Lars Richter, Julius Berger CEO, receives global best practice award
Businessam Staff
December 4, 2019
The Nigerian Business Coalition Against Aids, NiBUCAA has presented Lars Richter, the managing director of Julius Berger Nigeria plc, with the organisation’s prestigious Award of “Global Best Practice in the fight against HIV/AIDS”. NiBUCAA said the award was in recognition of Richter’s outstanding commitment towards corporate Global Best Practice for sustenance of the environment and […]
Aiteo CEO, Peters, joins board of US-Africa Business Centre
Businessam StaffSeptember 25, 2019
Benedict Peters, the chairman and chief executive officer of Nigeria’s global energy company, Aiteo Group, has been appointed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to serve on the board of advisors for the U.S.-Africa Business Center, according to a statement made available to business a.m. Peters will join CEOs from many Fortune 500 companies who […]
SIFAX Group appoints Olusinde executive director, legal services
Businessam StaffSeptember 12, 2019
By Samson Echenim SIFAX Group, one of Africa’s fastest growing multinational corporations with diverse interests in maritime, aviation, haulage & logistics, oil & gas and hospitality, has appointed Olutunji Olusinde as the new executive director, Legal Services and Company Secretary. Until his appointment, Olusinde, who joined the company in 2006 as the head, Legal/Claims, served […]
Meet American born Nigerian, Ini Archibong, Hermés latest watch designer
Businessam StaffAugust 25, 2019
Ini Archibong strikes you immediately as a man who is firing on all cylinders. At only 35, his design CV would be the envy of someone in the game for a decade or longer. Having wound his own path through architecture, furniture and design, this week sees him unveil La Galop, his first watch for […]
Nigerian becomes first African member of World Trade Board
Businessam StaffAugust 15, 2019
Adesegun Akin-Olugbade, a doctor, and an international legal and finance expert, has been appointed as a member of the World Trade Board, coming in as the first African member of the organisation. The Nigerian joins 20 other global trade and finance leaders on the board, said a statement from the Board. The World Trade Board […]
Tuface Idibia to help NSE drive SDG’s in Nigeria
Adesola AfolabiAugust 6, 2019
Innocent Ujah Idibia popularly known as Tuface or 2Baba will help the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) push forward, its advocacy for sustainability. This was disclosed by the NSE, following an unveiling ceremony held Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at the Stock Exchange in Lagos. The NSE announced that the internationally renowned award-winning artist, has been appointed […]
Employees in Lagos are stressed, burned out and exhausted because of ‘hellish traffic’
Businessam StaffAugust 4, 2019
Lagos traffic is so snarled and gridlocked that a recent trip from the airport to Ajah, on Lagos Island — a journey shorter than 50 kilometers — took me eight hours. That was two hours longer than my flight from Istanbul to Nigeria. Welcome to traffic and travel Lagos-style, where the roads are clogged and […]
Touching story of how poor Nigerian airport cab driver returned $2, 400 found in car
Samson EchenimAugust 1, 2019
By Samson Echenim A cab driver at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos has narrated how he found a sum of $2,400 (about N888,000) in his car and returned same to the owner. Adeniyi Olayinka, a member of the Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, said the […]
NNPC’s new era begins as Kyari mount saddle as CEO
Moses ObajemuJuly 10, 2019
It is a new dawn in the annals of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation as Mele Kolo Kyari, who was recently appointed by President Mohammadu Buhari as the corporation’s new group managing director, assumes the mantle of leadership of the state-owned oil company. He took over from Maikanti Bello who was in the saddle for […]
Oforiokuma, ARM-Harith CEO, former LCC chief, joins Africa50
Ben EguzozieJuly 9, 2019
Opuiyo Oforiokuma, a Nigerian born British national and an infrastructure specialist and former chief executive officer of Lekki Concession Company (LCC), has been appointed to head strategy and investor relations at the Africa50, a pan-African infrastructure investment platform capitalized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), 27 African countries, and two African central banks. According to […]