Category: Business

Tinubu Salutes Abdul Samad Rabiu at 66: A Builder ...

There are businessmen who merely accumulate wealth. Then there are nation-builders who leave behind monuments of industry—factorie...

Government Announces 1-Day Public Holiday, Reason ...

Rwanda has declared Friday, August 7, 2026, a public holiday to mark Umuganura Day, the country’s national harvest festival, a tra...

BREAKING: Dangote, BUA, Other Dealers Announce Fre...

Leading manufacturers, including Dangote Cement and BUA Cement, have adjusted cement prices nationwide, with a bag now selling for...

Sell To 15.7K People Online That You Can't Meet Ph...

The Delivery Problem: Why Exosomes Matter More Tha...

A SpaceX Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon. Nobody...

This wasn't the moonshot Elon Musk was hoping for.

What 30 Years of Building Has Taught Me About Lead...

A founder's guide to evolving from a technical builder to a technical leader.

They Gave an AI Bot a Storefront, 3 Employees and ...

Can AI run a profitable business and oversee human employees? A new experiment put the technology to the test.

The AI Governance Best Practices Every Small Busin...

AI can transform your small business, but without proper governance, it can also create costly compliance risks.

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Their Weight and En...

McCall McPherson turned her own misdiagnosis into a mission and built Modern Thyroid Clinic into a nationwide telehealth network t...

How Spider-Man Brand New Day spun the biggest mark...

The $355 million opening weekend that made Spider-Man: Brand New Day the second-highest domestic debut in box office history did n...

‎Nigerian Breweries records H1 N804bln in revenue,...

Nigerian Breweries Plc, Nigeria’s foremost brewing company, has announced a strong performance for the first half of the 2026 fina...

Disney and TikTok’s new deal signals a deeper shif...

Disney and TikTok have struck a first-of-its-kind partnership that could reshape how fans, creators and traditional media platform...

‎Beyond transactions: Building relationships that ...

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive world, success is no longer defined solely by the number of transactions completed, b...

Playing to Win: Efosa Aigbe urges professionals to...

As businesses navigate the second half of 2026 amid economic reforms, persistent inflation and changing global realities, Business...

Why the F.A.C.T.S. model is the key to search ever...

Learn how to boost visibility across search, social, reputation, and AI using SOCi's F.A.C.T.S. model for multi-location brands. ...

OpenAI ad experiment could change what happens aft...

ChatGPT ads appear to launch business-specific AI agent that answers questions, recommends products, and captures leads. The post...

How to audit your email automations for revenue ga...

Find your email program's weak spots, from deliverability basics to high-value flows and ESP features, and turn missed opportunit...

The future belongs to marketers who make others sm...

Experience isn't losing value because of AI. It's shifting from personal expertise to better decisions, stronger teams, and organ...

Is your intent data being sold to your competitors...

Researchers say software vendors routinely collect customer and business data and incorporate it into commercial products. The po...

Disney Looks to Make Disney+ the ‘Digital Centerpi...

Disney announced a new agreement with TikTok to integrate social clips.

Spider-Man Swings to Box Office Records While Ditc...

Spider-Man: Brand New Day's record-breaking box office came after superpowered social marketing.

Week of July 27 Evening News Ratings: ABC News and...

CBS Evening News had growth in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo.

‘Work in Progress’: Martin Sorrell’s Plan to...

Despite continued falling revenue, S4’s stock popped 26% after reporting H1 earnings

Creators Are Quietly Becoming Media Conglomerates

As ad dollars and capital pour in, top creators are building diversified businesses that increasingly resemble old-media empires.

Adsterra Turns 13: Stay Close To Your Essence – Gr...

Birthdays always make us look back for a second: We celebrate the milestones, remember where we started, and realize just how much...

5 years after NIL began, college coaches still out...

Booster-funded collectives helped athletes like Bo Nix and the Cavinder twins land brand deals, but Trump's executive orders show ...

Is Elon Musk’s master plan with SpaceX to have roc...

SpaceX is targeting government and defense customers who need cargo fast. It will need to figure out where to land.

Iranian hackers and America’s Achilles heel on wat...

The FBI and EPA say attackers accessed internet-connected Rockwell Automation controllers and changed their IP addresses and passw...

Why a friendlier robot loses your trust faster whe...

A new brain-imaging study of the humanoid robot Pepper found that oxytocin spikes during a robot's mistakes track with suspicion, ...

SpaceX created a new class of ultrawealthy. Here’s...

Few public offerings have created so many paper millionaires so quickly. But that was on paper.

Lilypond Customs export value falls 14.4% to $792....

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Lilypond Export Command recorded an export value of $792.56 million in the second quarter of 202...

FG to roll out three digital infrastructure projec...

The Federal Government has announced plans to roll out three major digital infrastructure projects within the next few weeks to tr...

Court dismisses N100 million privacy breach suit a...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a N100 million alleged privacy breach suit instituted against First City Monument Ba...

Banking stocks lift Nigerian market by N70.6 billi...

The Nigerian equities market closed marginally higher on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, adding N70.62 billion in market capitalization...

BREAKING: EFCC breaks silence on freezing Osun Sta...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has broken its silence on why it froze the bank account of the Osun State gove...

Nigeria seeks to capture bigger share of trillion-...

Nigeria is moving to position itself as a manufacturing and investment hub for renewable energy, as officials warn that Africa’s r...

Report: Infantino dangles 2030 World Cup final to ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has reportedly offered Morocco the right to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup final in exchange read mo...

WAFU B U20: Flying Eagles edge Ivory Coast to reac...

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles booked their place in the final of the 2026 WAFU B U20 Championship after defeating hosts Ivory read more ...

How we plan to reawaken the Garden City

A group which says Port Harcourt has been pressed and suppressed for over 10 years has unfolded plans to reawaken read more How we...

Nigerian lady first African to bag ‘Women in Telec...

Obiageli (Obii) Okafor, a Nigerian-born Senior Product Manager at 8×8 and CEO of PMHelp, has been named the ‘Women in read more Ni...

How to Write a Concise Business Plan Using this 7 ...

When you embark on a ‘first-time’ trip, typically you get out a map or you use GPS to ensure that you get to where you want to go ...

Starting a Business Without a Business Degree

People commonly think they need professional skills to manage a business like Amazon with 600,000 employees. Do NOT Over-complicat...

5 Things To Buy To Be Happier, According To Psycho...

Money can’t buy happiness. That’s the line everybody repeats, and the researchers who actually study spending behavior think it’s ...

Warren Buffett Says the Stock Market Has Turned In...

Warren Buffett has spent decades describing the stock market as two very different institutions that happen to share equity assets...

10 Money Mistakes That Quietly Ruin Your Life, Acc...

Charlie Munger, the late vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and longtime business partner to Warren Buffett, spent decades studyi...

Mastering These 10 Mental Skills Leads to Happines...

Happiness gets treated like weather. It shows up, or it doesn’t, and most people assume the difference comes down to circumstances...

5 Ways To Manage Financial Stress, According To Ps...

Doing the math on your finances rarely calms anyone down. Psychology books that deal with anxiety and money start from a different...

Agentic enterprise AI startup Kily raises Rs 30 cr...

Agentic enterprise AI startup Kily has raised Rs 30 crore in a funding round led by Sorin Investments, with participation from fin...

Vaaree raises Rs 65 Crore in funding from Hero Ent...

Bengaluru-based home décor and furnishings marketplace Vaaree has raised Rs 65 crore in a Series A funding round led by Hero Enter...

Former Swiggy, Zomato leaders launch Profound with...

Anuj Rathi and Prashant Parashar, former product and technology executives with experience at Swiggy, Zomato, Cleartrip, Flipkart,...

Legal AI startup NYAI raises $1.5 million in seed ...

Pune-based legaltech startup NYAI has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round led by a group of Indian family offices and stra...

Nitish Mittersain hands over Nazara CEO role to Ra...

Nitish Mittersain, co-founder of Indian gaming company Nazara Technologies, will step down as CEO, with Bluetile Games founder Ray...

Italy’s Biggest Bank Cuts IBIT Exposure by 94% Whi...

Italy's biggest banking group slashed its Bitcoin ETF stake while tripling Ethereum ETF holdings, according to its latest Form 13F...

Ethereum (ETH) Is About to Break a Key Barrier: Go...

There is a growing confidence among analysts that ETH could climb above $2K in the short term.

XRP’s Most Important Level: The Battle for $1.06 B...

53% increase or a 42% collapse: what comes next for XRP?

Bitcoin Holds Key Support as On-Chain Data Shows F...

Recent on-chain data shows roughly 155,000 BTC moved into the $62,000 to $65,000 cost-basis range during the pullback.

AVAX Is Up 7% While the Market Sleeps – These Cata...

The latest rally has pushed AVAX into a major demand zone as Avalanche sees an increase in RWA activity and network developments.

How to Turn What You Know Into AI Tools People Wil...

Wondering how to package your years of hard-won expertise into something clients can use on their own? Curious whether AI could tu...

YouTube on TV: What Marketers Need to Know

Wondering what YouTube's aggressive push into living rooms means for your channel strategy? Want to learn how to make sure your Yo...

How to Grow on Instagram Without Reels

Want to grow on Instagram but dread the idea of filming yourself on camera every day? Wondering if there's a content format that d...

How Open-Weight AI Models Could Save Your Business...

Worried about AI pricing model costs rising out of your budget? Curious whether there's a way to run capable AI models without pay...

How to Build AI Automations With Claude Cowork

Wondering how to start building real automations for your business? Curious what it actually takes to get an AI agent working acro...

Market Leverage, AI Volatility, and the Institutio...

July delivered a powerful reminder that financial markets often move on liquidity and leverage rather than long-term fundamentals....

Trump’s Chinese Robot Ban Divides Silicon Valley a...

The debate over artificial intelligence has expanded beyond software and semiconductors into robotics, placing the United States a...

U.S. Joins Japan In Rare Yen-Buying Intervention A...

The United States has reportedly intervened directly in the foreign exchange market to support the Japanese yen for the first time...

Audi Prioritizes 2027 Formula One Power Unit Over ...

Audi has confirmed that it will not introduce any further upgrades to its Formula One power unit for the remainder of the current ...

Trump Media Launches Premium Truth API, Offering R...

Trump Media & Technology Group has launched a paid data service that provides institutional clients with faster, licensed access t...

Cape Coast Technical University moves to introduce...

The Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) will from the next academic year, introduce a mandatory Artificial Intelligence (AI) a...

Mahama reiterates government’s commitment to expan...

President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated the Government's commitment to expanding the production capability of the state-owne...

ShattaFest UK cancelled over safety issues  

Organisers of ShattaFest UK have cancelled the event following what they described as a serious incident outside the venue that r...

Germany’s alpine huts deploy dogs and microwaves t...

Bedbugs are a nightmare for homes and hotels alike. In Germany's alpine huts, dogs are trained to sniff them out. Guests can help...

The world records 1.2 million new HIV infections i...

New reports released last week at the 26th International AIDS Conference say 1.2 million new HIV infections have been recorded gl...

MUJI opening another NYC location as Downtown Broo...

The 10,000 square-foot store is the latest big name in the booming Downtown Brooklyn corridor astride and adjacent to Flatbush Ave...

AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb ...

The deal could create one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical groups with a combined value of nearly $400 billion.

Ex-‘60 Minutes’ boss Bill Owens wants to launch ri...

Owens has quietly been raising cash for the digital news venture in recent months, sources close to the situation said.

Inside the Rise, Fall, and Evolution of Sears Cata...

In the early 20th century, the 10,000-plus page Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog served as the original all-in-one marketplace—featu...

No More N1,300/Litre: Relief As Petrol Prices Drop...

Petrol depot prices have dropped again across Nigeria’s key distribution hubs, with loading rates falling at several depots in Lag...

JUST IN: CBN Crashes Dollar Prices as New Rate Eme...

The Nigerian naira remained relatively stable at the official foreign exchange market on Monday, trading around ₦1,362 to the US d...

FULL LIST: FG Releases Seven Herbal Medicines for ...

In a major push to advance local pharmaceutical innovation, the Federal Government has unveiled seven herbal medicines developed b...

Colonel Ude: Another Gallant Army Officer Taken Do...

It was another sad day last Monday when the news broke that a serving colonel of the Nigerian Army had been killed while his wife ...

FULL LIST: Meet 19 Presidential Candidates, Runnin...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has displayed the 19 presidential candidates and their running mates ahead of...

46% of Business Owners Are Invisible to AI. Over T...

The company's brand matters, but the owner's visibility is the multiplier — and nearly half of business owners have no presence in...

4 Surprising Ways AI Is Helping Ordinary Businesse...

Turn your expertise into leverage before your competitors do.

How to Track Your Brand’s AI Visiblity in 2026 

With 94% of enterprise executives ramping up AI visibility spending but a third of marketers unsure how to measure it, here's the ...

I Lost a Client I Should Never Have Lost — and It ...

Every article about managing remote teams talks about tools and cadence — but for firms whose product is trust, the real cost is i...

What 9 Years in Business Taught Me: Movement Is th...

After nine years of building a wellness company, I've realized the biggest driver of my team's output isn't a tool, a policy or a ...

‎Stop searching, start chatting: Glovo pioneers AI...

Glovo, a leading multi-category tech company, has announced its integration into the generative AI ecosystem with the launch of it...

Wema Bank records ₦131.37 billion profit in H1 

Wema Bank has delivered one of its strongest half-year performances on record, reporting a profit after tax of ₦131.37 billion for...

‎AAAN flags-off 21st edition of LAIF Awards, unvei...

The Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN), the umbrella body for advertising professionals in Nigeria, has announc...

‎Cardinal Torch set to drive growth, transform Nig...

As developing economies strive to attain a place of reckoning in the global market, ‎Cardinal Torch Company Limited, Nigeria’s lea...

Information minister, Idris to host Advertising In...

The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has named Alhaji Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and National Orient...

AI is building your digital experience. It’s also ...

AI is generating more of the web, and it's carrying the same accessibility gaps with it. Marketing has the leverage to close them...

4 questions to ask before adding AI to an event wo...

MAICON's approach to AI offers a practical framework for deciding which tasks to automate and which should remain human. The post...

AI speeds marketing production, but measurement la...

AI is accelerating marketing production, but most teams still measure clicks instead of business outcomes, limiting their ability...

AI can simulate buyers, but it misses personality

Synthetic audiences depend on the signals they're built from. Personality may be the missing ingredient for improving accuracy. T...

Stagwell Doubles New Business Team as Holdco Compe...

Defying industry-wide layoffs, Penn is focusing on 'the next 1,000 people that we're going to hire.'

How Shark Week Continues to Make a Big Marketing S...

Shark Week has evolved from just programming into a cultural event over the last four decades.

Agentic Marketers: Bayer, Zoom, and More Reveal Th...

Learn how the top marketers from Bayer, Zoom, and a health tech firm have implemented AI over the past month, and what they hope t...

ADWEEK Creativity Advantage: Brands Must Cede Cont...

Brands are embracing a new creative playbook: world building. 

ADWEEK Agencies Advantage: Agencies Must Look Beyo...

Those already investing in areas like influencer and agentic will leapfrog the competition

How to Get Indonesian Web Traffic & Run High-Perfo...

Looking into the growth of the digital advertising market in Indonesia, which is expected to expand even more by 2029, we put…

The APK Website Monetization Case Study: $904,700 ...

An APK website makes money by posting top-class utility and iGaming apps. Before it started earning 6-figure incomes, the site had...

Electric air taxis are finally ready for takeoff

A new breed of aircraft—half-helicopter, half-drone—begin real world tests across the U.S. this summer thanks to a federal program...

To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can ...

Mariana Minerals is now valued at $1.5 billion.

Wall Street shrugs off global slump as Trump promi...

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

Ikea’s AI bot didn’t replace workers. It made them...

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

Current price of oil as of August 3, 2026

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

NAFDAC, OAU join £3.7 million Oxford-led project t...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) have joined a £3.7 ...

Fidson delivers ₦3.6bn dividend, reaffirms path to...

Shareholders of the largest pharmaceutical company in Nigeria, Fidson Healthcare Plc, have approved a dividend of ₦1.50 per 50 kob...

African startups raise $102 million in July as equ...

African startups raised a total of $102 million across 44 funding rounds of $100,000 or more in July 2026, marking the lowest mont...

BREAKING: Otedola grants first-ever interview sinc...

Femi Otedola rarely grants interviews. In this exclusive conversation with Nairametrics, he discusses the biggest bet of his caree...

Wema bank converts tough conditions into n154.6 bi...

Wema Bank's H1 2026 performance highlights a 53.65% pretax profit growth with a 21.73% expansion in customer loans, even as Nigeri...

Anambra targets N75bn IGR as Assembly reviews 2025...

The Anambra State Government is targeting N75 billion in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), up from N47 billion realised in 2025,...

Benue seeks private capital to revive abandoned st...

The Benue Investment and Property Company Limited, BIPC, is seeking private capital to overhaul its moribund industries as it laun...

Weltrade: 20 Years of Excellence and Two Titles Wo...

Looking back at fmas:26, where Weltrade stood out as ‘Best Synthetic Indices Broker’ and ‘Best IB/Affiliate Programme’. Weltrade, ...

FG launches grassroots LPG penetration programme i...

…Targets five million households nationwide by 2030 The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources (G...

2027: Atsar unveils roadmap, vows to end divisive ...

Terver Shirsha Atsar, the 2027 African Democratic Congress (ADC) House of Representatives candidate for Kwande/Ushongo federal con...

What People need to most understand about “Smart W...

Luigi is very smart. He’s the perfect student, always in the top 3% of his class. Soon after Luigi graduates with honors, he start...

Why Should You Risk Starting a Business When Most ...

Tell me something… Do you trust strangers? Isn’t it risky to trust strangers? Well, hold that answer for 5 seconds … Now let me ta...

Are You also Making this Business Mistake?

Today I caught myself again making a BIG mistake … When delegating a job, I found myself telling my manager HOW to do the job inst...

10 Psychology Books That Could Change Your Life

Some books explain the mind from a distance. Others hand you a mirror and walk away. The ten titles below do the second thing. The...

10 Money Books the Working Class Never Reads That ...

Most personal finance advice aimed at the average worker focuses on cutting expenses and clipping coupons. Stretch the paycheck. T...

Warren Buffett Spent His Life Teaching How Busines...

Warren Buffett didn’t build his reputation by picking stocks in a vacuum. He built it by running a company composed of dozens of o...

Warren Buffett’s Rule Number One Is Never Lose Mon...

Warren Buffett has spent more than six decades building one of the greatest investment records in history. He often boils his enti...

The Top 10 Philosophy Books That Everyone Should R...

Philosophy can feel intimidating to approach on your own. A handful of books have earned a reputation as the best entry points int...

Charlie Munger Called It “Worldly Wisdom”: The App...

The late Charlie Munger spent decades building a reputation as one of the sharpest minds in American business. He wasn’t a physici...