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President Bola Tinubu calls on African nations to deepen regional cooperation and strategically deploy sovereign wealth funds to accelerate development, emphasizing infrastructure, climate resilience, and job creation Peculiar Adirika

MTN Nigeria boasts a 95% Nigerian executive team, leading the charge in local representation for economic sustainability and national pride within the telecommunications sector Oreoluwa Ojelabi

Microsoft is set to lay off 6,000 employees, representing nearly 3% of its global workforce, as part of an organisational restructuring Peculiar Adirika

The government must cease its repetitive promises of job creation, which have become mere rhetoric. The approach to job creation is not complex, but in Nigeria, government actions are characterised by an overwhelming array of conflicting statements, only to circle back with the same promises every few years. Also read: …

Complainant in the criminal charge LD/CR/26/2024, filed against two lawyers and a businessman at the Lagos High Court, TBS, by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Dr. Obidigwe Eze has urged the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice (AG), Lawal Pedro (SAN) to resist the temptation to discontinue the prosecution …

West African fintech startup, Wave Mobile Money Group, laid off 15% of its staff last month. This comes as a surprise because Wave seems to be doing good in recent times. In the first quarter of this year, Wave Digital Finance, a subsidiary of Wave became the first non-bank, non-telecom …

Over the years, the method of working has experienced various changes, and so have the reasons for doing so. Finding and engaging in meaningful work has also become popular as many different employment options are springing up; freelancing is one of them. Meaningful work simply explains having a genuine connection …

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo to proceed with the recruitment of 774,000 youths. They are to undertake public works across the 774 local government areas from where 1,000 each are to be hired. Each participant is to be paid N20,000 monthly …

The Nigerian private sector has remained in decline at the end of the second quarter of the year, with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and associated restrictions to prevent its spread continuing to impact operations. That said, a loosening of the lockdown led to softer declines in output and new …

Despite predictions of a huge rise in unemployment due to the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on businesses in the country, the Nigeria Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) report has revealed that employment in Nigeria decreased marginally as about 98% of companies kept their workforce numbers. The report also …