• Cina USA

    Coupang kicks off massive sales for China’s Singles Day

    South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang has launched a three-day “Singles Day Mega Sale” to celebrate China’s annual shopping bonanza. The massive sales, from Nov. 10 to 12, was inspired by the Chinese version of US’ Black Fri

  • Francia Indonesia

    Paris Baguette lands in Indonesia

    SPC Group said Thursday it opened the nation’s first Paris Baguette bakery in the Ashta District 8 shopping mall of Indonesia capital Jakarta. The move comes after the South Korean food company set up a joint venture with its local partner, E

  • USA

    Hanwha Q Cells to supply power to 154,000 Texas residents

    Hanwha Q Cells said Thursday it will break ground on its first energy storage systems project in Texas in January. According to the solar business unit of Hanwha Solutions, the 380-megawatt-hour project, once completed in December next year, will be

  • USA

    FITC Trains 200,000 Participants On Business Operations, Survival

    The Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC) has trained about 200,000 participants, in the last 40 years, on how to operate their businesses, infusing technology and necessary business skills to stand the test of time. The 200,000 participants trained by FITC spread across 3,500 organisations, from six continents, including Africa, Asia, ...

  • Nigeria

    Emefiele Woos Foreign Investors, Says Nigeria Ready For Business

    Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele has appealed to foreign investors to come over and invest in Nigeria, whose economy he said is fast growing after recovering from the COVID-19 induced recession. Mr Emefiele assured the investing community that CBN will continue to monitor progress and ...

  • Nigeria

    Konga, Access Bank Partner To Offer Free Food To Needy Nigerians

    Nigeria e-commerce company, Konga has partnered with Access Bank Plc to offer free delivery of essential and quality food items to needy Nigerians across the country, during the 30 days of Konga Yakata sales. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP, the company disclosed that interested and public-spirited Nigerians at ...

  • Nigeria

    Banks Order Staff To Monitor Accounts Used For Crypto Trade

    Commercial banks have instructed their staff to commence monitoring of accounts suspected to be used for trading cryptocurrencies in the country. The move was to comply with the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on this development. The CBN had earlier this year moved against crypto trading in ...

  • Nigeria

    SEC Urges Firms To Leverage Islamic Capital Market

    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has assured that it would continue to encourage corporates to leverage on Islamic capital market by providing and ensuring an attractive enabling environment. The director-general of SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, stated this  at the 2021 African International Conference on Islamic Finance held in Abuja ...

  • Nigeria

    NITDA Will Partner Army To Tackle Insecurity In Nigeria

    In another giant step towards addressing security challenges bedeviling the country, the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, through its National Centre for Artificial Intelligence Robotics and Robotics, NCAIR, is to collaborate with the Nigeria security operatives in the manufacture of locally made military equipment to tackle insecurity. The initiative ...

  • Kenya Nigeria

    Kenya To Work With Nigeria In Tourism, Hospitality

    Kenyan High commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Wilfred Machage has indicated the interest of Kenya to work closely with Nigeria in tourism and hospitality. The envoy also decried the stagnation of intra-African trade by 15% in the last few years compared to the levels in Europe and Asia which stand at ...