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    Project to strengthen domestic gas distribution, support industrial growth and expand access to cleaner, cost-effective energy across southwestern Nigeria. OCTAGRAM Fusion CNG Limited (“OCTAGRAM”) and the Ondo State Development and Investment Promotion Agency (“ONDIPA”) are pleased to announce a strategic agreement for the development of a proposed 9 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) mother station within the Ore industrial Park in Omotosho area of Ondo State. The long-term agreement, executed on 14 October 2026, provides for the location of the proposed facility within the industrial park, in proximity to existing national natural gas pipeline infrastructure. This strategic location is expected to facilitate access to gas feedstock, subject to the necessary technical and commercial arrangements, while positioning the project to serve industrial and transportation energy demand across Ondo State and the wider southwestern Nigerian ma...

In an industry driven by trends, algorithms, and brand briefs, it is easy to treat original ideas as secondary.  Many creatives learn to wait for direction whether from a client, a platform, or whatever is currently performing well before committing time and resources. The safer route is often the one that already has proof of demand. Championing your own ideas requires a different calculation. It means investing in concepts that may not have an immediate buyer or guaranteed audience. It means refining a point of view, testing formats, and accepting that some projects will take longer to gain traction than commissioned work. For people building personal brands or independent platforms, this is rarely optional. If every piece of output is shaped entirely by external demand, the creative eventually becomes interchangeable. This does not mean ignoring the market. It means distinguishing between adapting to what works and abandoning the ideas that only you are positioned to develop. Je...

    Three-day acting intensive, in partnership with Euphoria360 Academy, holds 23–25 October 2026. Fortis Global Insurance PLC has approved sponsorship for participants at Actor's Lab, a three-day intensive acting class led by actor and theatre practitioner Lanre Adediwura, in a move that connects the insurance sector with Nigeria's fast-growing creative economy. The programme will hold from 23 to 25 October 2026. It is being delivered in partnership with Euphoria360 Academy, an initiative under Euphoria360 Hub, associated with filmmaker and actor Femi Adebayo. The sponsorship will give aspiring and developing actors access to practical, structured training and insight into the professional demands of the screen industry. The initiative is anchored on the message "Protecting the People Who Create Nigeria's Stories." "Nigeria's film and television industry is one of the country's most powerful cultural and commercial exports, and it runs on people,...

      Free medical outreach brings eye surgeries, medication, and eyeglasses to underserved communities in Abule Egba, Ojodu Berger and Ikorodu. LoveWorld Medicaid has announced the successful completion of its Vision 10,000 initiative, a large-scale humanitarian healthcare outreach that recently delivered free medical care to more than 2,500 beneficiaries across three communities in Lagos State: Abule Egba, Ojodu Berger and Ikorodu. Held under the theme “Restoring Sight. Restoring Hope. Transforming Lives.”, the initiative set out to tackle one of the most preventable causes of hardship in low-income communities: untreated vision impairment. For many of the families reached, poor eyesight had become a barrier to work, schooling and independence, while the cost of eye care placed treatment far beyond reach. Over the course of the outreach, volunteer medical teams provided comprehensive eye screenings and consultations, free corrective surgeries for patients with treatable...

 Prince Olawale Bella, popularly known as Prince 2Bella, is a Nigerian author and creative entrepreneur whose life reflects a combination of literature, adventure, business, family, travel, and storytelling. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Prince 2Bella discovered his passion for documenting human experiences and telling stories that connect with everyday people. His books explore African society, relationships, migration, ambition, entrepreneurship, and the realities faced by people pursuing opportunities beyond their immediate environment. He is the author of Tarkwa-Bay My Fortune Love (c) 2022, Life in Tripoli,(c) 2008,  The Hustle Lagosian(c) 2022 and the popular Africa Dream Achievers Vol. 1 for Network Marketers.(c) 2018 Known to many through his creative identities “African James Bond 007” and “African Shakespeare,” Prince 2Bella brings together the adventurous spirit of a traveller and the imagination of a storyteller. His experiences travelling widely around the world have he...

By Linda Obi After 2,810 applications, she says the barrier is paper, not ambition. Linda Obi Serial entrepreneuer Linda Obi spent more than twenty years in oil and gas, renewable energy, infrastructure, technology and consumer goods across sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, as chief executive of AfriHealth, Global Head of Strategy at Zenith Chain and Head of Digital Transformation at Tolaram. She built ZCN because the baseline numbers for female capital allocation were unacceptable, and closing the gap required hard commercial infrastructure rather than just advocacy. Today she leads Zuri Circle Network, a verified community of 1,426 women across three countries. At its centre is a compliance gate that checks three things before a business joins a programme: verified registration, financial documentation and confirmed operations. “We needed to move beyond exploratory networking and build an ecosystem where a ‘yes’ from a bank is backed by verified operational data,” said Obi, Founder and ...