Nigeria's 3MTT programme has announced winners of its inaugural National Impact Challenge, spotlighting digital fellows solving real-world problems across all 36 states.

BUA Group founder Abdul Samad Rabiu urged young African leaders at the Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town to build Africa's greatness intentionally.

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Aliko Dangote has offered to build a refinery in Tanzania matching his 650,000-barrel-per-day Lagos plant, with Kenya and Uganda already in talks on the project.

Femi Otedola's FirstHoldCo has surged 32 percent in a month to leave GTCO, Zenith, Access and UBA behind as Nigeria's best-performing tier-one bank stock.

Bank of Industry and RMRDC have signed a memorandum of understanding to add value to Nigerian raw materials and keep more wealth inside the economy.

FirstBank has signed on as a sponsor of Global Trade Review West Africa 2026, a two-day Lagos conference pulling together 450 delegates from 15 countries.

Nigeria exported 55.39 million barrels in the first two months of 2026 as the Dangote refinery scrambled for feedstock and leaned on imported crude.

Cosmas Maduka, founder and president of Coscharis Group, is deepening his partnership with Chinese bus manufacturer Asia Star following the delivery of 20 Coscharis electric buses to the Abia State government, the first batch of a broader rollout targeting public transport in southeastern Nigeria.

Segun Ogunsanya, former group chief executive of Airtel Africa, has launched CycleFlow, an IFC-backed supply chain finance platform targeting $25 billion to $30 billion in annual financing for Nigeria's micro, small and medium enterprises.

Aliko Dangote has appointed three financial advisers to lead a pan-African initial public offering of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Fze, targeting listings across multiple African exchanges in what analysts project will become the largest equity offering in African stock exchange history.

Taiwo Afolabi, the Nigerian billionaire who chairs SIFAX Group, appointed his son Damilola Afolabi, known professionally as LAX, as executive director of SIFAX Logistics on April 10, the same day the Afrobeats singer turned 33.