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To give drivers more of their earnings from each trip, Bolt, Ghana’s leading ride-hailing platform has reduced commissions from 25% to 20% for drivers in Accra and Kumasi. This is in line with the company’s commitment to listen and act on feedback it receives from stakeholders and taking into consideration …

…As it surpasses 1 billion rides on the continent[Lagos, Nigeria] 17th February 2023 – Bolt, the leading mobility app in Africa, has announced plans to invest €500 million in its operations on the continent over the next two years. The funds will be used to expand Bolt services in Africa …

Jumia, a pan-African e-commerce platform, says it laid off over 900 workers in order to reduce its cost of operation. The company, in its 2022 fourth quarter (Q4) financial report released recently, said the cut represents 20 percent of its general workforce. Jumia said it experienced an operating loss of …

A new Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has assumed duty at the Lagos State Police Command, taking over from Abiodun Alabi, who was promoted to an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, in charge of Zone 2 with headquarters in Lagos. Confirming the development via a statement on his Twitter handle late Tuesday, the …

Some teachers employed by the immediate administration of Adegboyega Oyetola in Osun State staged a peaceful protest on Monday in Osogbo, asking Governor Ademola Adeleke to reconsider his decision to disengage them. It would be recalled that about 1,500 teachers recruited into the service between September and October 2022 by …

Over 50 per cent of Point of Sale operators have closed their shops as scarcity of new and old naira notes bites harder, it has been learnt. The National Chief Aggregating Officer of the Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria, Hussein Olanrewaju, who made this disclosure on Monday, said the …

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has concluded plans to file trade dispute suits with the Registrar of Trade Unions against state governments that have refused to implement the N30,000 minimum wage. The leadership of the teachers’ union said the action became necessary after some “non-cooperative” state governors blatantly refused …

The National Population on Friday inspected and took delivery of 100,000 Personal Digital Assistant devices for the 2023 population and housing census. Speaking during the handover ceremony in Lagos, NPC boss, Nasir Kwarra, said the PDA device as the major medium for the digital census, would determine the success of …

The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Orji Innocent, raised the alarm over the huge number of members of the association moving out of the country for greener pastures, saying that the association has lost over 2,800 members in the last two years.He said if the situation …

The United States-based automobile manufacturing company, Ford has planned to cut 3,200 jobs across Europe, in its bid to reduce costs and shift *focus* towards electric vehicles. According to Guardian UK on Tuesday, most of the 2,500 jobs in product development and up to 700 in administrative roles the automaker …