First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has intensified its support to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) by providing interest-free loans of up to N5 million to entrepreneurs. The support, under the bank’s SheVentures initiative, was designed for female-owned businesses for a period of three months. Last year, several female entrepreneurs across Nigeria and operating in various sectors, received loans ranging from N500,000.00 to N5million from the lender, at zero interest rate, to grow their businesses. Thousands of others also benefitted from free training, mentoring and other empowerment pr ..read more

Crypto exchanges operating in Nigeria have reacted to CBN’s directive to financial institutions to discontinue dealings with crypto-related transactions. The leader of the world’s biggest crypto exchange, Changpeng Zhao recently disclosed that Binance was complying with Nigeria’s Apex bank directive and has disabled deposits to prevent more NGN from coming in. The highly revered crypto leader updated its clientele base by notifying them via Twitter it received notice from channel partners that NGN deposits and withdrawals will be affected. What this means: Changpeng Zhao anticipates that the ..read more

President Muhammadu Buhari, former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu; former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; President, African Development Bank (ADB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina; and the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, are among dignitaries lined up to speak to participants at Ehingbeti, the Lagos economic summit, scheduled to hold from next Tuesday to Thursday. Other speakers expected at the summit are Founder and Chair of Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Mo Ibrahim; Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola ..read more

Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE): is the world’s first digital accelerator and leads today as one of the largest digital ecosystem development platforms. With a mission to educate, inspire and prepare individuals and organizations for the digital age, GSE brings together both private and public stakeholders to address humanity’s greatest challenges via exponential technologies and entrepreneurship. In a post-pandemic world, it’s time that we up-skill and prepare both career professionals and entrepreneurs for a remote digital future! Welcome to the world’s largest digital accelerator with a focu ..read more

WOULD YOU NOT RATHER MAKE 6 DIGITS MONTHLY? We will show you how if you will read this piece to the end. You can be in the comfort of your home and make 6 digits every month as a social media manager or consultant for other businesses and organisations. Small and medium scale business owners are giving up on handling their social media needs. They are not getting the results they want!  Some have been on Instagram, Facebook and other social media platform for at least two years and they haven’t made a single sale.  In this COVID era, organisations are downsizing, yet more and mor ..read more

Sidebrief and SMEPeaks with a host of other partners would like to offer you our little support during this period of COVID-19 because we understand that it is a hard time for most businesses around the world. We are offering assistance to businesses in Nigeria, by helping them evaluate, apply, and access different COVID-19 business loans or grants within and outside Nigeria which they may be eligible for. This service is free.  To access the service, please click the link below to fill our evaluation form to ascertain your eligibility for available funding options: COVID-19 Funding Suppo ..read more

Forbes announced Nigeria’s First Digital Startup Accelerator program powered by the Global Startup Ecosystem early this year and within 2 weeks received over 5000+ applications. 200 companies were selected for the 2020 program which offered 4 weeks of free virtual training from 50 global speakers and access to $100k in free credits and perks from AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Sendgrid. The program will culminate on June 25, 2020, from 12-3pm EST with the first Forbes Nigeria Summit featuring the top companies from the cohort. All 100+ ecosystem partners and 50+ speakers from the program wil ..read more

Forbes8 announces Nigeria’s First Resilience Digital Startup Accelerator program. The free virtual accelerator will welcome 100 top companies from Nigeria. Founders selected for the program will undergo 4 intensive weeks of digital training to help build and scale their companies for the future. Applications are now open and close on May 26th. Apply Now  Forbes Magazine is an iconic brand that has graced our business culture for over a century (since 1917). Forbes recently launched Forbes8 – a Netflix for entrepreneurs community platform to provide access to its top business mogul communi ..read more

After the successful course “Social Media Influencing”  with Elizabeth Osho of So Me Solutions because trust me, we had a lot of fun alongside educating ourselves. If you weren’t able to, not to worry. We are back with another edition which promises to be more interesting. We will be going into real topics and issues usually encountered when  positioning ourselves, BRAND, Products or services. Our next course will focus on how best to position and sell your brand to have success and recognition. These questions have pushed Liz to create a course called the Art of Selling where tips w ..read more

Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE): is the world’s first digital accelerator and leads today as one of the largest digital ecosystem development platforms. With a mission to educate, inspire and prepare individuals and organizations for the digital age, GSE brings together both private and public stakeholders to address humanity’s greatest challenges via exponential technologies and entrepreneurship. In a post-pandemic world, it’s time that we up-skill and prepare both career professionals and entrepreneurs for a remote digital future! Welcome to the world’s largest digital accelerator with a focu ..read more