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Marriott, Landmark Africa Group Announce Agreement on Renaissance Lagos hotel, Marriott Executive Apartments

November 15, 2017/Marriott International, Inc.. Marriott International (NASDAQ: MAR) (www.Marriott.com) and Landmark Africa Group (www.LandmarkAfrica.com) today announced the signing of Renaissance Lagos Hotel and Marriott Executive Apartments. Slated to open in 2020, the hotels will be located within the Landmark Village precinct, a premier mixed-use, business, leisure and lifestyle development […]

Nigeria, Senegal and Cape Verde dominate the West African hotel pipeline with 77% of the total planned hotel rooms

November 14, 2017/API Events West Africa has been at the heart of the continent’s growth and economic transformation in recent years. Notwithstanding the sharp slowdown experienced in 2016 and 2017, the region’s economy is expected to rebound in 2017 onwards. Commodity-based economies, like Nigeria, are slowly recovering from the fall […]

Signposts on the Road to a New Business Environment

Culled—Proshare November 10, 2017/Vetiva Research  At the end of October, the World Bank released its annual Doing Business report for 2018, revealing that Nigeria rose 24 spots to 145th place, the country’s biggest ever jump and its highest position since 2013 (131st). This development came on the back of efforts […]