Fresh from Nnamdi Azikwe University, Nsukka, Ikenna Okeke, does not intend to seek employment anywhere with his degree. The soft-spoken young entrepreneur had one dream since his days as an undergraduate: to own a one-stop-shop for phone accessories in Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos. Having completed his National Youth Service Corps programme on May 1, 2017, […]
The Vice-President of Amalgamated Market Traders of Anambra State (AMATAS), Chief Gozie Akudolu, said with the massive support enjoyed by Governor Willie Obiano in this campaign is a clear sign that he would be victorious at the November 18, 2017 governorship election. Akudolu said the broad based support enjoyed by Governor Obiano was based on […]
A total of 30,000 traders in Akwa Ibom State will benefit from the Federal Government’s micro-credit scheme under the first phase of its Social Investment Programme in the state. The State Focal Person, Social Investment Programme, Ita Okon, disclosed this recently in Uyo at the training of 310 N-Power volunteers that will register the beneficiaries […]
Protests are ongoing by scores of women and traders from Ogudu retail market. The angry traders are protesting around Awolowo way via Governor’s road, in the Alausa axis of Ikeja. More to follow.
A fracas is being reported between youth gangs and traders between Omonije and Aiye near Answani market area, Oshodi-Isolo LGA, Lagos. More to follow
By Oyindamola Idris Lagos, the fast rising City of Excellence may be towering above other states in the federation, but there are certain landmarks, traits and lifestyles of the people that make up Cosmopolitan Lagos that refuse to be relegated into the trash bin of history. One of them is the popular Night Markets across […]
The leadership of Ogbette Main Market Traders Association (OMMTA), Enugu has called on government officials to stay neutral in the election of executive members of the association. The association also absolved the state governor, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, of complicity in the crisis allegedly championed by an executive member of the association. Addressing newsmen in Enugu, […]
Scores of market women and men stormed the premises of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday over an alleged plan of the state government to demolish Ojodu Retail Market. The protesting marketers who chatted several solidarity songs, however, appealed to the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa to use his office […]
The Mile 12 Traders Association on Wednesday appealed to the Lagos State Government not to relocate the market to Agbowa on the old Ikorodu-Ijebu road. The association’s Chairman, Alhaji Haruna Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the appeal became necessary because of the market’s importance to the West African region. […]