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Oluwaseun Lawal Wins Prestigious Tech Trailblazer Award for Innovation in Fintech

The Tech Trailblazer Visionary Prize has recognized an outstanding achievement in Nigeria’s technology sector with ...

Kenya is Africa’s start-up funding top destination

Kenya is Africa’s start-up funding top destination

Kenya has managed to overcome a global decline in funding for new companies, achieving a ...

Gambia’s Digital Payment Platform Inks Partnership with African Development Bank

Gambia's digital payment platform partners with the African Development Bank to drive financial inclusion and ...
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PrimeLink Secures $2 Million in Funding to Scale Operations

PrimeLink, a fast-rising leader in the supply chain industry, has successfully raised $2 million in ...

Inspiring Growth, and Driving Change

10 Nigerian Entrepreneurs Transforming Business, Innovation, and Everyday Life

Nigeria’s entrepreneurial scene isn’t just thriving, it’s exploding with innovation, ambition, and unstoppable energy. Across ...

Inspiring Growth, and Driving Change

10 Nigerian Founders Shaping Industries, Inspiring Growth, and Driving Change

Entrepreneurship continues to serve as a powerful engine for transformation, creating jobs, unlocking new markets, ...

Nigerians still grapple with unrelenting power shortages

Nigerians still grapple with unrelenting power shortages

Every morning, dimly lit and stuffy classrooms come alive as children take their seats. Sunlight ...

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Council for Business Innovation and Excellence: Advancing a New Era of Entrepreneurial Standards

Refining innovation is one thing, recognizing the kind that lasts is another. That’s the philosophy ...

South Sudan YouTubers piggyback on Ugandan and Kenyan digital space

South Sudan YouTubers piggyback on Ugandan and Kenyan digital space

Despite earning foreign currency, YouTubers from South Sudan are forced to relocate to Uganda and ...

NLNG

Nigerian firm, NLNG says it can’t ship natural gas after flooding

A major Nigerian energy company, Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), is facing serious challenges in fulfilling ...

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