Brandcom - Linking the future

BUA Foods Plc has been recognised in the 2026 edition of the Financial Times’ Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies ranking, reinforcing the Company’s emergence as one of Africa’s leading industrial growth stories and underscoring the increasing global relevance of large-scale manufacturing businesses driving economic transformation across the continent. Published annually since 2021 by the Financial Times in collaboration with Statista, the ranking recognises companies across Africa…

Google has quietly rolled out an unmissable visual overhaul of Gmail and its wider suite of Workspace productivity tools, replacing the flat, primary-colour icons that have been a fixture of digital life for nearly six years with a new design language built around soft gradients and what the company describes as an artificial-intelligence aesthetic. The redesign, which began appearing on the web and on mobile devices on 18 May 2026, affects Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Keep,…

Dangote Refinery and Airtel Money have announced plans of their public listing for the third quarter of the year. Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Dangote Group, revealed last Wednesday, that the refinery’s Initial Public Offering is firmly on course for September, explaining that investors demands ahead of the launch have already approached $2 billion. On the public listing by Airtel Africa, the company had pushed back the planned listing of its Airtel money business to the second half of 2026,…

Truecaller, a caller ID company, has expanded into the travel eSIM market with the launch of its eSIM services for travellers. The expansion comes as the company seeks to diversify its revenue streams and reduce dependence on advertising income amid declining earnings from ads. According to the company, the service will initially be available across 29 countries, including Nigeria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Egypt, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and several other…

Wema Bank has declared its intention to expand aggressively as it eyes a place among Nigeria’s tier-one lenders in the near future. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Wema Bank, Moruf Oseni, revealed the expansion ambition during the bank’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lagos. Addressing shareholders at the AGM, Oseni said the bank’s management team and staff are deliberately positioning Wema Bank for entry into Nigeria’s top banking league, citing rapid profitability growth, stronger…

When MarkHack convenes its inaugural CMO Circle, it will confront the most defining questions facing marketing leadership in Nigeria today. This is hinged on the background of the fact that there is a growing crisis at the top of Nigeria's marketing industry. This crisis is not a crisis of talent as Nigeria has always produced brilliant marketers. It is also not of ambition as Nigerian brands are increasingly punching above their weight on the global stage. The crisis is one of relevance, of whether the Chief…

Nigerian music star, Wizkid has become the first African artist to surpass 11 billion total streams on Spotify across all credited appearances, marking another major milestone for Afrobeats on the global stage. The achievement is attributed to data shared by music analytics platform Charts Africa. According to the reports, he is also the first African artist to hit earlier Spotify milestones including one billion, two billion and 10 billion streams. This streaming milestone further strengthens Wizkid’s…

Tech giant, Google has announced a new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio. The new app aims to shrink a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to minutes. The company made the announcement at At the Google I/O 2026 in Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, California, last Tuesday. According to the company, consumers will be able to use Gemini AI to find the apps they need, both on the Play Store and the web, expanding opportunities for developers to have…