“Within the international community, Africa is the last frontier for economic growth, with Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy with rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $510bn, at the epicentre of this global attraction. With a huge population size in excess of 160 million people and vast market opportunity therein, foreign investors can hardly ignore the investment …
Ladybrille congratulates Nigeria’s Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams for their win of the 2014 CNBC Africa All Africa Business Leaders Awards. Read the details of the award event and winners. Chude Jideonwo, 29 and Adebola Williams, 28 have been announced as winners of the CNBC Africa All Africa Business Leaders Awards 2014 – for the …
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“Entrepreneur Barrett Ward freely admits he has no fashion sense. It’s a somewhat strange admission for a man who started and runs a company that sells scarves, bracelets and leather goods. But Ward also admits to something else: a drive to pull African women out of poverty. Ward is the founder and CEO of fashionABLE, …
This is very encouraging for women entrepreneurs within and outside Nigeria. Cheers, Uduak “The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed that 60% of the N220billion it recently earmarked for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises would be channelled to women entrepreneurs in the country. CBN branch controller in Port Harcourt, Mr Jude …
The Future Project (TFP) in partnership with Nigeria’s leading jobs portal, Jobberman.com has formally announced its employability programme, Intern4Jobs which will up-skill and connect at least 100,000 young West Africans to jobs and job opportunities through internships over the next two years. “There are 64 million youths in Nigeria (under-35). Over 54 percent of that …