The Business Exchange: How Business Works

On the next episode of "The Business Exchange," Margaret Olele celebrates Women History Month by talking with Eyono Fatayi-Williams of Women in Energy Network about Empowering women and embracing diversity.

The recent episode of the business exchange features Thelma Ekiyor-Solanke, Chairperson, Nigeria Office for Philanthropy & Impact Investing (NPO) as they discussed Driving Economic Growth through Social Impact in Nigeria.

On this episode of the Business Exchange, Opeyemi Iredumare, Managing Partner/Co-Founder, Technolawgical Partners and author of the book, "Music Commerce in Africa" joins the episode to discuss about the progress in the creative industry in Nigeria and what changes need to be implemented to further advance this fast growing sector in the country.

Following up on out YouthinTEAS Series, we feature Dr. Inya Lawal, Founder of Ascend Studios Foundation. This non-profit organizations is a Global Movement with a mandate to provide Capacity Building and Social, Educational, and Economic Empowerment to Women and Youth.

On this episode of the business exchange, Gbemisola Abudu, Vice President & Country Head, NBA Nigeria, joins us for YouthinTEAS series to discuss the importance cultivating the next prospect of Nigeria's youth in sports, particularly in the field of basketball.

On this episode of the Business Exchange, Kenneth Obiajulu of Agricorp International joins the show. Agricorp specialises in livestock production, processing, and export of poultry products, utilising cutting-edge technology to meet growing market demand. Our state-of-the-art poultry facilities are strategically located in three locations in Nigeria, with a combined annual production capacity of 4...

On the episode of the business exchange podcast, we have the new President of American Business Council Nigeria, Sopiribo Ideriah, discussing the future of Nigeria following its transition into a new government.

The world celebrated #worldsicklecellday2023. Nigeria remains the country with the highest incidence of birth and death before the age of five. What healthcare policies are in place to mitigate this situation? Are Multinationals Companies working together to support the efforts? Are there public -private sector collaboration in this area? American Business Council Nigeria's Margaret Olele discusse...

American Business Council Nigeria recently established a sustainability Working Group led by Adebisi A. Country Leader for Dow in Nigeria and supported by Ehize Ilozavbie of ATC Nigeria to initiate interventions that support Nigeria’s transition to clean energy and combat climate change. The project will include a survey of the sustainability initiatives deployed by American businesses operating i...

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) was a laudable initiative of the past administration to improve the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The Council initiated over 160 business enabling reforms in government ministries, departments, and agencies. As a result of these reforms, Nigeria’s ease of doing business score improved by over 8.5 basis points, and Nigeria moved up...

On this episode, Dr. Yemi Kale gives us an insight on the debt issues Nigeria faces and offer solutions to how the country can rectify the problem as a new government is on the horizon.

On this episode, we delve deep into the civil society organizations as important agents to the societal development in democratic countries. We also discuss the new modern equipment adopted in the 2023 Nigeria elections.

On this episode of The Business Exchange, we welcome Dr. Imodoye Abioro and Tunde Oyebamiji of HealthBotics. This company is an innovative health technology startup focused on building AI- driven health solutions for the African market and recently they were the winners of the 2022 Africa Digital Competition by the United States Chamber of Commerce (The U.S.-Africa Business Center).

On this episode of The Business Exchange, we have Ms. Abayomi Olarinmoye of Verraki Partners gave an insight the business outlook on the global and local forefront for 2023. #AmericanBusinessCouncil #Nigeria #Global #Headwinds #monetarypolicy #geopoliticaltensions

Nigeria is a country with a vibrant youth population, who are extremely gifted and talented when it comes to thinking outside box for business ventures. The massive problem Nigeria faces is the high unemployment rate in the country, which has left the youth population in dire situations. It is unlikely the unemployment trend is the country changes anytime soon. In fact, the National Bureau of Stat...

On today's episode, we have Mokutima Ajileye, Managing Director of P&G Nigeria. She is responsible for leading the company’s business operations in the country. She started her career in manufacturing in the brewing industry, but pivoted to Marketing upon joining P&G. She is a highly experienced business leader with over 18 years of accomplishments in building brands, growing businesses and solvin...

In Nigeria, cancer leads to over 72,000 deaths per annum (30924 for male and 40 647 for female). This number is set to increase given that there are 102,000 new cases of cancer every year. The estimated incidence for breast cancer is (27%), cervix uteri (14%), liver (12%), prostate (12%) and colorectum (4.1%). While estimated mortality for breast cancer is (20%), liver (16%), prostate (13%), cervi...

On this episode of The Business Exchange, we welcome Confidence Staveley of CyberSafe Foundation as she discusses how her organization is on a mission to facilitate pockets of changes that ensure a safer internet for everyone with digital access in Africa.

On this episode of The Business Exchange, we sit down with Ashley Ndir and Elvire Kodio to discuss how the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) is helping Nigeria with its spotlight series.

On this week's episode, we are joined by Amal Hassan, CEO of OutsourceGlobal, Nigeria's leading business process outsourcing company, servicing countries in Africa, the United States, UK and Japan. Her passion to unlock Nigeria’s developmental potentials through technology-driven innovation and value addition led her to build, capitalize and restructure a series of technology-related businesses th...

On this episode, Oluwabankole Falade, Chief Regulatory and Government Relations Officer, Flutterwave, gives into the impact of digital payment platforms on the Nigerian economy.

It is hard to doubt the rise of Afrobeats in 2022 as well as the individuals who have led to the success of the genre over the past couple of years. According to a report from consultants at PWC forecasts that the fast-growing entertainment industry will earn $14.8bn in 2025, up from its current revenue of $7.7 bn. On this special episode, M.I Abaga joins us to give us a more in depth understandin...

Blockchain technology has received widespread attention for its potential to transform virtually every sector of our economy – from finance, healthcare, and logistics to the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Moreover, the technology itself has created its own industries, including new markets for digital property (e.g., non-fungible tokens (NFTs)) with associated intellec...

In this episode Maggie discusses Food Safety: Implications for Nigeria with Jane Omojokun. The world celebrated Food Safety this month with the theme “safer food, better health”, yet food shortages no thanks to global crisis and natural disasters threaten access to Food in general and safe food in particular. This in turns creates health challenges that continue to pile pressures on governments. S...

Healthcare in Africa remains a vital topic and it is one area that sums up the continent’s development challenges in the field of health. The problems are due to the lack of access to basic health care, which mostly caused by poor funding. This contributes to harrowing health tragedies on the continent. Despite the negative outcomes, the coming of technology is an area more companies are exploitin...