News #StopRobbingUs Campaign Calls for Survivors to Come Forward Nigeria’s tech leaders are calling for hundreds more survivors of the Nigeria Police’s systematic attacks on the country’s young tech entrepreneurs and workers to come forward, as they commence legal proceedings.
News Sim Shagaya's edtech startup, uLessson secures $3.1 million seed funding uLesson—the latest venture of Sim Shagaya—has secured $3.1 million (₦1.1 billion) funding in a seed round led by TLcom Capital, one of the leading venture capital firms focused on the African market.
News First ‘Facebook iD8 Nairobi’ conference celebrates Africa's growing tech ecosystem Facebook gathered over 400 developers, business owners and startups from across Sub-Saharan Africa at the maiden edition of its "Facebook iD8 Nairobi" conference
News Four Nigerian startups get a share of Jack Ma's $1 million LifeBank, TriveAgric, DrugStoc and Black Swan were among the 10 finalists of the maiden edition of the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) organized by Jack Ma Foundation (JMF).
Opinion #StopRobbingUs "It is illegal. Tell them to stop" Would the government take any immediate targeted action to stop the attack against techies?
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
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
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.
Startup Grind Lagos Startup Grind Lagos to host media entrepreneur, Tosin "Olorisupergal" Ajibade Startup Grind Lagos will be hosting "social media hero," Tosin Ajibade (AKA Olorisupergal) on Saturday, March 16 at The Nest Innovation Technology Park in Yaba, Lagos. The event is themed: Becoming an influencer in your industry.
Events Facebook and CcHUB unveil Innovation Showcase Week 2019 #ISW2019 by NG_Hub unveils 21 FBStartAccelerator startups that will be demoing this year. Startups include VetsArk, Doctoora, Findworka and Lara.ng.
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 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.
CcHUB 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.
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.
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.
Spotlight Ecosystem Hangout by Ingressive to focus on regulatory and accounting issues faced by startups Ecosystem hangout by Ingressive holds on the 30th of November, 2018 at Leadspace, Yaba from 5pm to 8pm.This edition would focus on Finance and Regulatory Techniques that Accelerate Startups and Businesses. The
Events Tech Meets Entertainment Summit 2018 The Tech Meets Entertainment Summit (TMES) organised by Ingressive will hold on one day during the Tour of Tech Africa (October 25) at Zone Tech Park. It is a conference designed for everyone
Events 2018 Tour of Tech Africa by Ingressive LLC is set to hold in October The third edition of the Tour of Tech (ToT) Africa organised by Ingressive, a market entry firm for investment groups is set to hold on from October 23-30. The week-long event would treat
Betting Part two: Inside Nigeria's 5-billion-naira-daily Betting Industry In this edition, we look at the rise of sports betting and estimate how much a Nigerian betting company like Bet9ja is turning over.
Betting Inside Nigeria's ₦5-billion-daily Betting industry A multi-part series about the influence of gambling and betting in Nigeria. We examine the possibility of a Gambling disorder among youths in the country.
Events NodeJS NG conference set for Sept. 29 promises jobs for Nigerian developers 'Tis the season of Dev Conferences Fa la la la la, la la la la. Update: This post has been updated to reflect the new date – September 29. The season of Nigerian developer
Concatenate Concatenate Developer Conference: A national pride Is there a reason why most Nigerians, regardless of tribe, religion, and politics seem to be proud of young people doing great things?Lagos, Nigeria – Let's guess. It is the belief that the
Events Are you ready to +"Concatenate"+ with Developers around the world in Nigeria? Last month, we reported that Christian “Codebeast” Nwamba partnered with Microsoft’s Senior Developer, Sarah Drasner, and Cloud Developer Advocate, Brian Holt to bring Concatenate developer conference to Nigeria.
