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Fashion entrepreneur explores Ghana’s market
Fashion business is highly competitive. Only those with creative skills can survive. Hope Okonkwo has taken his expertise to Ghana. DANIEL ESSIET reports Hope Okonkwo is the chief executive, L’insoumis...
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‘Digital technology a veritable sector for young entrepreneurs’
From apps that teach financial skills to online business tutorials, digital tools are enabling youths to become successful entrepreneurs. A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Afterschool Centre for...
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Turning beads making hobby into business
A campus entrepreneur and Science Laboratory undergraduate of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Ebonyi State, Mercy Caleb Agwu, has turned her beads making hobby into a thriving business. DANIEL...
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Building a thriving hair-making business
Hair making has long been a lucrative business for women entrepreneurs. But dreadlocks may have become the new rave in town. The vocation is attracting some new generation service providers, DANIEL...
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How SMEs can survive, by experts
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should have long-term survival plans and be aware of innovations in products and services to build viable companies, speakers at the just-concluded SME Tink Tank...
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Empowering entrepreneurs
Legatum Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT),United States (US), has supported Nigerians to establish ventures and businesses that have made real economic impact in the country and the...
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How Nigeria can increase growth with technology
The eleventh Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) annual Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs) Conference, which held at the Pan Atlantic University, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Ajah, Lagos, highlighted how...
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Tackling poverty through entrepreneurship
The Dickson Leadership Training Institute International, a non-governmental organisation, is silently playing its role of facilitating, nurturing and promoting the development of entrepreneurship and...
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Corp member empower colleagues
A youth corp member Obasi Sixtus Nnamdi has organized a skill acquisition training programme for corp members of Mushin/Odiolowo local government Area, zone D Lagos. The exercise, which was centred on...
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How entrepreneurs can tap into $50b opportunities in media, by John Momoh
Nigeria provides one of the largest and fastest growing markets for entrepreneurs, according to Channels Media Group Chairman John Momoh. He was the keynote speaker at the Second Fate Annual Alumni...
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‘We’re here to build global companies’
The Managing Director, Melt water Entrepreneurial School of Technology(MEST), a pan-African entrepreneurial training programme, seed fund, and incubator, Aaron Fu, was in Lagos. He speaks with DANIEL...
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Linking artisans to global market place
Lagos State government has created an online marketplace to allow artisans sell their services to the world. The state believes that given a level playing field, artisans and tradesmen can help grow...
View ArticleWanted: industrial clusters to enhance small-scale manufacturing
Small entrepreneurs believe the economy can grow faster if the government promotes clustering and mini industrial zones where they will be exposed to shared infrastructure, DANIEL ESSIET reports. A...
View ArticleHow serial entrepreneur stays on top of the game
In a career spanning a decade, Jephter Akaehie, a United States (US) certified business success coach, has seemingly done it all. Now the serial entrepreneur has his eyes on a wellness care start-up,...
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They are young entrepreneurs, who have been inspired to start their businesses, turning their ideas into reality. They are participants in the just concluded Junior Chamber International (JCI) Lagos...
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Why we helped LAUTECH students during ASUU strike – RoyalNiddle
The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The purpose of life is not just to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived...
View ArticleEmpowering artisans to spur economic growth
The Lagos State government is retraining artisans to enable employers find tradesmen with advanced skills. With this, certified artisans are now listed in a compendium as well as online market place to...
View ArticleLagos govt to support incubation hubs
Lagos State government has reiterated its commitment to creating an enabling environment that will lead to the creation of new incubators in a bid to see more successful start-ups emerge. Commissioner...
View ArticleVocational school holds orientation
NO fewer than 150 pupils of Surulere Local Government, Lagos Vocational School have been admitted for the new session. The freshers were inducted at the council secretariat. The LG Chairman Tajudeen...
View ArticleYoung entrepreneurs change start-up scene
It is amazing to see the growth of the local start-up as young people venture into entrepreneurship. One area attracting interest is financial technology, also known as fintech. There are success...
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