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APM Terminals cut a deal with a local barge company to grow operations around Apapa port. The exclusive lease with Barging Marine Solutions aims to boost capacity and offer better land and water connections. APM's CEO, Keith Svendsen, said the Nigerian market is expanding, and they want to...

Nigerian seaports saw a massive jump in exports last quarter. The Port Authority reported export container numbers exploding by over a thousand percent. Total cargo handled hit 33.52 million metric tons, a solid increase from the previous year. The data shows a huge rebalance in container...

The government says it's throwing major money at farming to boost the economy. The agriculture minister, Abubakar Kyari, laid out the plan at a ministry retreat in Abuja. The focus is on big investments in equipment, irrigation, and processing plants. They are making deals with foreign tractor...

The national debt office warned state governments to follow the law when taking loans. The DMO director general, Patience Oniha, spoke at a training session in Abuja for state officials. She said borrowing outside the legal framework risks their financial health. Oniha explained that the...

Government officials toured a massive sugar factory being built by BUA Foods in Kwara State. The Minister of State for Industry, John Owan Enoh, and the head of the Sugar Development Council, Kamar Bakrin, inspected the Lafiagi facility. BUA's chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, is backing the project...

A House committee ordered the Central Bank to finish reconciling its books with finance officials. The Public Accounts Committee chairman, Bamidele Salam, set a deadline of January 19th. This follows a House resolution that summoned the CBN governor after he missed several invitations. The...

The Central Bank governor made a play for foreign money, telling investors Nigeria is a serious place for business. Olayemi Cardoso spoke at a roundtable in Washington, D.C., hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He argued the country is sticking to strict economic rules and clear policies...

The National Pension Commission paid out over 577 billion naira to retirees and contributors. Their director general, Omolola Oloworaran, announced this at a summit, crediting a 758 billion naira federal government bailout for old pension debts. That money, raised from bonds, covered things like...

Schneider Electric says it's still pushing the UN's development goals in Nigeria, focusing on education and jobs. Their country president for West Africa, Ajibola Akindele, said this while opening a new testing center at the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas on Bonny Island in Rivers State. The...

Experts at an estate surveyors' conference in Lagos said public-private partnerships need ethics above all else to work. The event was run by the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers. A speaker named Dr. Samson Agbator argued that these projects fail without transparent...

Two guys launched a mobile app to fight real estate fraud in Nigeria. The app is called Ist Choice Property, made by Taiwo Joel Oladapo and Gbenga Agbana. They introduced it at an event in Lagos. This is apparently the first tool of its kind in Nigeria and West Africa. The CEO, Oladapo, said...

A businessman named Niyi John Olajide told African leaders they need to fix their economic policies. He leads Cavista Holdings and the Corporate Council on Africa. He spoke at a big ceremony hosted by the Ooni of Ife, where Ghana's President John Mahama got a chieftaincy title. Other heavy...

An online school called the Open Institute of Technology, or OPIT, is trying to cash in on Africa's need for tech skills. They are a fully accredited European Union institution. Their big sell is a flexible Bachelor's degree in Computer Science starting next January. They are aiming at...

Yango Tech, a B2B tech firm, is locking down deals with ten new international partners. They are specifically naming ROOTS, a food and retail company, and Grand Hypermarkets as two of those partners. Their automation tech for online grocery is going into nearly a hundred Grand Hypermarket stores...

Tech Mahindra is partnering with Google Cloud to push businesses into using more advanced AI agents. The deal focuses on implementing Google's latest Gemini Enterprise models to help companies build specialized, automated AI assistants. They plan to combine Tech Mahindra's consulting and...

Ooredoo Kuwait says it's making its networks basically run themselves, aiming for a high level of automation they call Autonomous Network Level 4. This means using AI to predict problems, fix issues automatically, and optimize energy use without much human input. They already got some...

A Saudi telecom giant's infrastructure arm, center3, is partnering with an AI firm called HUMAIN to build advanced data centers for AI in the kingdom. Their new joint venture aims to create facilities that can handle up to one gigawatt of AI computing power. The goal is to combine expertise in...

An Egyptian fintech company named Valu is teaming up with Infinity, a big renewable energy and EV charging firm, to help people finance electric car stuff. The deal, announced at a recent electric vehicle expo, lets customers use flexible payment plans to buy home chargers and pay for public...

A Turkish tech firm called KocDigital is pushing harder into the Middle East and North Africa. They were a big presence at a major industrial tech event in Saudi Arabia, showing off their AI-powered factory software. The company also officially joined a major Saudi government initiative aiming...

A new survey from Mastercard shows that UAE holiday shoppers care mostly about getting the best deal. Most people are buying through multiple methods, and a growing number are using AI tools to help them shop. The report says shoppers are now more strategic, starting their buying early and doing...