PMI
9 Nov
Project Management Institute (PMI's) Global Megatrends 2024 report has revealed that nearly half of today's workforce skills could become outdated within two years due to advancements like generative AI.
7 Oct
Activities in Nigeria’s industrial sector contracted again in September, marking the ninth consecutive decline in 2024 with PMI at 49.7. This is contained in the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) published by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
5 Oct
Projects Management Institute (PMI) has revealed its 2024 ‘Most Influential Projects’ list with three African projects making the top 20 across industries and regions.
3 Oct
Inflationary pressure continues to hit Nigerian businesses as up to 49 per cent of businesses in the country reported increasing prices of products and services last month even in the face of reduced business activities due to poor consumer purchasing power.
28 Sep
The Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Project Management Institute (PMI),George Asamani, has stated that some factors are critical to curbing the culture of abandoned projects in Nigeria and the rest of Africa.
24 Sep
For advancing the project management profession across the globe, Taopheek Babayeju has been named the Person of the Year 2024, making him the first African to receive this prestigious honour.
14 Sep
The Managing Director, Project Management Institute (PMI), Sub-Saharan Africa, Mr. George Asamani has stated that by the end of the next decade, Africa's population will reach 1.1 billion, becoming the largest workforce globally.
4 Sep
Nigeria’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) saw a marginal uptick in August, rising from 49.2 to 49.9, signalling a slight improvement in business conditions. However, renewed inflationary pressure and other sectoral problems continue...
14 Aug
The galloping inflation and the forex volatility that have kept costs high have continued to drag the country’s economic activities down as the July 2024 composite purchasing managers index (PMI) stood at 49.7 points indicating contraction in economic activities for the thirteenth straight month. This is contained in the July PMI report of the Central…
7 Aug
IN the face of rising costs, low sales and worsening business confidence, stakeholders are calling for urgent actions to raise the bar of industrialisation, TOBI AWODIPE writes. Business activities in the private sector are off to a poor start in the second half of the year, showing a contraction in key indices. A recent purchasing managers’ index (PMI) revealed…
2 Aug
• Five banks accounted for 80.8% industry PAT in 2023 Business confidence in Nigeria at the start of the second half of the year is at an all-time low, judging by July’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI), which shows a steep deterioration from the preceding month of June. According to Stanbic IBTC’s readings, headline PMI declined…
2 Feb
Business activities in Nigeria rose to the highest in 13 months in January, a new purchasing managers’ index (PMI) has revealed.
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