola Benjamin-Black Departs after 8 years

BHM has today announced the exit of its Head of Finance And Business Administration, Oyindamola Benjamin-Black.   Oyindamola will be leaving the company after over eight years, to take on a senior role at Canada’s leading construction supervisory and management company, Capital Paving Inc.   She joined BHM in 2013, as a Financial Accountant and […]

Converting Data to Wisdom, Key to Transforming SMEs in Nigeria – Olutokun Toriola

Sparkle’s webinar for SMEs themed, “Simplifying Support for Small Businesses”, sheds light on how digitization and smart use of data can help SMEs transform their business and improve access to capital.    More than 95% of registered businesses around the world are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Africa is no different. According to the World […]

Ayeni Adekunle – ICCO Global Summit 2021 Panel Session: Balancing free speech, dangerous speech, free media, and misinformation

Moderator: Jodie Ginsberg, CEO, Internews Speakers: Patrick Penninckx, Head of Information Society, Council of Europe; Elena Fadeeva, CEO and Founder, FleishmanHillard Vanguard; Sally Lehrman, Founder, The Trust Project Jodie Thank you, and welcome to this session on free speech, dangerous speech, free media, and misinformation in which our panelists will attempt to solve in 45 […]

Preaching the Gospel of Africa: Opportunities for Global Communication Professionals. By Femi Falodun.

On October 17, 2021, I joined the world’s leading PR and communications experts from over 30 countries to attend the ICCO Global Summit in London. The experience was made even more special because BHM, ID Africa’s sister company, was participating as Africa’s first platinum sponsor of the event, and I was also going to be […]

Talent Retention In PR: Building Superstars To Grow The Ecosystem. By Enitan Kehinde.

What do public relations agencies have in common besides the effects of COVID-19? High employee turnover. While the world is dealing with Coronavirus, the ICCO World PR Report 2020 showed that the global PR industry is also dealing with a pandemic of its own – loss and scarcity of skilled talent. Based on the conversations […]

Moliehi Molekoa – ICCO Global Summit 2021 Panel Session: What can we do to accelerate pace of change?

Speakers: Sue Hardwick, Co-Founder, Global Women in PR; Melissa Arulappan, Head of Corporate Communications, IQVIA; Anna Gefert, Managing Director, HERA Communication Strategies; Heather Kernahan, CEO, Hotwire Angela In this new hybrid working environment, what can we do to accelerate the pace of change? So, we’re doing a hybrid event of course here. So, hybrid discussion. […]