Ngige Confronts JOHESU Leader over Media Reports

By Bliss Okperan The Bill Gates Foundation has selected nine Nigerian health startups, along with 20 others from other parts of Africa, for a $50,000 equity-free grant to boost the healthcare supply chain on the continent. The nine Nigerian small firms were chosen as part of Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative for startups in the healthcare supply chain. The Nigerian companies which make up the second cohort include Famasi, Aimcare, Afia, Drugstore Nigeria, Healthtracka, Octosoft Technologies Limited, Pharmarun, Pharmaserv Health Project Nigeria Ltd, and Wella Health. The cohort includes startups that are building online pharmacies and telemedicine

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Lagos State House of Assembly has called for the immediate arrest of a doctor who performed surgery on a boy, Adebola Akin-Bright, whose intestines went missing in the process of going under the knife. At the plenary on Tuesday, the parliament urged the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to provide funds for the treatment of the boy outside the country. It was alleged that the 12-year-old Adebola underwent surgery at a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre, in the Alimosho area of the state. He is currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) receiving

By Aduragbemi Omiyale From February 2024, a leading pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventi Nigeria Limited, will put a stop to its direct operations in the country, opting to hand over this business to a yet-to-be-named third party. In a statement signed by the Country Lead for Sanofi, Ms Folake Odediran, it was noted that this new business model was adopted for the “commercialisation of Sanofi portfolio of medicines” through a major distributor. This business model is also to be adopted by another player in the sector, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Nigeria Plc, which announced its planned exit from the Nigerian market a few months

By Adedapo Adesanya For Helen Eyo, hospitality has been entrenched in her from a young age. For the last child in a family of six, taking care of others came naturally just as her acumen for business. It was this that laid a foundation for her to establish Elen Homes, a shortlets company in Lagos with a vision to provide affordable housing to meet the surging demand. Raised by hardworking parents with her father, a logistic consultant and a mother who is a fashion designer, Helen was taught to never limit herself to what existed in the periphery and she

Many companies have asked for employees to come back to work, whether it be full-time, flexitime or on a hybrid model. And as everyone starts trickling into the office, it can be difficult to switch back to the pre-pandemic harmony that may have existed in your place of work. For the most part, we’ve grown used to working in our own space, on our own. To now have to share space with people who are not in our bubble, can be daunting for many. And while working in close proximity to others could potentially breed germs, it could also breed

By Dipo Olowookere Italian football outfit, Napoli, have announced the departure of Carlo Ancelotti from the club, less than three hours after he guided them to the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League. Napoli played Genk FC in Italy last night and defeated the Belgian side 4-0. But despite the win, the club has asked the former AC Milan coach to go. Ancelotti had been having issues at the club lately, which have made him to lose control of the dressing room just as he experienced when he was the manager of a top German outfit, Bayern Munich. His

By Dipo Olowookere According to a Statistics South Africa report based on the last census, over 2.8 million people suffer from some form of disability in South Africa alone and around 600,000 are listed as severely disabled. This highlights the urgent need to empower disabled people and bring them into the mainstream of education and work so that they can continue to contribute to society, in line with the goals of President Jacob Zuma’s Presidential Working Group on Disability. An initiative called #OperationRehab has offered to help disabled persons in Africa by offering them free treatment in India. #OperationRehab is

By Dipo Olowookere A foremost local energy company, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, has taken a huge step to strengthen its board of directors with the appointment of the director-general of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2010 to 2015, Ms Arunma Oteh. A statement issued by the company stated that Ms Oteh joins the board as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from October 1, 2020. She was appointed to the board alongside Mr Xavier Rolet in the same capacity. According to the Chairman of Seplat, Mr Bryant Orjiako, the appointment of the two “distinguished

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A new player has joined the bakery business in Lagos with the launch of Bakersfield Pastries by an Information Technology (IT) expert, Mr Abidemi Adeyi. The tech enthusiast, popularly known as Abi, has set up his new business in the Opebi area of the aquatic city. The one-of-a-kind pastry restaurant offers a unique range of custom-made pizzas and sandwiches. It also has an unbeatable range of menus for a pastry outfit, with over 10 categories of menus with great taste and nutritional value, diligently curated for customers’ delight. Mr Adeyi has promised his customers quality products, which

By Dipo Olowookere When on Sunday, March 29, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari in a nationwide broadcast said Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State would be on lockdown for two weeks from the next day, many thought this restriction of movement would just be only for the 14 days. Some residents of these three places who had not witnessed such before, quickly adjusted to the new forced life caused by the deadly coronavirus disease, which has claimed over 120,000 lives across the world. Data obtained by Business Post on Wednesday morning from John Hopkins University and Medicine in the United States indicated

By Modupe Gbadeyanka One of the leading financial institutions in Africa, Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, is planning to introduce a feature aimed to unify customer experience on its mobile app. The Single Sign-on authentication feature will allow customers to access all their active profiles across the group. It is an innovative capability from the end-to-end financial services institution. It was birthed to simplify customers’ access to the Stanbic IBTC Mobile App, also known as the Super App. It enables customers to use single login credentials to access multiple services operated across the group on its Super App. In an announcement,