Tag: Nigeria

In 2020/2021 I had the pleasure of working with The Worldbank to evaluate small businesses that were eligible for funding. ...

The African Development Bank has signed a grant agreement for $500,000 with Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), a fintech subsidiary ...

VertoFX, a global B2B payments platform, which helps businesses move money across borders seamlessly and instantly, has raised $10 million ...

Plentywaka, a Nigerian mobility startup has announced it will now be known as Treepz as it seeks to align the ...

US-based African-focused fintech Pngme, a financial data infrastructure and machine learning-as-a-service platform has raised $15 million in funding to allow ...

Chaka, a SEC-Licensed Digital Sub-broker and digital investment platform, has raised $1.5M in a pre-seed funding round to enable borderless ...

M-KOPA, the solar system financing firm turned-asset financing platform has officially launched in Nigeria with plans to lend millions of ...

Kuda, Nigeria's digital-first bank has raised a $10 million seed round to bank every African on the planet, wherever they ...

ImaliPay, a Nigerian big data and AI-driven digital platform offering tailored financial products is set to launch in Kenya to ...

Uber Nigeria has hiked fares for its UberX offering starting October 6, 2020. UberX is a popular choice for riders ...

Indicina Technologies has raised a US$ 150,000 seed round from the Honeywell Group's venture capital arm, Itanna. The fintech startup ...

Telco giant, MTN Nigeria, has announced a partnership with US-based music and entertainment streaming service, Tidal. Following the partnership, MTN ...

The Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF) has appointed Daniel Awe as its new head. The appointment was announced by the management ...

Airtel Nigeria has announced its new partnership with Avaya in a bid to boost remote working and learning initiatives in ...

Okra, Africa’s first API fintech “super-connector” has raised $1m from TLcom Capital in pre-seed fundraise to build the infrastructure for ...

iHub Director Nekesa Were has been appointed AfriLabs Interim Executive Director after a career spanning over 10 years in the ...

Binance, one of the leading global cryptocurrency exchange, has recently announced the launch of peer-to-peer (P2P) trading services for the ...

Palladium, a global consultancy, is raising $40m for off-grid solar and agribusiness startups operating in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. Dubbed ...

Opay, Opera's Africa's focused payments and everything platform has added OTrike, a tricycle hailing service to its portfolio, as it ...

iSabiDeliver, an online on-demand delivery service based in Abuja and Ibadan is ramping up its operations to expand to more ...

In Nigeria and Africa at large, there is a huge disconnect between learners' academic qualifications and the skills needed to ...

Alipay, an Alibaba-owned mobile payments processor has partnered with Flutterwave, a pan-African payments firm located in SF and Lagos, Nigeria, ...

WiSolar, a Solar-as-a- Service product in Nigeria and South Africa is seeking to raise $40m to launch its products in ...

Nigerian-based logistics startup Kobo360 has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding round soon after being accepted into the YCombinator class ...

Zoto started off as a mobile recharge platform for the 70 million mobile internet users in Nigeria. Over the last ...

Fedironics Intelligent Metering Company is a smart metering company founded and incorporated in 2016. At Fedironics they believe that everyone ...

Nigerian mothers can relate to the kind of stress that comes with giving birth to and taking care of a ...

There are thousands of medical practitioners and healthcare centres all over Nigeria. But the major problem patients face in most ...

Africa's eCommerce firms have to gamble with logistical hurdles to become successful unlike their international counterparts operating in markets where ...

Over the years, Nigeria's economy was solely dependent on agriculture. However, the huge revenue from crude oil production in the ...