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- 14 Jul 2024
TD Africa Partners CISCO on Tech-Skills Development in Africa
In its continuous drive to bridge the widening skills gap in Africa's technology sector, TD Africa, Africa's largest technology distribution company, has partnered with Cisco on its month-long…
- 25 Jul 2019
Sterling Bank Partners iCreate Africa to Empower Youths in South-east
Sterling Bank Plc in partnership with iCreate Africa, organisers of technical and vocational skills competition, recently held a skills competition for over 500 youths in the South-east. A statement…
- 1 Oct 2015
ICT Offers Africa Opportunity for Job, Wealth Creation- NITDA DG
Blessed with over 1.2 billion people and a huge opportunity for growth and improvement, information communications technology offers Africa tremendous opportunity for job and wealth creation, Mr.…
- 11 Jul 2021
Jeff Bezos, Amazon and e-commerce Wealth: Can Konga Defend Africa’s Position?
By Kingsley ‘Bobby’ Collins On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, the world awoke to the news that Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce giant, Amazon, had further left the rest of the world behind in the wealth…
- 2 Jun 2021
Tony Elumelu Foundation, DEG Partner to Empower 200 Additional Entrepreneurs Across Africa
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has partnered with DEG, the German development financial…
- 16 Feb 2026
UBA Unveils Diaspora Platform to Connect Global Africans with Investment, Wealth Opportunities
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Africa’s Global Bank, has unveiled a diaspora banking and investment platform designed to serve Africans living and working across the world and within the…
- 27 Jun 2022
TLcom Capital Appoints Eloho Omame as Partner
TLcom, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has appointed Eloho Omame as a Partner, bolstering its capabilities as it ramps up deployment of TIDE Africa Fund II, its new $150mn pan-African tech…
- 9 Oct 2023
SecondSTAX Partners NGX to Drive Investment from Across Africa into Nigeria’s Capital Markets
SecondSTAX, a technology company that is building solutions to enhance intra-Africa capital and investment flows, has announced a new partnership with the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) that will…
- 4 Nov 2019
Tizeti Partners MainOne to Expand Affordable Highspeed WiFi in Africa
Tizeti has extended its partnership with MainOne as the company launches in Ghana as GhanaWifi.com. This will be Tizeti’s first expansion outside Nigeria, in the continuance of the existing…
- 15 Oct 2021
Netflix, UNESCO Launch Groundbreaking Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Netflix and UNESCO have partnered to launch an innovative short film competition on ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’ across Sub-Saharan Africa. Winners of the competition will be trained and mentored…
- 11 Oct 2022
Prudential, Google Cloud Partner to Make Healthcare and Financial Security Accessible Across Africa
Insurance group, Prudential plc (Prudential) and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership to enhance health and financial inclusion for communities across Africa and Asia. Under this alliance,…
- 4 May 2021
Kaspersky Partners DataGroupIT to Strengthen West African Footprint
As part of its strategy to grow its business in West Africa, Kaspersky has partnered with value-added distributor DataGroupIT who will provide the global cybersecurity company with access to new…
- 3 May 2021
Kaspersky Partners DataGroupIT to Bolster West African Footprint
As part of its strategy to grow its business in West Africa, Kaspersky has partnered with value-added distributor DataGroupIT who will provide the global cybersecurity company with access to new…
- 7 Oct 2013
New Richest Men List Put Africa’s Billionaires Fortune @ $144Bn
Ventures Africa, an African business magazine and news service, said it has launched the first of its new annual Africa rich list, touted as the most comprehensive ever compiled. It revealed the true…
- 19 Jul 2017
Inlaks, CBN to Provide Solution for All Microfinance Banks
Inlaks, Financial Technology (Fintech) solutions provider in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa is partnering with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to deploy a single core and agent banking solution for…
- 15 Sept 2016
NiRA Moves .ng Crusade to Jobberman, Crashes Rate to N500
In continuation of "adopt the .ng crusade", Sunday Folayan, president of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) recently led his team to a strategic meeting with One Africa Media, the…
- 29 Jan 2020
Livestock Farming can Change Nigeria’s Agricultural Ecosystem for Good – Muyiwa
Folorunso Muyiwa. is the Chief Executive Officer Of Divergent Enterprise, with an objective to create wealth for its financial partners through pig farming. He recently shared his views on livestock…
- 10 Oct 2022
Azentio Software Wins Award @ MEA Finance’s Wealth & Investment Summit & Awards
Azentio Software (“Azentio”), a Singapore-headquartered technology firm owned by funds advised by Apax Partners, announced that it has won the ‘Best Wealth & Investment Technology Company’ award…
- 21 Nov 2016
AAS,NEPAD Commit $7m to Fund Innovative Ideas in Africa
The African Academy of Sciences and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Agency's Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) have committed $7 million to fund…
- 23 Dec 2025
AfDB Group Mobilises Global Private Capital to Close Africa’s Financing Gap
Building on the successful conclusion of the 17th replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-17), which mobilised $11 billion for Africa’s most vulnerable countries, the African Development…
- 5 Mar 2012
From Cowries to Mobile Money
Great ancient African empires were regional kingdoms where trade and commerce where striving before the advent of colonialism. The great kingdoms of Africa from the Ashanti Empire (Modern Ghana) to…
- 31 Dec 2019
AfDB Backs Spending of Pension Funds on Infrastructure
President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, gave his support for Nigeria to spend pension fund on infrastructure. Adesina said with the continent’s $1.8trillion pension…
- 31 Jan 2023
Microsoft Collaborates with NACOS to Empower 100 Female Undergraduates at GEPICT 2023
Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC) and Microsoft Leap have partnered with the Nigeria Association of Computing Students (NACOS), the umbrella body for students studying Computer Science,…
- 29 Mar 2018
AfDB Champions Africa’s Premier Investment Marketplace for Economic Transformation
To help Africa find the path to its long-deserved economic fortune, the African Development Bank is championing the region’s premier investment market. The Bank is providing collaborative leadership…
- 13 Feb 2024
Mastercard Taps Folasade Femi-Lawal as New Country Manager for West Africa
Mastercard, a leading company in digital payments and technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Folasade Femi-Lawal as the new Country Manager and Area Business Head for West Africa. With…
- 21 Jun 2018
MEST Marks 10 Years of Supporting African Entrepreneurs
Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator MEST, has closed its third successful MEST Africa Summit, which saw leading entrepreneurs, investors and corporate executives…
- 8 Sept 2016
Ecobank Launches Flagship Masterpass QR in Nigeria
Ecobank Group has partnered with Mastercard to launch Ecobank Masterpass QR, an enhancement to the Masterpass global digital payment service that will enable millions of micro, small and medium…
- 25 Oct 2022
Airtel, Microsoft, TD Africa Unveil Office Internet Smartbox Bundles to boost SMEs Productivity in Nigeria
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has announced a partnership with Microsoft and foremost tech and solutions distribution giant, TD Africa to unveil Smartbox, office Internet…
- 1 Jun 2023
Customers Laud Polaris Bank Exclusive Banking Product
Polaris Bank, Nigeria's leading Retail Bank has announced the launch of its exclusive banking product aimed at serving its High Net-worth Individuals (HNIs) seeking innovative investment options in…
- 2 Dec 2014
Thomson Reuters, Microsoft Lead IP Protection Discussions to Promote Innovation
Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, & Microsoft have organized an Intellectual Property (IP) Protection event to promote…