Sugar art with Piece O Cake confectionery

Effyzzie Music’s diva Yemi Alade commences 2017 by serving “Sugar n Spice”; the seventh single off her acclaimed sophomore collection “Mom Africa: The Diary of an African Woman”.

Nigeria sugar master plan - Busari identifies problems of land, communities, etc

Big Brother Naija 2018 winner, Miracle has finally addressed reports making the rounds that he is in a relationship with a ‘Sugar Mummy’ simply identified as Juliet.

Dangote Sugar Refinery is looking to its backward integration plan and raising its refining and production efficiency as part of efforts to overcome what the company’s Group Managing Director, Abdullahi Sule, describes as a very challenging period.

Fred Neumann, co-head of Asian economics and managing director at HSBC, discusses the U.S. economy, the Chinese yuan and his outlook for the Chinese economy.

Nigeria's Strong Girls Network organized an "Anti-Sugar Daddy" conference to educate young girls on sex education and HIV/AIDS.

The German Food and Agriculture Ministry has struck a deal with the food industry to make processed foods healthier. Sugar, salt and fat content in processed foods will be cut by 2025.

Sugar art with Piece O Cake confectionery.

Reps adjourn over loss of Olatoye Sugar.

The headline consumer price index (CPI), annual inflation rate for March 2019 is at 4.5 percent. This is a 0.4 percentage point higher from the 4.1 per cent in February. The CPI for goods has increased by 4.1 per cent year on year and services have seen a decrease as it sits on 4.9 per cent from February’s 5.2 per cent.

Asoko Insight says Nigeria imported approximately 5.2 million metric tons of wheat in 2018. Meanwhile, Nigeria is the second largest importer of Sugar in Sub-Saharan Africa with an annual import of 620.6 million dollars as at 2017. Damilare Adesola, Research Analyst at Asoko Insight joins CNBC Africa to discuss the cost of Nigeria’s rising sugar and wheat imports.

Nigeria's domestic cane sugar production is projected to drop by 6 per cent to 75,000 metric tons, that's according to the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service. Akintunde Sawyer, Agric Consultant joins CNBC Africa to review the impact of Nigeria’s National Sugar Master Plan.