Despite the significance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to the economy and national development, Africa has a high rate of business failures and short-lived businesses. In Nigeria SMEs account for 48 percent of the national GDP, 96 percent...
August 22, (THEWILL) - ARTSPLIT, the pioneering art trading platform for African art, closed its split and lease online auction MOCONA - a Modern and Contemporary African Arts, Auction on Sunday, 31st of July, with a closing event and...
August 22, (THEWILL) - “When a book leaves its author’s desk,” Sir Salman Rushdie once said, “it changes.” It would turn out to be exactly so following publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988. Never in the history of modern...
As the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government enters the last lap of its tenure, Nigeria’s public sector space is getting saturated with issues ranging from the absurd to the ridiculous. The raging controversy between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...
When the 47th edition of the Toronto Film Festival begins on September 8 in Canada, a film adaptation of a Nigerian play will be screened for audiences made up of actors, directors, producers, cinematographers, screen writers and sundry professionals...
August 15, (THEWILL) - Globacom turns 19 on August 29. THEWILL considers the rise and rise of the only indigenous company in the telecoms sector in Nigeria. Michael Jimoh reports…
It boggles the mind when you consider how much this...
The recent disclosure at Abuja by no less a person than the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, that the Federal Government spent N1.93 trillion on debt servicing, which was about 20 per cent higher...
Because high liquidity and volatility of the foreign exchange market, Nigerian traders need rapid access to market news, useful information as well as trading platforms.
Subsequently, Nigerian traders' use of mobile trading applications has skyrocketed. Currency traders who are actively...
July 31, (THEWILL) – One Monday morning, a 76-year-old, Mallam Yahaya Ado, a community head of Kaura-mata, stood at the eroded bank of Challawa River with his subjects, gesturing as he spoke about the challenge of environmental degradation facing...
July 31, (THEWILL) – They were stolen in time of war. They were returned in time of peace. But 125 years after the British looted hundreds of Benin artefacts in 1897, finding an ideal home for them from whence...