BUILDING AFRICA’S NEXT GENERATION OF GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPANIES FROM NIGERIA
Nigeria has the talent, enterprise, and ambition to build companies that can compete anywhere in the world. Our responsibility as a government is to ensure that Nigerians do not have to leave Nigeria or rely on other jurisdictions to realise that potential.
For too long, some of our most promising young entrepreneurs have felt compelled to establish their companies and intellectual property abroad to access global capital and markets. I do not accept that this must remain the case.
I want the next generation of African technology, finance and service companies to be built, headquartered and scaled to the world from Nigerian soil.
@ayatse_fanen …and the understanding…for those who are lucky to experience it…that you will never come close to matching the overwhelming and utterly rewarding feeling.
You expect us to enter the jungle, find a lion, dress him in our kit, sit him down and ask him to pose? Then find an antelope, kit it in Rangers colours and tell both animals to freeze for a photoshoot?
You people have wild imagination. What do you think AI is for?
Honourable Isa Ali Pantami acquired most of his properties in Abuja during his time as DG of NITDA and after he became a minister.
What exactly makes you think we don’t have the right to ask questions about the source of that wealth?
Being a scholar doesn’t make anyone above scrutiny or accountability.
You can be a scholar and still be corrupt. Religious knowledge does not automatically make a person incapable of corruption.
Team Nigeria finished seventh at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games with 24 medals — 10 gold, seven silver and seven bronze.
Nigeria also emerged as Africa’s highest-ranked nation. 🇳🇬
I am deeply disturbed to learn of the shots fired at the Rahma Islamic Centre in Winnipeg last night. This violent act of Islamophobia is appalling and has no place in Canada.
I’m grateful no one was injured. Law enforcement has my full support as they work to bring the perpetrators to justice.
ExxonMobil is returning to drilling in Nigeria🇳🇬 for the first time since 2016 with a $1 billion deepwater investment.
The Usan Infill Project is expected to add 40,000 barrels of oil per day within 18 months.
The investment signals renewed confidence in Nigeria’s offshore sector following recent regulatory reforms.
It forms part of Abuja’s broader strategy to revive crude production and attract new upstream capital.
Nigeria’s revenue surged 49% in the first five months of the year, exceeding government projections as an overhaul of the tax system and new levies on industries including petroleum and mining boosted collections. https://t.co/c0II3HRuJL
Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!
Nigeria is expanding naval shipbuilding in Lagos to reduce reliance on foreign vessels and strengthen maritime security. The navy is locally producing and maintaining patrol boats used against piracy, oil theft, and smuggling.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports.