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Junior Achievement Africa boss Simi Nwogugu dropped numbers showing their youth programs pull about 20 bucks in economic returns for every dollar spent, according to JA Worldwide President Asheesh Advani, who cited research backing the claims. The org hits 1.5 million young people across 23...

Zamfara State Commissioner Lawal Barau Bungudu checked out their international airport build and said the terminal buildings should wrap up by late January, which supposedly opens investment doors across the region. Governor Dauda Lawal's administration wants to deliver something locals can...

AMCON boss Gbenga Alade said the debt recovery agency pushed back around 3.6 trillion naira to the Central Bank since it got started back in 2010, even though it still owes roughly 3 trillion after buying 1.7 trillion worth of bad bank loans. The agency brought in foreign asset tracers to hunt...

The Central Bank of Nigeria scrapped all deposit caps and bumped up weekly withdrawal ceilings to 500,000 naira for regular people and 5 million for companies starting next year, while slapping fees on anything above those limits at 3 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Banks can throw any...

Nigeria's top accountant, Shamsudeen Ogunjimi, told his colleagues at the Africa Accountant-Generals Conference in Accra that their gig has evolved way past just tracking numbers, and basically every public dollar they handle should actually make citizens' lives better. He said the modern...

VP Kashim Shettima told state governments, federal agencies, private companies, and development partners to keep pushing business environment reforms at the PEBEC awards ceremony in Abuja, saying the country needs everyone working together to actually get anywhere. He praised public servants for...

Nigeria just dropped its first-ever awards program for government-owned companies, and Finance Minister Wale Edun says it's basically about making sure public enterprises actually run properly instead of being trash. The MOFI Excellence Awards will hand out recognition to state agencies that...

Nigerian contractors from ICAN hit the Finance Ministry in Abuja for a second straight day, demanding payment for government work they finished last year. They blocked the main entrance with a canopy, trapped workers inside the building, and even dropped a white casket at the gate to make their...

CREDICORP just scaled up its digital device credit thing across Nigeria after running a successful pilot that got over 1,000 people their first smartphones through E-Finance Company and Credlock. Managing Director Uzoma Nwagba said the move helps hardworking Nigerians grab the tools they need to...

Nigeria got absolutely hammered by data breaches last quarter, with attacks jumping 1,047 percent compared to the previous three months, and eSentry dropped a report showing hackers were pulling about 6,101 attacks weekly through July. The criminals stopped bothering with technical exploits and...

A bunch of academics and government people told a University of Lagos conference that Africa needs to get its act together on land policy and city planning before urban population growth turns into a complete disaster. Prof Folasade Ogunsola from UNILAG pointed out that the continent will add...

Nigeria's airport authority boss, Olubunmi Kuku, told airlines to fix their schedules during the holiday rush because flight delays keep messing things up for travelers. The Federal Airports Authority started holding weekly coordination meetings with ground handlers and carriers instead of their...

Sterling Bank teamed up with Pan-Atlantic University's Enterprise Development Centre to hand out certificates to people finishing their Non-Oil Export Academy program. The bank's CEO, Abubakar Suleiman, said the whole point is building a crew of exporters who can actually compete globally...

NICON Town residents and landowners are telling a Lagos court to ditch the legal procedure Harris Dredging Limited and Nicon Town Management Company chose for their ownership case over property in Lekki. The defendants want Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi to switch the whole thing from an originating...

Namibia's telecom regulator, CRAN, locked down a partnership with the University of Namibia to work together on ICT stuff, cybersecurity projects, and capacity-building programs. The two groups want to pump up academic quality while giving local students and workers the tools they need to handle...

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe told the stock exchange that its shares are trading way below what the company is actually worth, and the board thinks this mismatch is making it harder to get decent funding for network upgrades. The telecom outfit started looking at corporate moves that might fix the...

Finnfund wants to dump cash into fiber networks across emerging markets next year because Kuutti Kilpeläinen thinks the digital divide is getting worse while data consumption keeps climbing. The firm manages around 1.3 billion euros total, with 200 million already parked in companies pushing...

Mozambique's telecom regulator INCM dropped their progress report at a meeting in Inhambane, and it connected over 200 schools to the internet while setting up 12 upgraded Digital Squares with fresh tech. The agency awarded contracts for 60 new cell towers in unconnected zones, opened a...

Cyber Gear snagged the Dubai AI Seal as one of the first local outfits to get government recognition for building AI agents and industry solutions. The company claims its autonomous agents can knock out three-month tasks in about an hour while running nonstop without adding headcount, and...

Dubai SME teamed up with Google to run a pilot program that gives 10 Emirati-owned small businesses free access to premium digital marketing tools, ad credits, and mentorship from both companies. Ahmad Alroom Almheiri from Dubai SME and Martin Roeske from Google announced the collaboration as...