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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J LIFE Progress Booster, the entrepreneurial radio show that supports upcoming businesses in South-East Nigeria, sponsored by Life Continental Lager Beer has announced plans to support 200 entrepreneurs with N300, 000 each, up from the N250, 000 it gave to individual entrepreneurs in 2016. Josiah Akinola, Assistant Brand Manager, Regional Mainstream Brands, Nigeria Breweries Plc, made the announcement in Aba where its first set of 30 beneficiaries received N300,000 each to support their businesses. He said that the Life Progress Booster Show is aimed at nurturing and encouraging entrepreneurs from the South-east, while also creating a platform for budding businessmen and women to present their proposals and transform their ideas to realities. “The Progress Booster Show was initiated to raise more entrepreneurs and self-dependent individuals in South-east Nigeria. The average Igbo man is business inclined, and the region is known as an excellent environment fo...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA- Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has ordered immediate expansion of Social Investment Programmes, SIPs of the federal government to accommodate more Nigerians. Osinbajo gave the directive when he received the SIP update report recently. He also expressed satisfaction with the level of progress so far made under the programmes. With the development, over one million Nigerians are to benefit from the programme. Also, no less than 25 million meals have been served under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, (SIP). These were contained in a statement signed by Mr. Laolu Akande, the spokesman of the Acting President in Abuja in Tuesday. According to the statement, the administration had as at the end of last month (April 2017) spent a total N41,714,793,293 across all the 36 States and Federal Capital Territory, FCT, implementing different aspects of the four Social Investment Programmes. A breakdown of the total number of ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Aiteo Group announces the appointment of Mr. Ratko M. Knezevic to its Global Executive Management team as Group Advisor on Business and Capital Development with effect from 5 May 2017. Mr Knezevic will lead Aiteo’s funds raising activities from global capital markets with the primary objective of reinforcing the Group’s growth and diversification targets in Nigeria and across Africa as a whole. Ratko brings to this role vast experience and expertise acquired through proven track record of direct operational leadership, strategy development, team building, financial and relationship management. He has achieved this immense depth of capability from more than 20 years of top flight experience in international business, investment banking, world political affairs, and international government relations through, amongst many roles, previous roles as Vice Chairman of Macquarie Capital EMEA and senior advisory roles with some of the biggest blue chip companies in the w...