Category: Business

Rising business costs drag confidence despite expa...

The cost of doing business in Africa’s most populous economy has risen to 61.6 points in December, thereby dampening business read...

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This Is For Everyone: How To Get Customers To Buy ...

I have seen business owners struggle with their business. Making sales has become so difficult in Nigeria especially for those who...

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'Don't go after money, stay with us you'll get it ...

A workplace remark urging an employee not to “chase money” has sparked sharp debate online, after a post describing the exchange w...

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India's Competition Commission allows Netherlands-...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved Dutch investment firm Prosus’ proposal to acquire an additional equity stak...

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Infosys partners with Cognition to deploy AI softw...

Infosys has entered into a strategic collaboration with US-based AI coding company Cognition to deploy Devin, the AI software engi...

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Indian menstrual hygiene brand Fabpad raises fundi...

Fabpad, an Indian menstrual hygiene brand, has raised an undisclosed amount in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventur...

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Experiential travel startup Capture A Trip secures...

Delhi-based experiential travel brand Capture A Trip (CAT) has secured an investment of Rs 75 lakh from Shark Tank India judges at...

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Crypto Market Structure Bill Close to Passing: Sen...

The Crypto Market Structure Bill, or CLARITY Act, is close to passing, said Senator Lummis, as others predict a huge catalyst for ...

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XRP Sees Surge in $100K+ Transactions: What Does i...

Rising whale activity is unfolding alongside falling exchange balances, pointing to movement rather than distribution by major hol...

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The Highway Analogy: Vitalik Buterin’s Plan to Sca...

Vitalik Buterin argues that working towards increasing Ethereum's bandwidth will offer potentially infinite scalability rather tha...

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Zcash (ZEC) Plunges by Double Digits, Bitcoin (BTC...

PUMP is the other massive loser over the past 24 hours.

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What’s Trapping Bitcoin (BTC) Below $100K? Analyst...

Bitcoin trades below $100K as dealer hedging, resistance zones, and CME gaps keep price range-bound ahead of key January option ex...

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What’s Working With Short-Form Video Right Now

Short-form video gets a lot of views, but does it actually grow your business? Are you tired of producing vanilla content that fai...

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Japanese Government Bond Yields Reached ATH

Japan’s 30-year Japanese Government Bond (JGB) yield reached a new all-time high (ATH) during trading, hitting an intraday peak of...

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Instant Digital Payments Reset Consumer Expectatio...

Real?time payment networks are reshaping how money moves across emerging markets, with Africa now one of the fastest?evolving regi...

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Morgan Stanley Files Form S-1 with U.S. SEC for Mo...

Morgan Stanley filed a registration statement (Form S-1) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 7, 2026...

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Implications of Nike Quietly Selling RTFKT NFT Bra...

Nike quietly sold its NFT and digital products subsidiary RTFKT acquired in 2021 during the NFT boom in December 2025, with the de...

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Love in 2026: Why Transparency and Values on Japan...

Why Transparency and Values on Japansdates Matter More Than Ever Dating in 2026 may look very different from what it was just a fe...

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Health officials worry about continued increase in...

Health authorities in the Ashanti Region have expressed worry about the continuous increase in HIV infections among residents, de...

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Fugitive former Ghana Minister of Finance, Ofori-A...

The fugitive former Minister of Finance of Ghana has been arrested and is being held in detention by the United States Immigratio...

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Price pressures ease, Ghana inflation drops to 5.4...

Ghana’s headline inflation declined to 5.4 per cent in December 2025, the lowest rate since the Consumer Price Index was rebased ...

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Ken Ofori-Atta: His visa issues, permanent residen...

Ken Ofori-Atta the former Minister of Finance of Ghana is running away from justice. He is wanted in Ghana by the Office of the S...

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Bolgatanga Airport construction expected to begin ...

All things being equal, the construction of the Bolgatanga Airport will commence by the middle of 2026, Mrs Yvonne Nana Afriyie O...

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Tony Dokoupil give CBS News a ratings boost despit...

Dokoupil reeled in 4.5 million total viewers as he made his "Evening News" debut on Monday, according to Nielsen figures.

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Montero Bar & Grill to get new life as it marks 90...

Montero Bar & Grill at 73 Atlantic Ave. has been sold to Crew hospitality group, which operates 10 Big Apple venues with a total o...

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[BREAKING] Crisis Deepens: PDP Heavyweights Consid...

Several prominent figures of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are currently in discussions to join the African Democratic Congr...

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DEADLINE: CBN Set To Ban 103 Loan Apps; Details Em...

No fewer than 521 digital lending companies have now fallen under the regulatory oversight of the Federal Competition and Consumer...

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BREAKING: Kwankwaso Drops Bombshell About APC, Iss...

Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement and former governor of Kano state, has delivered a stinging warn...

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Manage Stress and Mental Focus With This Meditatio...

A structured approach to relaxation and clarity for entrepreneurs and professionals.

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Brewery of the Year: Another Big Step for a Major ...

And your invitation to share in what comes next as an early-stage investor.

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AI Can Clone Your Company in 48 Hours — But Here's...

Everything can be duplicated in 48 hours — but some businesses are finding ways to survive the copycat economy.

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How I Won Over Investors and Raised $1.5 Million W...

I didn't have a co-founder, prior exits or a deep-pocketed network. I still raised a $1.5 million seed round. Here's how I positio...

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AI Doesn't Have to Be Expensive. Here Are 8 Smart ...

Practical guidance for small and mid-sized businesses to adopt AI affordably, improve efficiency, reduce cloud waste and achieve m...

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Advertising icon John Dooner, McCann Worldgroup fo...

The advertising world is mourning the loss of John J. Dooner Jr., the visionary founder of McCann Worldgroup, who passed away peac...

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ADVAN mourns loss of MARKETING EDGE Publisher

The Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN) has expressed deep sorrow over the death of the Publisher of MARKETING EDGE, Mr. Jo...

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Dolapo Ogunbambo launches AIKIDO agency with bold ...

After over two decades shaping Nigeria’s advertising landscape, Dolapo Ogunbambo has embarked on an entrepreneurial journey. He mo...

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Dufil Prima Foods reinforces commitment to Care wi...

Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie, has reinforced its commitment to care and inclusion. Specifically, the company launched ...

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AB InBev bets $3 billion on control as aluminium c...

Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced plans to repurchase a 49.9% minority stake in its U.S. metal packaging business for approximate...

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7 tips for building a B2B social presence that act...

Social isn’t a dumping ground for webinars and white papers. Here’s how B2B brands should rethink how they show up. The post 7 ti...

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Email marketing is becoming an agent-to-agent syst...

Email is an AI-mediated channel where agents decide what gets seen or acted on, forcing marketers to rethink how they design and ...

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Registration is open for the March 2026 MarTech Co...

MarTech March is online and free to attend, with six live panel discussions and a new community feature called the Vibe Marketing...

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The rise of vibe marketing and what it means for m...

Vibe marketing is using AI and no-code tools to turn plain-English ideas into live campaigns faster than traditional teams and st...

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Streaming Ratings, Week of Dec. 1: Stranger Things...

Paramount+’s Landman was the only non-Netflix title with more than a billion viewing minutes.

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The Trade Desk’s Jeff Green Says 2026 Will Be &#82...

Even as AI search reshapes search traffic, Green says premium open-web inventory stands to benefit.

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This Is the Cable News Ratings Report for 2025

MS NOW and CNN experienced across-the-board declines.

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Food52, $25 Million in Debt, Just Declared Bankrup...

America’s Test Kitchen has offered $6.5 million for the company, which was valued at more than $300 million in 2021

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From AI to Measurement: Disney’s Biggest Adt...

Disney reveals vertical video for Disney+ and a new measurement metric.

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Trump threatens to ban Wall Street from buying the...

Trump has not yet released draft legislation or an executive order, but officials and outside analysts say the administration is e...

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These are the 10 most on-time airlines in the worl...

The only U.S. airline on Cirium’s top 10 list came in last place.

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AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporat...

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress ...

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The U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela has cost $700...

Trump is urging U.S. oil companies to return to Venezuela but question marks remain with instability, high costs, and weak oil pri...

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More Americans will die than be born in 2030, CBO ...

Deportations shrank this timeline by a decade, putting unprecedented pressure on Social Security.

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Kian Smith list over N21 Billion worth of Gold Bar...

Kian Smith FZE is set to list and trade over 21 Billion Naira worth of 1kg LBMA Gold bars on the floor of Lagos Commodities and Fu...

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Cardinal Stone projects stronger Naira at N1,350–N...

The naira could strengthen to between N1,350 and N1,450 per dollar in 2026, driven by improving macroeconomic fundamentals and a m...

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Loan apps: 521 companies now on FCCPC’s radar as J...

A total of 521 digital lender companies have now come under the regulatory purview of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protect...

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US introduces $15,000 visa bond for Nigerians, oth...

The United States has introduced new travel restrictions that will require Nigerians applying for B1/B2 (business and tourism) vis...

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Nigeria’s External Account set for $17.7 billion s...

Nigeria’s external position is on track for significant growth in 2026, with analysts projecting a $17.7 billion current account s...

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Court nullifies NNPP’s dissolution of party struct...

The internal crisis rocking the Kwankwasiyya faction of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) took a new turn on Tuesday read more ...

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The new wars ahead

It is not news anymore that Gov Sim Fubara and Nyesom Wike, his erstwhile godfather, have returned to the trenches, read more The ...

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Shekarau defends Governor Yusuf, says defection no...

Ibrahim Shekarau, former Kano State Governor, says it would not amount to betrayal if Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf defects from read ...

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Traditional banks trail as fintechs set new custom...

Nigeria’s fintech disruptors are redefining customer expectations in banking, leaving traditional institutions struggling to keep ...

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Mega-deals propel African startup funding to $3.2b...

…Energy, fintech lead charge A dramatic rise in mega-funding rounds powered African startups to raise $3.2 billion in 2025, delive...

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Business Lessons from the S T A R T U P Movie

When you’re starting out a business with the ideas and everything but got no money what do you do?? . Ok, so I got to see this mov...

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15 Business Etiquettes You Should Know

“A man without a smiling face must never open a shop”, so the Chinese proverb goes. Truly, smiling goes a long way to lighting up ...

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Wondering Why Your Business Growth is Retarding?

Wondering why business is slumping? Why new customers are hard to come by? Why it seems to take longer to get momentum on growth a...

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How to Get Your Prospects to Open, Read & Respond ...

Want to get your emails read and returned? Who doesn’t… Many of us would settle for just getting our emails read! Let’s face it: p...

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Bank manager rejects leave request; tells 'Put you...

A senior employee at a large Indian private bank resigned after her manager rejected her request for a few days of leave to care f...

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'I stand with Deepinder. I worked as a Zomato deli...

Assessli founder and CEO Suraj Biswas has publicly backed Deepinder Goyal and Zomato, saying his own experience as a delivery part...

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Amazon Pay rolls out fixed deposits starting Rs 1,...

Amazon India's payments arm Amazon Pay has rolled out a fixed deposit (FD) offering across India, marking its latest move to deepe...

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Singularity AMC invests in Lohia family-founded Lo...

Singularity AMC, a growth-equity investment platform backed by Madhusudan Kela and led by Yash Kela, said it has invested in Lohia...

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EV charging technology startup RoadGrid raises Rs ...

EV charging technology startup RoadGrid has raised Rs 12 crore in a pre-Series A funding round led by early-stage investor Venture...

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QIE Blockchain Announces Validator Opportunities A...

[PRESS RELEASE – Cape Town, South Africa, January 6th, 2026] QIE Blockchain has announced the opening of its validator program to ...

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Coinhub Exchange Brings a Bank-Like Crypto Experie...

[PRESS RELEASE – Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 6th, 2026] Coinhub Exchange, a modern online crypto exchange, announced the grand ope...

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$15B in Forced Selling Off The Table as MSCI Keeps...

Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) has decided not to exclude digital asset treasury companies (DATs) from its market ind...

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Top Ethereum (ETH) Price Predictions for 2026

Can ETH reach a new ATH this year?

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Ripple’s XRP Rejected at $2.40, Bitcoin (BTC) Vola...

RAIN is today's top gainer, followed by M and HYPE.

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U.S. Oil Stocks Jump as Trump’s Venezuela Interven...

Shares of major U.S. oil companies surged in premarket trading on Monday as investors began to price in the potential long-term co...

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Bitcoin Rallies to $94,000 as Whale Accumulation F...

Bitcoin surged past the $94,000 mark over the past 24 hours, reigniting investor confidence and strengthening hopes that the broad...

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Wants Everyone to Stop...

Satya Nadella chose his moment carefully. Just weeks after Merriam-Webster crowned “slop” its word of the year — a shorthand for t...

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MiniMax IPO Caps Breakout Moment for China’s AI Se...

MiniMax Group’s plan to price its Hong Kong initial public offering at the top end of its marketing range is fast becoming a defin...

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Nigeria’s Next Vital Journey: From Money to Capita...

Nigeria is operating far below its productive potential. If the country were anywhere near optimal efficiency, its GDP should be c...

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Office of Stool Lands to establish 300 new Customa...

The Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands, as part of its 2026 plans, will facilitate the establishment of 300 new Customary...

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Merz warns of ‘very critical’ situation in parts o...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has placed boosting the country's economy at the top of his agenda for 2026, warning that measur...

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Chonke overlord warns GTEC to transfer DACE Princi...

Dasebre Attamafowiese Kwame Bonja III, the overlord of Chonke traditional area has issued a stern warning to the Ghana Tertiary E...

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Court remands traders over attempted murder  

An Adabraka District Court has remanded two traders for allegedly attempting to murder a colleague by stabbing him during an atta...

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Ghana government sets aside GH¢500m for Teachers’ ...

The government has allocated GH¢500 million in the 2026 budget for the commencement of the Teachers’ Housing Scheme, also known a...

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Trump floats reimbursing US oil companies to rebui...

Trump told NBC News that he thinks American firms could get Venezuela’s oil fields “up and running” within 18 months.

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Berkshire Hathaway hikes salary of CEO Greg Abel,...

Buffett, 95, stepped down from Berkshire at the end of December after more than 60 years at Berkshire.

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Versant stock’s flop debut has Paramount Skydance ...

Some investors are beginning to worry that the same industry pressures leading to Versant’s trading woes will plague the value of ...

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America needs speedy AI manufacturing to prevent g...

Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer of Palantir, highlighted the software company's recent work with the Navy and shipbuilding.

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JUST IN: First Sitting Governor Set To Join ADC 

The governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed is reportedly in the final stages of transitioning from the Peoples Democratic Party (...

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Lookman: ‘Osimhen Too Arrogant, Nigeria is Not Nap...

Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen is under serious attack by Nigeria fans and football administrator over his angry clash with A...

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BREAKING: Labour Party Loses House Of Reps Member ...

The House of Representatives member representing Egor/Ikpoba Okha Federal Constituency of Edo State, Mr Murphy Osaro Omoruyi, on T...

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BREAKING: Court Issues Fresh Ruling On Malami, Wif...

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has admitted former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister o...

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[JUST IN] Details Of Goodluck Jonathan Closed-Door...

[JUST IN] Details Of Goodluck Jonathan Closed-Door Meeting With PDP Leaders Emerge -CHECK COMMENT SECTION FOR DETAILS The Peoples ...

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Americans Are Ditching Pizza for Mexican Food — He...

Major chains are closing locations as the once-dominant pies fall to sixth place in restaurant sales.

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A New Kind of Security Risk Is Emerging. Take Thes...

As connected products blur the line between digital vulnerabilities and physical safety, manufacturers must make a fundamental par...

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This CEO Found a Way to Stop $30 Billion of Hydrog...

Big oil has a billion-dollar problem that one company is solving.

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This Is What the New Lego Smart Brick Can Do — Its...

Lego says the new brick will "make entire sets come to life" starting with Star Wars in March.

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International Public Relations Network (IPRN) anno...

The International Public Relations Network (IPRN), a global alliance of independently owned communications and public relations ag...

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FirstHoldCo announces FirstBank has met ₦500 billi...

Shareholders Commit to Future Injection of More Capital to the Group’s Other Subsidiaries FirstBank Meets CBN Capital Threshold Fi...

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Sir Steve Omojafor at 80, the industry still bears...

At 80, Sir Steve Omojafor still stands where Nigeria’s Advertising story begins. Indeed, eighty years is a long walk through time....

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What privacy and email laws reveal about today’s c...

From CAN-SPAM to state privacy statutes, federal preemption has been inconsistent. Playing it safe in a patchwork system matters ...

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Your AI is not helping if it makes me do the work

Execution that actually ships still happens manually. That gap between intent and outcome is why AI in martech keeps adding work....

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B2B marketing on TikTok: What you need to know

TikTok is a vital tool for B2B marketers to connect with their customers. Updated with details on TikTok's new US-based ownership...

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4 trends marketers must follow in 2026

Marketers head into 2026 navigating AI’s next phase, looming tech change and an inbox that’s quietly evolving — with cautious opt...

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IAB releases agentic AI roadmap for digital advert...

The roadmap shows how digital advertising can scale AI-driven execution with existing standards rather than rebuilding the ecosys...

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Pinterest Shoppable CTV Series Turns Pins Into Pur...

The six-episode series will feature brand integrations with advertisers, including Wayfair, eos, and Michaels.

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Big Tech’s AI Spending Spree Is About to Get Awkwa...

Superintelligence isn’t cheap. Tech giants are learning that AI’s promise comes with a physical, financial, and operational reckon...

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NBCU Breaks Winter Olympic Ad Sales Record With Se...

NBCUniversal scores huge Olympics ad sales and brings on more advertisers than ever.

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Beko Europe’s Marco Brucato on Scaling Ecomm...

Plus, what it takes to make transformation stick inside large organizations.

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Access Granted: How Amex Is Crafting the New Premi...

Global advertising EVP Jessica Ling on building a modern membership offering.

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Shark Tank’s ‘Mr. Wonderful’ Kevin O’Leary learned...

Director Josh Safdie personally sought out O’Leary for the part of ruthless businessman Milton Rockwell, but he showed him who was...

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Trump: Venezuela to sell 30m-50m barrels of ‘high ...

Separately, the White House is organizing an Oval Office meeting with oil company executives, a person familiar with the matter sa...

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To ease recruiters’ fears of being replaced by AI,...

"About 80% of our jobs were what you would hear in the conferences about the mundane tasks” that AI could replace, said Zillow’s V...

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How JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon notched $770 million ...

Dimon has accumulated a lot of equity through his compensation plan, personal purchases, and via a 2021 special award.

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Venezuela’s new president steered $500,000 to Trum...

A lawyer educated in Britain and France, Delcy Rodríguez speaks English and spent large amounts of time in the United States.

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This is for Everyone: Why Fighting For Attention W...

Visibility is the intention to be profitable. Most business owners, including you, yes, you. Are fighting to get people's attentio...

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It Is Not Enough To Be Seen By People! Take This D...

Know this: when a business stop getting customers, it starts dying. That is the truth. The purpose of every business is to create ...

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Ade Adefeko resigns as honorary consul of Botswana...

The High Commission of the Republic of Botswana in Nigeria has announced the resignation of Mr. Ade Adefeko as Honorary Consul in ...

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Over 93% of Nigeria’s cash stayed outside banks in...

Nigeria’s cash economy remained dominant in 2025, as the bulk of currency in circulation continued to sit outside the formal banki...

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Challenges with Turning your small business into a...

Starting out small in business doesn’t mean you must remain small for the rest of your life. When entrepreneurs make endeavors, th...

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Cars24 acquires vehicle information platform CarIn...

Used-car marketplace Cars24 has acquired Delhi-based vehicle information and management platform CarInfo, marking its second acqui...

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JINDOGE (JINDO) Unveils a Solana-Based Meme Projec...

[PRESS RELEASE – Hong Kong, China, January 6th, 2026] JINDOGE (JINDO), a Solana-based meme project, has been officially unveiled a...

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Human-First AI Adoption: Getting Your People Ready...

Do you feel like your investment in AI tools isn't yielding the organizational productivity gains you expected? Are you struggling...

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I Built a Business in a New Country. These 5 Lesso...

When you start connecting, lead with what makes you different and stop undervaluing yourself, you turn being a newcomer into your ...

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Ex-Meta AI Chief Slams New Boss as 'Young' and 'In...

Yann LeCun warns Meta's 29-year-old AI officer will trigger staff exodus and says LLMs are a 'dead end' for superintelligence.

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