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In Africa, several startups including FoodCourt, Heyfood, and SendMe are vying to become the continent’s top food delivery app. Many are based in Nigeria, one of Africa’s richest countries ...
Kobo360 raised $20 million in a Series A round headed by Goldman Sachs in 2019 [13] and $10 million in working capital funding from Nigerian commercial banks. [14] [13]Kobo360 raised an additional $56 million in its series B round led by Afrexim Bank's equity arm - The Fund For Export Development in Africa (FEDA), with participation from existing investors.
In 2018, MEST Africa launched its inaugural Pan-African Pitch competition, the MEST Africa Challenge, which saw over 700 applications from startups in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Since then, MEST has organized the competition each year offering up to $50,000 in equity investment to African entrepreneurs as they build ...
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
For a while, there have been talks about revamping the outdated 2007 Act of Nigeria's information and technology body, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). The bill ...
Start ups are shaking up Nigeria's local food supply chain. Vendease is one firm which has created a digital marketplace allowing wholesalers, shopkeepers, restaurateurs and hotels to buy directly ...
Co-Creation Hub was founded in October 2010 by Bosun Tijani and Femi Longe. It officially opened in September 2011 as a social innovation centre at 294, Herbert Macaulay, Yaba, serving as an open living lab dedicated to accelerating the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) is a news reporting agency owned and run by the Federal Government of Nigeria just like Nigerian Television Authority. [1] NAN was formed in part to disseminate news easily across the country and to the international community and also as a means to counter negative stories about Nigeria.