Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu tapped Sulaimon Ogunmuyiwa to run the Office of Education Quality Assurance after the guy spent 25 years grinding through the state education system from classroom teacher all the way up to director-level spots. Ogunmuyiwa holds a PhD in educational administration, plus two master's degrees, and he basically knows every corner of how Lagos schools get monitored and accredited since he already headed up quality assurance services before this promotion.
The dude started out teaching in 1995 before computer skills got him moved into admin work as a personal assistant to some education district boss. People who worked with him say he stays firm on standards without being a jerk about it, and he regularly...
Nigeria's transparency watchdog is hyping up Maria van der Hoeven getting tapped to run the global mining and oil accountability group EITI after she spent years bossing the International Energy Agency and serving as an energy minister back in the Netherlands. NEITI head Musa Sarkin-Adar says her background fits perfectly since extractive industries are getting hammered by the climate transition mess, and the country wants to push harder on accountability standards.
Van der Hoeven previously ran IEA from 2011 through 2015 before landing board gigs at TotalEnergies and other energy outfits, and she's replacing Helen Clark from New Zealand, who's been chairing since 2019. Nigerian officials and civil society groups are calling her...
Ogun State teamed up with Soilless Farm Lab to train kids on high-tech farming methods, and the program just graduated its 12th batch after teaching 12,000 young people across Nigeria how to grow food year-round using greenhouses. The state's agriculture advisor, Angel Adelaja, said earlier graduates got 5 million naira in grants plus free land to launch their own farms, and many are already running successful operations that help feed communities.
The three-year pilot created 240 companies that pull in over 40 million naira monthly from vegetable production, built 960 greenhouses, and reached another 18,000 people through secondary training. Project manager Peace Bassey pointed out that graduates scored over 50 million naira in...
Abuja phone and internet users are getting wrecked by terrible service after a diesel supplier group called NOGASA cut off fuel to cell towers that keep MTN and Airtel running through a company named IHS Nigeria. The telecom regulator NCC admitted the capital city is basically having a meltdown, and they're trying to get everyone at the table to fix the fuel mess that's tanking signal quality.
The bigger problem is that telecom companies can't even build more backup infrastructure because local authorities keep blocking permits for new towers and equipment. NCC says they're working on getting the diesel flowing again, but subscribers are stuck dealing with dropped calls and dead zones while the government sorts out the supply chain...
Enugu dropped its 2026 plan to make doing business way easier after the state jumped from dead last at 36th to 6th place in the national rankings. Trade commissioner Sam Ogbu-Nwobodo ran a feedback session at the local chamber of commerce where business groups got to weigh in on the reforms before they go live, and he says getting private sector input upfront makes the whole thing actually work better.
The action plan tackles four main areas, like sorting out land paperwork, getting fiber-optic cables everywhere for internet, setting up public-private partnerships, and fixing tax stuff. They ditched fees for laying fiber cables if companies agree to connect schools in all 260 wards across the state, which should help keep rural kids...
Nigeria Customs and the petroleum regulator NMDPRA are teaming up harder to stop fuel meant for local use from getting smuggled out to neighboring countries. Customs boss Adewale Adeniyi met with NMDPRA's Ogbugo Ukoha in Abuja to talk about keeping energy supplies locked down at home. They're hyping up Operation Whirlwind as proof that their partnership actually works through shared intel and coordinated crackdowns at the borders.
Adeniyi says Customs will keep backing the new petroleum export guidelines NMDPRA is cooking up since Nigeria's shifting from importing fuel to making enough to sell abroad. Ukoha pointed out that ditching fuel subsidies killed most of the profit motive for smugglers, but enforcement still matters.
Both...
Dr. Muda Yusuf from the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise says Nigeria's electricity overhaul won't happen overnight. The head of CPPE explained that politics, weak institutions, and messy infrastructure mean changes will take forever rather than drop instantly. He pointed out that the sector is drowning in almost 4 trillion naira of debt, and the whole setup is basically broken without real fixes to how things work and how money flows.
The big issue is that electricity prices don't actually cover costs because the government worries about backlash after other economic shakeups, like removing fuel subsidies. Without charging what power actually costs, companies can't make enough money to keep operations running or bring in...
Nigeria cranks out eight million metric tons of bananas yearly but barely scratches the global export game while countries like Cameroon bank millions selling fruit overseas. Dr. Olufemi Oladunni from the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute said plant diseases like Panama TR4 and Black Sigatoka wrecked traditional suppliers in Latin America, and the opening could net Nigeria a chunk of the 140 billion dollar banana market if quality control and logistics got fixed.
The country shipped only 45,000 bucks worth of bananas to the UK last year, compared to Cameroon pulling nearly 10 million euros from that market alone. Ambassador Adeniyi Sola Bunmi from Gogreen Africa Initiative said Nigeria already dominates production...
Seplat Energy grabbed three awards that highlight how the company keeps crushing it financially while also backing education and sustainability projects across Africa. The Nigerian outfit scored the Market Excellence Award for best net asset ratio on the stock exchange, won Upstream Deal of the Year at a global energy conference in London, and took home Education Intervention of the Year from SERAS Africa for its community programs.
The PEARL Awards judges said Seplat converts assets into earnings better than competitors on the Nigerian Exchange, and the company landed among the top global dealmakers shaping upstream energy. SERAS founder Ken Egbas said African businesses need to connect growth with inclusion and profit with purpose...
