ENTER: 2018 Cartier Women’s Initiave Awards For Women Entrepreneurs
For its 2018 edition, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards are looking for inspirational women entrepreneurs worldwide starting up their business, in all fields of activities, to solve contemporary global challenges. Since its More »
Good News For Businesses As Scatec Solar Secures 100 MW Solar Project in Nigeria
The Nova Scotia project company, signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) on July 21st, 2016 Scatec Solar has signed an agreement with CDIL, a More »
Enter Your Solution For Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2016
The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa, and entries are now open to find the best innovations across the continent for 2016. Following the success of last year’s More »
#BrandYourWaithood: Social Entrepreneurs Collaborate For Youth Development
Business Without Boundaries and 360Connect Announce a Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Strategic Solutions for Waithood in Youth. Strategic partnership formed to support co-creation and co-innovation in Youth. Business Without Boundaries More »
Women Deliver Awards Seed Grants To Young Nigerian Leaders
Three young Nigerians are among 20 Young Leaders that will receive seed grants of US$5,000 each to support six-month projects aimed at advancing girls’ and women’s health, rights and wellbeing in their communities by Women Deliver, a global More »
6 Startups Join CcHUB Incubation Program [How to Apply]
The Co-Creation Hub recently called for applications for its revamped incubation program. The search was for committed and ambitious teams with technology solutions that have gained some traction, are generating revenue, addresses a clear need/want and has the potential to
Saucecode Hackathon: Wevote to mobilise for 2019 Elections
A group of young Nigerians has built a citizens mobilization platform for the 2019 elections, simply known as WeVote. In doing so, they emerged overall winner during the grand finale of Saucecode, a Hackathon that was launched by Findworka in
APPLY: Seeking Africa’s Most Innovative Financial Inclusion Start-ups
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, today announced the launch of the 2018 edition of the Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prestigious competition,
[Review] National Transformation through Transformational Leadership
Building the Nigeria of our dreams can only be possible through transformational leadership. This is the key message of the new groundbreaking book authored by Uzo Enelamah, a public speaker, personal transformation coach and author of repute. The book, which
Maritime University: Ugborodo Community Requests Okowa To Prevail On FG
[12:47, 1/24/2018] Dennis Otu: The people of Ugborodo Community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have called on the State Governor, Senator (Dr) Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa to prevail on the Federal Government for the urgent take
Nigerian SMEs are not investible – FirmCore Capital
Investors cannot invest in many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, founder and managing director of FirmCore Capital, Obinna Isiadinso, has said. He made this declaration while speaking about entrepreneurship in Africa at a recent forum held in Lagos.
Delta Speaker Charges Colleagues To Redouble Efforts In Legislative Duties
* Commends Governor Okowa For Support To Assembly The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori has charged members of the House to redouble their efforts in their legislative duties in order to impact positively on the
We Are Not Part Of Warri Kingdom, Ugborodo Community Tell Buhari
The people of Ugborodo Community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have maintained that they are not part of Warri Kingdom, insisting that they are autonomous Kingdom. They commended the House of Representatives for passing the
New partnerships to improve internet connectivity for Lagos SMEs
MainOne and Tizeti have announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of internet services in Lagos. This partnership will leverage MainOne’s fibre connectivity, Tizeti’s twenty brand-new solar-powered towers, and Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi. As
MTN’s Lumos Mobile Electricity deploys 60,000th Y’ello Box
The complex dilemma of how to power Nigeria dominates politics and economics, yet hundreds of thousands of people are discovering the answer is to literally take power into their own hands. This week, the Lumos Mobile Electricity Service deployed its
