Category: Education

• Founder of AWP Network, Mary Olushoga to Speak at the African Women in Technology Conference

  

  Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network will speak at the African Women in Technology (AWIT) Conference set to take place in Lagos at Zone Tech Park. The yearly conference brings together stakeholders and trendsetters around the world, with a spotlight on African women in technology both at home and in Diaspora. The AWIT platform serves…

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  March 26, 2019

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• Founder of AWP Network, Mary Olushoga to Speak at Women in Development Summit in Lagos

  

  The Summit, is one of Nigeria’s leading high-octane networking conference for women working across the globe on development and social change in NGOs, social enterprise, tech-startups, CSR Divisions, the public sector and corporate organizations. The event provides a rallying point for thinkers, visionaries and change-makers who envision a better future for Africa, and are working…

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  March 26, 2019

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• Kobo360 to Launch in Ghana and Kenya

  

  Kobo360, the technology logistics platform, today announced that it will expand operations into Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya. The announcement follows recent news that the company launched in Lome, Togo – home to West Africa’s largest shipping port, and sees a period of rapid expansion for the African start-up. Backed by international and African investors,…

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  March 25, 2019

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• MainOne and Facebook announce open-access fiber network in Nigeria

  

  MainOne has announced a metro fiber infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria, with support from Facebook. The infrastructure collaboration is part of Facebook’s efforts to connect more people to broadband internet. As part of this project, MainOne is building and operating approximately 750 km terrestrial fiber infrastructure in Edo and Ogun States, two of…

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  March 23, 2019

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• NBA and Youtube Partner to Launch Live Games on League’s First Channel Dedicated to Fans in Sub-Saharan Africa

  

  The National Basketball Association (NBA) and YouTube has announced the launch of the NBA’s first YouTube channel dedicated to fans in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to featuring two live games per week in primetime for the rest of the 2018-19 season, including the Playoffs, Conference Finals and The Finals, the NBA Africa YouTube channel will…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Fintech company Amplify acquired by OneFi, fueling effort to shape Nigeria’s fintech infrastructure

  

  Amplified Payments Ltd, a fintech company that builds and facilitates payment solutions and digital financial transactions in Nigeria, has today announced its acquisition by One Finance Limited. The deal, completed for an undisclosed fee, took effect as of March 1st, 2019, and sees OneFi boost its financial services offering, as the company adds Amplify’s assets,…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Marriott Hotels brings TED Fellows Salon to Cape Town

  

  Marriott Hotels in partnership with TED, hosted its first TED Fellows Salon in Cape Town, South Africa, sparking conversations around Africa’s beauty, rich heritage and innovative spirit. Held at the Cape Town Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers, renowned TED Fellows, Kenyan musician Bill Sellanga and South African conservation biologist Steve Boyes, led the innovative and thought-provoking…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Teaching Women in Developing Countries How to Build Apps and Become Engineers

  

  Crowd Machine and the Vital Voices Global Partnership launched its Women in Application Development initiative. The initiative brings together women from nine developing countries to learn how to develop applications using Crowd Machine’s free, online learning platform, Crowd Academy. Crowd Machine enables anyone to create applications even if they do not know how to code.…

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  March 23, 2019

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• 20 Francophone African StartUps Accepted into the World Bank Tech Acceleration Program

  

  Twenty of the most promising Francophone African tech start-ups will participate in the L’Afrique Excelle residency in Mali, a full-week bootcamp set to kick off the Francophone edition of the World Bank Group’s XL Africa, tech start-up accelerator. From March 24 to 30, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to network and learn from leading industry experts, increase their regional…

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  March 13, 2019

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• Nigeria’s OneFi secures $5mn debt facility from Nairobi-based Lendable

  

  One Finance Limited [OneFi] today announces that it has secured a $5M debt facility for its consumer facing platform, Paylater. The facility comes from New York and Nairobi-based Lendable, a technology-enabled funding provider to African consumer and SME lenders. The debt facility will be used to deploy more loans to Paylater customers, specifically through a…

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  March 11, 2019

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