Report:Impact Investing in West Africa
Am sharing this interesting report on impact investing in West Africa Titled:THE LANDSCAPE FOR IMPACT INVESTING IN WEST AFRICA: Understanding…
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Application for the 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme still on
Budding entrepreneurs across Africa can now apply to join the second annual Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) for start-up businesses…
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MainOne: Nigerian-Cameroun Submarine Cable System (NCSCS) Goes Live
MainOne , a leading telecoms and network services provider in West Africa, has announced that the high capacity Nigerian-Cameroun Submarine Cable…
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Africa Can Now Netflix and Chill
Few days ago I wrote about the opportunities in Africa for African startups to leverage from in 2016.I also mentioned…
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Technology Trends That Will Drive Increased Opportunity For African Start-ups In 2016
As 2016 gradually unfolds, first I would like to wish you a great success this year in all your endeavors…
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Jumia Nigeria Announces Juliet Anamah as New CEO
Jumia one of the e-commerce leaders in Africa formalizes the appointment of Mrs Juliet Anammah at the CEO of Jumia…
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Nigeria Computer Society Lays Foundation for N1 Billion Secretariat to Drive Technology and Innovation in Nigeria
Pics:Prof Adesola Aderounmu,President Nigeria Computer Society The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS),the flagship body of Information Technology companies and organisations in…
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U.S. Chamber Launches U.S.-Africa Business Center
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on December 14,2015 announced the formation of the U.S.-Africa Business Center (USABC), launching efforts to…
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Top 3 Predictions for FinTech, Mobile Money and Financial Inclusion in 2016
Editor’s note:This article contributed by Alix Murphy of WorldRemit gives insight into opportunities around Mobile money,FinTech and financial inclusion for…
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TechTrends Top 10 Articles of 2015
As the year 2015 gradually comes to an end we bring you the top 10 articles on our blog.These are…
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Elon Musk,Peter Thiel,Amazon and others Donate $1 Billion for Research on Artificial Intelligence.
Its easy to know where the next big thing in technology is by what people are devoting their time and money…
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Nigeria Becomes African Champions At Global Cyberlympics In Washington DC
Nigerian Team of cyber security professionals “TeamNaija” has been crowned African champions at the just concluded Global Cyberlympics held in…
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Mobility, Cloud, Big Data,IoT drive Nigeria IT spending to $5.3 Billion in 2016
Information Technology spending in Nigeria-the largest economy in Africa- will top $5.3 billion in 2016 as organizations increasingly embrace digital…
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AfricaConnect2:A €26.6m Africa and European Union Internet project to transform African science and education
African research and education network associations WACREN, the UbuntuNet Alliance and ASREN have partnered with their European counterpart GÉANT in…
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Steve Wozniak,Alec Ross,Muhammad Yunus,Jonathan Henning,Chinedu Echeruo at Access Conference Lagos Nigeria
Top experts in Innovation and Transformation around the world gathered today in Lagos,Nigeria at the 2015 Access Conference.The theme of…
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Facebook launches Innovation Challenge in Africa
Facebook is launching the Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, with the aim of recognising developers and entrepreneurs who are using…
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British High Commission hosts Future African Leaders
The British High Commission in Nigeria hosted winners and nominees of The Future Awards Africa 2015 to a reception at…
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China Emerges the Fastest Growing Market for Wearables-IDC
Image from FitBit A recent report from International Data Corporation (IDC ) has shown that China has quickly emerged as…
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Signal Alliance subsidiary Sasware invests in Health Technology Startup-Medismarts
According to Nigeria Communications Week,Sasware, the Technology investment subsidiary of Signal Alliance today announced an investment in Medismarts, a health…
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Senate Confirms Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta as Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
We got this news from Nigeria Communications Commission that the Nigerian Senate yesterday confirmed Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta as Executive…
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CradleCount App by Kesandu Nwokolo-An innovative Healthcare App for Pregnant Women in Africa.
CradleCount App by Kesandu Nwokolo is an innovative Health care app for pregnant women in Africa,the app is set to…
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Connecting the next 1 billion:Microsoft Launches Fund to improve Internet Access in Developing Countries.
The need to connect the next 1 billion people to the internet is growing as many organisations like Facebook and…
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Orange announce winners of the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize
Orange announced the winners of the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town…
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Chris Kwekowe,A 22 Year Old Nigerian and founder of Slatecube wins Anzisha 2015 Grand Prize for African youth entrepreneurship
The Anzisha Prize is thrilled to announce this year’s winner of the $25,000 Grand Prize in the 5th year of…
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Meet Nigeria’s new Minister of Science and Technology- Dr.Ogbonnaya Onu
The new global economy is one that ranks nations top of the other based on their Science and Technology Development.For…
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Nigeria:President Buhari Swears in Ministers,becomes Minister of Petroleum Resources
President of Nigeria,Muhammadu Buhari today swore in Ministers to help him oversee the affairs of the country.Interestingly the President himself…
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Raising the Next Generation of African Leaders:2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders
The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders which begun in 2014, is the flagship program of President Obama’s Young…
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African Innovators selected for Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
A solar-powered high-tech greenhouse, systems to stop electricity theft, and food supplements made from caterpillars are among twelve innovations shortlisted…
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When Big Data, Cloud and Internet of Things Technologies can enable African Startups become Disruptive.
The new technologies making waves now revolve around Big Data, Cloud and Internet of Things. We are really getting so…
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Leveraging the Growing Digital Opportunities in Nigeria
Image illustration from Bangkokpost Opportunities around digital economy is increasingly growing in most regions of Africa especially in Nigeria.For West African…
