On October 1st, 2011, Nigeria’s independence anniversary, Le Petit Marche prepares to launch L’Espace, a centralized retail store where Nigeria’s fashionistas can shop for designs at affordable prices. L’Espace is the growing response to a need for more retail boutiques in the country. See the details on the launch from LPM below: “In the storied …
Le Petit Marche Now Accepting Stall Reservations for August 2011
The August LPM is almost here, and as usual LPM is gearing up to dose you with another absolutely awesome round of retail therapy! This month’s ‘banquet’ has been planned to ensure that we shut down August on a retail-propelled high!!! So, we’re inviting interested vendors to reserve a stand at this month’s Marche. Hurry, …
The Business of Blogging: What You Need to Know- Part I
So everyone is blogging these days and it seems to be the rave. “Hmm . . .” you think to yourself. “Maybe I should blog.” You read somewhere bloggers are earning a lot of money these days, plus you can clearly see a handful gaining celebrity status, both off and online. If you are convinced …
Forbes.com Profiles Nollywood Love Founder Jason Njoku
“Nigerian-born Jason Njoku is at the vanguard of Nollywood’s digital revolution. (Nollywood, remember, is Nigeria’s booming movie industry.) In his early thirties, Jason is the founder of NollywoodLove, a YouTube channel that streams the most recent Nigerian movies for audiences scattered across the world. In less than a year since launching, Njoku has built one …
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, "I am Not the Type of Person that is Easily Cowed by Threats"
Nigeria’s new finance minister says she has been threatened by ‘vested interests’. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former World Bank managing director, tells Lesley Curwen that she is not the type of person who is easily cowed by threats. Listen to the interview here. Photocredit: BBC Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer …
Nigeria, Federal Republic of Failure? Privatisation: The Criminal Auctioning of Nigeria
“WHATEVER might be the reasons for its decision, we must thank the Nigerian Senate for the investigation conducted last week, into the privatisation and commercialisation programme of the government. Let me state that as early as the 1980s, when the imperialist powers began to ram down the throats of the ruling classes of neo-colonial countries …