Tag: Africa

• 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

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  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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Opportunity: Cellulant Nigeria Hiring for Head of Marketing

  

  Cellulant, a well established digital payments provider and one of the 7 companies that make up the underlying e-Payment infrastructure in Nigeria is currently hiring for the role of Head of Marketing. The company is looking for someone with 10 years of experience in the market. Cellulant is tasked with increasing the uptake of e-Commerce,…

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  May 15, 2019

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• Opportunity: WAAW Foundation is Recruiting for a Business Development Manager

  

  This position is to manage WAAW Foundation fundraising and partnership growth strategies, including business development, sales, and program management for software development projects and STEM training, project planning, management, administrative support to WAAW foundation programs. The Business Development Manager is responsible for the organization’s consistent achievement of its mission and objectives in program development and…

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  May 15, 2019

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• Opportunity: WAAW Foundation Seeks Executive Director

  

  The WAAW Foundation is a 501(c) non-profit organization whose mission is to empower girls throughout Africa by increasing the pipeline of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The WAAW Foundation does the following: provides college scholarships to African girls, organizes STEM Robotics camps and operates STEM outreach and mentoring programs in University campuses across Africa to…

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  May 15, 2019

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• New marketplace seeks to expand Africa’s financial ecosystem – Introducing Pocket Money

  

  Pocket Money is a digital lending marketplace determined to transform the financial fortunes of borrowers in Africa by pioneering a ‘cyclic’ lending system that will provide a breath of fresh air even to potential borrowers who had previously been ‘rejected’ by lenders within Pocket Money’s ecosystem. To address this challenge, Pocket Money has come up…

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  May 15, 2019

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• Apply: €100,000 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Award

  

  The 2019 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards Program, in partnership with The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is now open. The awards will celebrate inspirational young people from all over the world with existing initiatives, products or services that are tackling some of the world’s social and environmental issues. This year’s entries will focus…

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  May 8, 2019

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• Apply: Andza Investment and Acceleration Program for South African Entrepreneurs

  

  The SA Innovation Summit, Africa’s largest start-up event, has launched ANDZA, a competition which will offer South Africa’s top entrepreneurs the chance to be considered for R10 million in investment funding and acceleration. ANDZA is launched in collaboration with the SA SME Fund which is committed to developing South African entrepreneurs as an integral part…

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  May 7, 2019

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  Accelerator program, Africa, African youths, Angola, awards, AWP Network, bioscience, Botswana, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FemBioBiz, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, Lesotho, Malawi, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Mauritius, mobile technology, Mozambique, my voice matters, Namibia, Nigeria, program, progress, senior managers, Seychelles, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Swaziland, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths, Zambia