IrokoTV,Jobberman,Konga make the List of The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Africa

TechTrends.Africa IconByKenneth Omeruo Hours On Categories News/Articles, Startups, Tech Brands
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Konga Nigeria     Jobberman Nigeria

Just few minutes ago via twitter,Saul Singer,Co-author of Start-Up Nation,twitted about The World’s Top 10 most innovative companies of 2015 in Africa compiled by Fast Company.

Interestingly,Konga,IrokoTV and Jobberman are among these innovative companies from Africa.It’s something to be excited about.Truly,these companies deserve this mention following their progressive growth in the Nigerian Start-up Ecosystem.They are the pacesetters in their niche.They show some of the success stories of the potentials of young Nigerians in building businesses despite the daunting challenges of poor infrastructure and lack of a matured Start-up Ecosystem in Africa.These companies have continually put Nigeria and in deed Africa in the global news attracting more investors and opportunities to the continent.The narratives about these companies are interesting.Read the full list here.

We celebrate these companies!

 

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Omeruo Ndukaku Kenneth is an Innovation Management expert,the CEO of Emerging Media,a new media company.He is a member of ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management and the US-Africa chamber of Commerce.He is the Founder of TechTrends Nigeria Blog,Nigeria Innovation Summit and the African Innovation Academy.Kenneth is a highly sought-after Internet Marketing Consultant who has through his seminars, articles, training and consulting, helped many organizations, Individuals, Businesses maximize the Internet for business purposes.Kenneth has also being featured as a guest on the TV show TODAY ON STV Nigeria and on Bloomberg Africa TV.He is the author of the best –selling Internet Book: How To Create Unlimited Internet Wealth.

He is a syndicated columnist with the following Newspapers in Nigeria: Daily Independent, Financial Standard, PUNCH, BusinessDay, and Sun.Kenneth organises the EduNet Conference for Universities in Nigeria. Kenneth is a member of Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria( ISPON ) Roundtable For Capacity Development in Nigeria,member pre-selection committee for Nigeria at the UN World Summit Awards,a Panelist for Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria(YouWIN)-a Federal government initiative created by the ministry of finance,supported by ministries of Communications Technology,Youth Development,Worldbank and DFID.

A 2013 Judge at the Google Cloud Developers Challenge for Sub Saharan Africa.He has been a contributing editor of Nigeria Communications Week,Africa Telecom and IT Business Magazine,ICT Today magazine,M2 magazine.Kenneth has been invited to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation Forum, Oracle Open World Conference USA, Oracle Cloud World Dubai, and GITEX Dubai.

He now lives in New York with his family and presently working on an Open Innovation project for Nigeria.
You can contact Kenneth through email: [email protected]

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