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Turkish Airlines and South African Airways are locked in a codeshare deal that kicks off next year, with Turkish boss Ahmet Bolat and SAA chief John Lamola signing papers in Geneva. Turkish gets to slap its flight codes on SAA routes, hitting Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth...

PalmPay boss Chika Nwosu got on stage at the CeBIH conference and basically said the fintech game needs to stop half-assing it when it comes to reaching people who still can't access banking. The company runs around 500,000 agents who handle cash transactions for folks without bank accounts, and...

Federal tax collectors are linking up with security agencies and anti-corruption units ahead of the National Revenue Service Act kicking in next year. CSP Kyes Bakfur from the FIRS Special Enforcement Division told people at a Lagos meeting that hunting down tax dodgers needs way better intel...

Nigeria just rolled out a digital platform for gas trading that Minister Ekperikpe Ekpo says will make the whole market way more transparent and competitive. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority teamed up with JEX Markets to build this thing that handles...

Bank of Industry teamed up with the National Credit Guarantee Company to drop N10 billion in backed loans for women running businesses across Nigeria. Managing Director Olasupo Olusi from BOI is pushing this GLOW program that gives women entrepreneurs easier financing with a seven percent...

The consumer protection agency locked down Ikeja Electric's head office in Lagos after the power company kept ignoring orders to split one hotel account into 20 separate residential meters. Providence Real Estate got stuck without electricity for over two years, even though they paid everything...

Nigerian lawmakers shut down any talk of subsidizing airline tickets for the holidays, but they want the government to slash airport fees by half instead. Representative Obinna Aguocha pushed for transparent cost assessments to figure out what airlines actually need to operate during the...

NASENI just dropped a program called FutureMakers that targets kids between 5 and 16 years old across Nigerian schools. Executive Vice Chairman Khalil Suleiman Halilu wants to turn curious students into legit innovators by giving them access to design thinking workshops, prototyping labs, and...

Captain Evarest Nnaji, who holds licenses from both the FAA and NCAA and chairs OAS Helicopters, wrote about how planes handle bumpy flights. He explained that rough patches happen when atmospheric moisture and other stuff weaken air molecules in certain spots, and these weaker pockets make it...

Yobe State locked down a deal with the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency to get the Muhammadu Buhari International Cargo Airport in Damaturu ready for actual commercial flights. Managing Director Farouq Ahmed Umar signed for NAMA, while Commissioner Muhammad Muhammad Bara and Permanent...

Lagos-based Optimus AI Labs wants to fix customer service nightmares at Nigerian banks by dropping an AI-powered support platform that handles queries without making people wait 40 minutes to talk to a human. CEO Lanre Basamta said the system uses natural language processing to resolve problems...

Abia State Governor Alex Otti broke ground on a 7.5MVA substation project in Umuahia with the Niger Delta Power Holding Company handling construction under the National Integrated Power Project. The build includes a kilometer of 33kV line, 1.2 kilometers of 11kV line, two 300kVA distribution...

Nigeria's Joint Tax Board rebranded itself as the Joint Revenue Board and dropped a fresh logo at their meeting in Abuja, with Chairman Zacch Adedeji saying the switch represents a bigger push toward unified revenue collection across federal and state systems. The rebrand follows legislation...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu told his cabinet to start working on a blue economy plan that turns Nigeria's 853-kilometer coastline and waterways into actual money instead of just sitting there doing nothing. Vice President Kashim Shettima delivered the message at a meeting with National Institute...

Nigeria's cabinet just signed off on buying 200 electric buses for 58 billion naira through the National Automotive Design and Development Council, and they greenlit a 187 billion naira headquarters for the Bank of Industry at Eko Atlantic City. Minister of State for Industry John Eno said they...

Nigeria's tax collectors sent a thank-you note to Vintage Press Limited for actually paying their bills on time, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service called out the publisher of The Nation Newspapers for solid VAT compliance and accurate tax filings. Tax Controller Afolabi A.O. signed off on...

Nigeria pumped 71.5 million liters of petrol per day through the system after NNPC imported extra stock to cover Christmas demand and clear a backlog of vessels that got delayed from the previous month. The spike followed weaker September and October supply levels that sat below what the country...

Kogi State Governor Ahmed Ododo rolled out plans for the Ajaokuta Economic City free trade zone with Chinese and Turkish investors at a meeting in Abuja, and the project is supposed to pull in 500 million dollars per year while creating 50,000 jobs. The governor thanked President Bola Tinubu for...

Zain KSA teamed up with KoçDigital to push Industry 4.0 tech into Saudi factories, and the deal is supposed to help manufacturers modernize their operations while fitting into Vision 2030 goals. KoçDigital brings Platform 360 with use cases for supply chain optimization and quality control...

stc Bahrain is hooking up Bahrain Development Bank with AWS cloud management and cybersecurity stuff as part of a deal to beef up tech infrastructure for the financial sector. Chief Business Officer Hesham Mustafa said the move is supposed to help BDB run things faster and more securely while...