News Winning regional finals, does Publiseer stand a chance at the Startup World Cup Final? Publiseer, a free digital publishing platform founded by the (identical) twins–Chidi and Chika Nwaogwu, will be representing Nigeria at the Grand Finale of the 2019 SWC on May 17 in San Francisco, United States. They will be competing for the $1 million (investment) grand prize.
News Nigeria's CcHUB expands to East Africa, launching Design Lab in Kigali, Rwanda Co-creation Hub plans to invest up to $11 million in Rwanda, to go along with their expansion into the country.
Opinion Why we need more Product Management meetups—🔍 of Product School Lagos meetup Though nascent, Product Managers across the world are about the highest-paid tech employees. Africa's youth can reap huge dividends from this Product Management rave, if only they knew more about it.
Ingressive Ingressive Capital: Startups, get your 'first cheque' in less than 30 days Ingressive Capital is looking to invest between $50,000 and $100,000 or not in early stage African companies within less than 30 days of application.
News Telecom regulator—NCC—temporarily lifts "Do Not Disturb" restriction ahead of elections NCC has partnered with INEC through the telcos to deliver voters' education over existing mobile network of 172 million subscribers.
Events Startup World Cup Nigeria regional 2019 Meet the 10 startups selected to pitch at Startup World Cup Nigeria regional 2019.
Events The second Atlassian User Group Lagos Meetup to hold in two weeks On Saturday, February 9, 2019, over 50 people will gather at the Eyowo Studio for the second edition of AUG Lagos meetup.
Spotlight E-commerce in Nigeria; case-in-point, Gloo.ng pivot We spoke with the CEO of PayMente Limited (owners of Gloo.ng), Olumide "D.O" Olusanya about e-commerce in Nigeria, and why Gloo was pivoting.
Ingressive Recap of "The Economics of Blockchain", an Ingressive Ecosystem Hangout, January 2019 edition The "Economics of Blockchain – Cryptocurrency, Fintech, and the Entrepreneur", was the theme of the first Ingressive Ecosystem Hangout in 2019.
Ingressive How to build a sustainable business model—an empowerment workshop for women In partnership with EDG Africa and Ingressive, Fempower Africa will be holding a workshop on how to design a sustainable business model using the BMC.
Ingressive International blockchain team to go on tour with Ingressive to Paga, Andela, banks and OFIs in Lagos Ingressive LLC has announced a 2019 Blockchain Tour that will hold from Tuesday, January 8 to Friday, the 11th.An international team of blockchain experts will be visiting Nigeria for an insightful tour
News Oui Capital, an Africa-focused venture capital firm is open for business! Olu Oyinsan alongside partners has launched a $10 million fund targeted at high-growth tech startups in Africa.
Spotlight A chat with the CEO of University Compass—Nigeria's leading university search engine Unlike many other graduates who leave their undergraduate projects on the proverbial academic shelf, Seunla Osinowo decided to build a business out of his.
Opinion HP counters counterfeit product supply, without addressing the demand HP’s Anti Counterfeiting and Fraud (ACF) programme might be focusing too much on the supply of fake products while doing little to address the demand.
Clickatell Count your blessings: Clickatell scoops 4 awards in 2018 Clickatell's successful roll-out of chat banking solutions to legacy African institutions like UBA, and GTB has earned it four awards this year.
News Wakanow gets $40 million investment from Carlyle Group Wakanow—an online travel agency in Nigeria focused on West and East Africa—received funding of $40 million from The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG)—an american multinational investment firm.
News #StartupSouth debuts radio programme on entrepreneurship via Wish 99.5FM #StartupSouth set to launch radio programme focused on entrepreneurship education on Wish 99.5FM.
Events What happened at Facebook’s 2018 Developer Summit in Lagos, Nigeria On December 8, Facebook Developer Circles hosted a summit for developers and founders in Lagos, Nigeria and here is all that happened.
Ingressive Recap: "Finance and Regulatory Techniques to Accelerate Startups and Businesses" brought to you by Ingressive The November edition of the Ecosystem Hangout by Ingressive addressed the knowledge gap in the areas of Finance and Regulatory Techniques to Accelerate Startups and Businesses.
Google How tech giants—Google and Microsoft are driving a digital inclusion future for all #IDPD "We hope more technology companies would think accessibility-first the way they think mobile-first when building digital products".
Events Full recap of TechCabal's FinTech 2.0 Town hall [with HD pictures!] With over 120 people in attendance, here is everything that went down at the TechCabal FinTech townhall sponsored by Softcom Limited, makers of Eyowo.
Google GIC: Google does not believe the winner should take all The maxim, everyone is a winner, has never been more true with the first Google Impact Challenge in Africa - Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. 12 Nigerian social impact startups will share up to $1.75 million.
Financial Services An explainer on the ₦5 billion Financial Services Licence gang and more Financial Services in Nigeria is changing right before our very eyes. And sometimes it could be overwhelming. In this article, Benjamin discusses the most recently released license regulations—Payment Service Banks and an update to the Payment System Providers Licence.
TPLDA Developmental Academy, TPLDA, holds Business Masterclass on December 7 The Phoenix Learning and Developmental Academy (TPLDA) business masterclass for December 7, comes at no cost to the participants.
Financial Services Unifying the Unifier: CBN's move to extend NUBAN to 16 digits Eight months ago, I wrote an article about the flaws of the NUBAN account system implementation in Nigeria. Two weeks ago, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released a draft proposal to review NUBAN implementation in line with the recommendations from my article, taking it a bit further.
