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Samsung launches Mother's Day promotion in Nigeria

Samsung Electronics Nigeria has said it is celebrating women in Nigeria in its Samsung Mother’s Day offer. In a statement, the company said, “Samsung appliances are an epitome of strength, reliability and consistency and we can liken Mothers’ similarly as the symbol of the same standard. At Samsung we believe that mothers must be celebrated so in light of this, we would be giving out gifts…
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Brands & People

AfricInvest acquires a stake in a retail company.

AfricInvest Fund IV has bought a minority stake in the Nigerian retail store, Justrite Superstore. In a statement made available to our correspondent Monday, AfricInvest said that this move would allow Justrite to contribute to building affordable grocery outlets that source local products, support domestic agriculture value chains, and create new jobs while improving the availability of safe…
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Real Estate

Property managers must act ethically.

Stakeholders in the building industry have been charged to uphold standard ethics, which would put the sector in good light and lead to improved welfare for practitioners. A professor of Estate Management at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, Timothy Nubi, attributed the high…
Brands & People

Transcorp Hotels grows profit by 172%

Transcorp Hotels Plc, the hospitality subsidiary of Transcorp Group  has said its profit after tax rose by 172 per cent in 2022 financial period. In a statement on its financial results for full year 2022, it said, “The company reported a profit before tax of N4.5bn, a…
Real Estate

Stakeholders are looking for government interest in real estate.

Stakeholders in the building industry have called on the government to provide incentives to players within the ecosystem as a way of boosting wealth creation and economic prosperity. They disclosed this at the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce and the International Real Estate Federation Real Estate Outlook 2023 themed “Pitching Your Tent Post-2023 Elections” in Lagos. In a statement, the…
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BankingReal Estate

Aid groups lift cash limits for mortgage lenders.

The Housing Development Advocacy Network has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria to give waivers to mortgage banks in the cash withdrawal limit policy. The report titled “How CBN is underdeveloping the Nigerian mortgage sector” noted that appeals made to the CBN for…
Real Estate

Operators project over 60% rise in housing deficit.

Experts in Nigeria’s built industry have predicted an over 60 per cent rise in the housing deficit by 2050, on the back of rising population and urbanisation worsened by economic conditions. The Treasurer of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Lagos Chapter, Philips Ayotunde, projected that the housing deficit would increase by over 60 per cent because the growing population would double by…
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