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FoodCo just snagged Retail Brand of the Year at the Nigerian Business Leadership Awards for the second time in a row, and it's their fifth trophy from that series overall. BusinessDay handed out the recognition, with publisher Frank Aigbogun praising the supermarket chain for staying competitive...

Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers sponsored The Library installation at ART X Lagos, which just hit its tenth anniversary, with a theme about reimagining African cities. The setup was basically a quiet zone filled with books from the G.A.S. Foundation art library, curator research materials, cinema...

Lagos just wrapped its 11th climate summit at the Continental Hotel, and Governor Sanwo-Olu pitched the city's coastline as a money printer if they can stop it from washing away first. The big play involves converting ocean resources into actual revenue through coastal protection projects...

Dr Biodun Shobanjo basically told 45 newly minted ARCON Fellows that their fancy titles mean nothing if they're just collecting dust on a wall. The advertising legend compared the fellowship to how lawyers treat the SAN designation, saying it needs to actually stand for something real instead of...

Elvis Nduibisi Iruh, who runs The Voice News Magazine out of the Netherlands, told Nigerian media people they need to stop pushing stories that make the country look bad. He thinks the negative coverage scares off investors and makes Africa look worse than it actually is. The guy was in Lagos...

Alpha teamed up with Roadrunner to launch electric tricycles in Nigeria, and they're pitching them as a way to cut pollution while making it easier for delivery drivers to actually afford the vehicles. The companies are offering lease-to-own financing, so operators don't have to drop a huge...

Lafarge Africa just finished renovating a school in Agbesi, Ewekoro, Ogun State, and they went pretty hard on the upgrades. The company fixed up five classroom blocks, expanded the head teacher's office, and built new dining halls and bathrooms. They also threw in a playground and a football...

Full Bucket Music just dropped FB-02, and it's basically a software recreation of that old Yamaha FB-01 synth module from the mid-80s. The thing runs on Windows and macOS through a bunch of different plugin formats, and apparently, it's built with native C++ to keep the CPU usage pretty light...

BRAC threw their annual youth fest in Savar with over 250 kids showing off social impact projects they built from scratch. The Carnival of Change ran exhibitions and workshops where young entrepreneurs pitched everything from disability-friendly audiobooks to coconut shell charcoal startups...

Some Dhaka University professor just dropped an analysis about what Tarique Rahman wants to do with Bangladesh if the BNP gets power, and the whole thing went down at a policy talk hosted by a brand-new outfit called the Initiative for Policy and Politics. Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman Khan basically...

BNP's Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury dropped their whole economic game plan at some conference in Dhaka, and the party is swearing they can pump out 10 million jobs within a year and a half if they win elections. The standing committee guy said they want Bangladesh hitting a trillion-dollar GDP...

Khaleda Zia is lying in a hospital bed fighting serious health problems, and people across Bangladesh are sending prayers regardless of which party they back. The former prime minister refused to bail on the country when military types tried pushing her into exile back in 2007, and that move...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin put out a message saying he is worried about Khaleda Zia getting sicker while she is stuck in a private hospital getting treatment. The former PM and BNP boss is dealing with serious health problems, and Shahabuddin asked everyone across Bangladesh to keep her in...

Nepal's embassy set up shop at the charity bazaar thing FOSA runs every year, and they brought pashminas, handicrafts, and a bunch of traditional stuff that got people hyped. The food corner serving actual Nepali dishes ended up being the big draw at the event. Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain...

Club Notredamians Bangladesh wrapped up their President Cup Indoor Tournament after a month of games across table tennis, chess, carrom, pool, and snooker. The competition pulled 115 members from different graduating classes, and they added snooker for the first time this year. Badrul Hassan...

Bangladesh dropped their first-ever U-21 Hockey World Cup game against Australia but made it interesting with a 5-3 scoreline that had Amirul Islam bagging three goals off penalty corner drag-flicks. The Aussies jumped ahead fast, and Dylan Brick plus Ian Grobbelaar kept piling on through set...

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters that Khaleda Zia cannot handle flying anywhere until her body stabilizes from the mess she is dealing with right now. The 80-year-old ex-PM got hospitalized after heart and lung infections turned into pneumonia, and she is stuck in the coronary care...

BNP rolled out a month-long celebration plan for Victory Day that kicks off at Kalurghat Radio Station in Chattogram, where Zia first announced independence back in 1971. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir laid out the whole schedule at a press conference in Gulshan, and he said this year hits...

BNP keeps telling everyone to stop mobbing Evercare Hospital while Khaleda Zia gets treatment in the coronary unit, but party loyalists are not listening. People kept showing up from different neighborhoods asking about her condition after word spread that things got worse, and some prayer group...

Engineers and disaster nerds threw a seminar in Dhaka, warning that Bangladesh had better get its act together before a big earthquake wrecks everything. The problem is not the structural work getting better, but crappy soil testing that leads to garbage foundations, according to Abdullah Al...