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CANAL+ Group Acquires ROK

ROK, the leading African film studio and international TV network, has been acquired by CANAL+ Group, comprising production, content distribution and publishing channels. As part of the transaction, IROKO Ltd will also take full control of the JV IROKO+, the #1 SVOD platform in French-speaking Africa. The move comes as CANAL+ Group looks to strengthen…

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July 17, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

acquisition, Africa, AWP, AWP Network, change, content marketing, digital, distributor, film, Mary Njoku, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, production, studio, women, women empowerment
WAAW Foundation to host Free Digital Skills Training

WAAW Foundation in collaboration with Digivate 360 brings you a FREE Digital Skills Training – Boost Your Business with Facebook. This training session will avail business owners and startups the opportunity of acquiring skills needed to increase their reach & visibility to potential customers online, and also create a platform to network with like-minded entrepreneurs and business leaders.…

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June 14, 2019

Events

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs
She Leads Africa to host Free Digital Marketing Trainings

The She Leads Africa – She Means Business program will organize digital marketing trainings in partnership with Facebook, with the aim to teach over 4,000 Nigerian women the digital skills needed to bring their businesses online and compete in the global marketplace. At these trainings, attendees will be able to: Learn professional development and digital…

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June 14, 2019

Events

Accelerator program, Africa, African women power, African youths, Afua Osei, awards, AWP Network, Belo-Osagie, business, business accelerator, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Dangote, development, education, entrepreneur, entrepreneur showcase, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, high growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, Olushoga, popup coworking space, program, progress, She Leads Africa, SheHive, SheLeadsAfrica, small business, smallbiz, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tony Elumelu, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women leadership, Yasmin Belo-Osagie, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth
WorldRemit Launches New Service for SMEs

WorldRemit has launched WorldRemit for Business, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business owners to quickly pay employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The platform will first be available to U.K.-registered businesses. WorldRemit’s low fees and exchange rates are shown up-front and customers can send money easily via the…

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June 14, 2019

Events

AdGeek, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Cape Town, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, Claimsync, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, Meltwater Foundation, MEST, MEST Africa, MEST Africa Summit, MEST Incubator, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, RetailTower, Saya, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths
Startups Win $50,000 at the MEST Africa Pan-African Tech Summit in Nairobi

This year’s Summit was held in partnership with Microsoft. Additional sponsors included Liquid Telecom, Africa’s Talking, Oracle, Intel, Lori Systems, Flutterwave, Stratlink, Ethiopian Airlines and a number of ecosystem partners. The Summit was held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Nairobi on Conference Day, and the Nairobi Garage, home of MEST Africa’s Nairobi Incubator, on…

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June 14, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

AdGeek, Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, Cape Town, Côte d’Ivoire, challenge, change, Claimsync, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Ghana, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mary Olusoga, Meltwater Foundation, MEST, MEST Africa, MEST Africa Summit, MEST Incubator, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, RetailTower, Saya, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths, YouthsAfrica
Andela launches The Power of “X” campaign as it scales engineering teams across the continent

Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, is recruiting mid and senior level developers in 2019, as part of a new Power of ‘X’ campaign, as it looks to scale its operations and meet growing demand. This comes as more companies seek to enhance their technology teams via distributed workforces.…

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May 24, 2019

Events

Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, Andela, Andela Fellowship, AWP, AWP Network, business, business support, change, coding, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, tech education, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths
Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum set to take place in Abuja

Every year, the Tony Elumelu Foundation—Africa’s foremost champion of entrepreneurship—hosts the largest convening of entrepreneurs, policymakers and business leaders in one location. This year, the 5th edition themed “Empowering African Entrepreneurs” will take place at the iconic Transcorp Hilton, in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The forum will feature masterclasses, a dynamic pitching competition, electrifying panel debates, and the Presidential…

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May 24, 2019

Events

access, Africa, African Development Bank, African women power, AWP, AWP Network, borrowers, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, change, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, development, ecosystem, Ethiopia, Finance, financial ecosystem, financial inclusion, Global powers, Kenya, lenders, lending platform, lending sector, loans, Mali, marketplace, Mary Olushoga, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, payment system, Pocket Money, progress, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Stefano Virgili, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Zambia, Zimbabwe
MainOne to commit NGN25billion to digitization of Lagos State

West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state through deployment of ubiquitous broadband infrastructure across the state. At the campaign launch organized in Lagos to announce its plans on Tuesday, Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer, MainOne,…

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May 24, 2019

Events

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices
Wari enables customers to request its financial services on WhatsApp

The introduction of MyWari on WhatsApp provides customers the convenience to transact and communicate directly as well as easily carry out all their operations. This Wari service on WhatsApp is currently available in the following languages: (French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) with Russian and Arabic coming soon. Wari caters to a broader customer base with the aim of enhancing…

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May 24, 2019

Events

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices
CoinCola – Person-to-Person (P2P) Bitcoin platform now in Nigeria

Blockchain Technology is rapidly growing in different continents and many more people beginning to see the importance and relevance of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in their different fields of life. Nations and companies are gradually adopting cryptocurrency in exchange for goods and services instead of fiat. However, the African continent seems to be lagging behind…

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May 24, 2019

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs