Facebook UN Youth Day: Celebrating Africa's Digital Potential In the month of UN Youth Day, I’m delighted that we will be recognizing just some of these talents from across the region. Ime Archibong, Vice President of Product Partnerships at Facebook, writes.
Press release Ecobank appoints Ayo Adepoju as CFO, Nana Araba Abban as Consumer Banking Head Ecobank Transnational Incorporated—the parent company of the pan-African Bank, Ecobank—has announced the appointment of Ayo Adepoju as its Chief Financial Officer and Nana Araba Abban as its Head of Consumer Banking.
Press release Lori Systems expands to the rest of Africa, hires African experts Lori systems has appointed Uche Egboi and Efayomi Carr as COO and Head of Strategic Finance, respectively. While Efayomi will focus on expansion efforts surrounding the company’s financial products, Uche will bring to bear her wealth of experience in scaling companies.
Press release Gokada partners with Lagos State Government to plant 100,000 trees Gokada commits to planting 100,000 trees in partnership with Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK).
Events A comprehensive recap of the 4th MEST Africa Summit Here is everything that happened last week in Nairobi, Kenya at MEST Africa Summit 2019, held in partnership with Microsoft.
News 10 Nigerian startups to compete at 'Pitch2Win', organised by TechCircle and Japan's Freakout holdings Organised in partnership with Japan's Freakout holding, TechCircle has invited the top 5% of Nigerian startups that applied to Pitch2Win ₦1 million on June 12. Read on to find out who the selected startups are.
Opinion Either of these 7 Nigerian tech entrepreneurs could replace the current ICT Minister Either of these seven (7) Nigerian tech entrepreneurs would do a better job than the current ICT Minister for Nigeria, Adebayo Shittu.
Events Innovation Corner to host Beyond Nigeria Summit in June and July Beyond Nigeria Summit convenes young entrepreneurs, investors and stakeholders in the tech ecosystem from across the country to drive conversations around growth and acceleration beyond the shores of Nigeria.
Events Microsoft partners MEST to host the fourth annual pan-African tech Summit MEST Africa has officially announced its fourth annual MEST Africa Summit, in collaboration with Microsoft.Launched in Ghana by Jorn Lyseggen, MEST is an 11-year-old pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund and incubator
Spotlight Zambia's Code Savannah, Nigeria's Gracit Foundation and TechQuest are African Tech Nonprofits deserving the spotlight “Software is eating the world”, but that in itself is just a part of technology. Over the past few years, we have seen technology companies dominate the startup scene across the world, even
Betting More than 32% of Nigerians place bets on the weekend Sports betting in Nigeria generated an estimated $180 million in revenue between January and October of 2018, as more Nigerians take to betting.
Startup Grind Lagos Four pillars on how to grow your brand influence as told by Tosin "Olorisupergal" Ajibade Startup Grind Lagos marched into March with the founder of Olorisupergal, Tosin Ajibade, a thought leader in influencer marketing and the Author of From Social Misfit to Social Media Hero. The event held
Opinion How to price your product in a B2B marketplace Investor Olu Oyinsan advises startups on how to price their B2B product leveraging his experience on both sides of the trading table, buyer and seller.
News Farmcrowdy raises additional seed funding of $1 million, announces Farmcrowdy Group Agritech startup, Farmcrowdy has closed an additional seed funding of $1 million with eyes set on Series A later this year.
News Jack Ma's Foundation appoints Nigeria's Network of Innovators and Incubators as regional partner for the $10 million Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has appointed the Network of Incubators and Innovators in Nigeria (NINE) as its West Africa regional partner.
Spotlight Meet the young Nigerians visualising Nigeria's Election data—Stears Stears Election centre reveals that with the current INEC-announced results, APC and PDP account for 97% of the Presidential votes with APC in the lead.
News Application for Silicon Valley Internship Programme closes on February 24 Application for the Silicon Valley Internship Programme (SVIP) is set to close on Sunday, February 24, 2019. The second track of the SVIP, in partnership with GBx-x, accepts female engineers with a STEM degree from outside of Europe.
Events Startup World Cup Nigeria regional 2019 Meet the 10 startups selected to pitch at Startup World Cup Nigeria regional 2019.
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.
Opinion How to get out of the Banking Industry in Nigeria Do you feel stuck working for a commercial bank in Nigeria? Would you like to switch careers but the prospects are looking bleak? I wrote this with you in mind.
