IRETI, a health-tech startup that helps women to bridge the gap and manages breast cancer, has emerged winner of the Wema Bank’s Hackaholics 4.0. Reports have it that the winner was announced at the weekend during the Wema Bank/ALAT Hackaholics Digital Summit and Grand Finale tagged ‘Re-imagine: Disrupting the Ecosystem for Scale’ held in Lagos. The grand event which was pioneered by the bank succinctly addressed and provided solutions to issues faced by startups and...

The Federal Government is planning to make the Ajaokuta environ a Free Trade Zone to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and to diversify the economy of the country. Prince Shuaibu Abubakar-Audu, Minister of Steel Development revealed this during a visit to the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCOL) on Wednesday, as he took a tour of the complex. Abubakar-Audu said that the visit was aimed at getting first-hand knowledge of the problems that halted production in...

As part of efforts towards attaining the ActionAid Women’s Voice and Leadership project’s anticipated outcome of Improving the Management and Sustainability of Local Women’s Rights Organizations, and enhancing advocacy and programming for gender equality in Nigeria, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Women’s Rights and Health Project (WRAHP) has coordinated a two-day training on setting up an operational mechanisms for Village Savings and Loan Association Scheme. The two-day training which took place at Ireti Resource Center in...

The Nigeria Forum 2023 is set to hold a business summit on Monday, 2nd October to address challenges and unlock business opportunities in Nigeria. Dr. Brian Reuben, the convener in a press statement made available to journalists stated that the prestigious Nigeria Forum, organised by the Sixteenth Council, aka Brian Reuben Policy Group United Kingdom, is set to take place on October 2nd, 2023, in Ikoyi, Lagos. The statement read, “This esteemed annual event draws policymakers, business...

Governor Chukwuma Soludo has contracted a Canadian-based infrastructure advisory organisation, CPCS Transcom Limited, to prepare and design a master plan for rail line network for Anambra State. The rail lines would run from Onitsha, the state’s commercial nerve centre, to Ihiala, targeting the Oseokwa Port through Nnewi, Igbo-Ukwu, Ekwulobia, Oko down to Umunze, the border town to Abia and Imo, General Manager, Anambra State Bureau of Public Procurement (ANSBPP), Mr Okey Ezeobi, told journalists on...

Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, Anambra State Governor has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of Kojo Auto Assembly and Natural Gas Facility in Umunya, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State A press statement by Christian Aburime, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor on Saturday noted that the plant is the second automobile company after Innoson Motors and first CNG manufacturing automobile company in the state, and will also house the first CNG station located at Umunya....

The proliferation of illegal lottery houses in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, and environs has become a great concern to the Borno Geographic Information Service (BOGIS). Adam Bababe, the Executive Secretary of the BOGIS in a statement said there was a noticeable increase in people leasing out their lands in residential and commercial areas for lottery or game houses. He explained that Section 13, sub-section 2 of the Borno State Land Use Regulation 2022, mandates...