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African FinTech startups received most funding last year
New report has shown that the fintech sector received the most backing in 2016, with startups in the space…
Nerds Get A Break As GE Awards Scholarships to Best Students in Calabar, Nigeria
GE’s commitment to strengthening its local presence in Nigeria is spurred by the desire to demonstrate investments through…
Building Global Leaders Starts With Taking Them Out Of Their Comfort Zone
If there’s one thing successful leaders are fond of saying, it’s “develop talent and invest in people”. The…
Rocket Internet raises $1bn to invest in startups
Rocket Internet today announced that through the Rocket Internet Capital Partners fund (RICP), it has on January 18,…
Social Media Week is Back to Lagos
Social Media Week Lagos is a week-long conference that provides the ideas, trends, insights and inspiration to help…
Microsoft Offers Grants to Organizations Working to Improve Affordable Internet Access.
Microsoft Corp. renewed its Affordable Access Initiative grant fund for a second year. The fund assists companies working…
New GSMA report recommends MTN-Jumia partnership for African startups and telecos
This week, the GSM Association (GSMA) released a report on Building Synergies: How Mobile Operators and Start-ups Can Partner…
South African entrepreneurs can now join Accra-based MEST
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is calling South African techies and entrepreneurs to join its next dynamic…
Audu Maikori is coming to Startup Grind Lagos
In furtherance of its mission of inspiring, educating, and connecting entrepreneurs, organizers of Startup Grind said they will…
Have you pre-registered for HotelsNG 2017 Remote Internship (paid)?
HotelsNG opened up her doors to their first set of 170 remote interns in 2016. And by November,…