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- 11 Oct 2023
Gates Foundation Announces $30m AI Investment for Africa
Bill Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced that the foundation will invest $30 million in a new artificial intelligence platform in Africa. Gates made the announcement,…
- 13 Sept 2016
Bill Gates Foundation to Boost Rice Production in Nigeria
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is funding six agricultural commodities value chains with emphasis on rice and yam production to ensure food sufficient in Nigeria. Bill and Melinda…
- 3 May 2024
NDPC Partners Gates Foundation, KPMG on Open Banking Frameworks
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), in partnership with Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation and KPMG are developing open banking frameworks in a move to deepen financial inclusion. L-r:; Anna…
- 8 Feb 2010
Ecobank Gets $6 Million from Gates Foundation
Ecobank has received a $6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote low-cost savings accounts in rural and poor neighbourhoods in Africa. The bank said the grant was part…
- 16 Nov 2017
Gates Foundation Open-source Tool Enables Digital Payment Interoperability
The new Mojaloop software, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is available, free-of-cost, for software developers to adapt and banks, financial service providers and companies to…
- 6 Jul 2023
Edo, Gates Foundation Train 500 Youths in Digital Skills for Workplace
The Edo State Government in conjunction with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have trained 500 youths in the state to build their skills for the future workplace. The one-day programme tagged,…
- 26 Jun 2014
ITU, Gates Foundation to Promote Global Adoption of Mobile Money
ITU has established a new Focus Group on Digital Financial Services to promote financial inclusion using information and communication technologies (ICT) in response to a proposal from the Bill &…
- 26 Jan 2009
Global Health Community Commits Over $630m for Polio Eradication
Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the British and German governments last week committed more than $630 million in new funds to fight polio, a crippling and sometimes…
- 9 Jun 2008
Microsoft Backs Poverty Eradication
Poverty eradication programme of the Federal Government is getting more boost as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over the week embarked on inspections of projects undertaken by the National…
- 4 Sept 2024
Bill Gates to Invest $2.8bn in Nigeria’s Healthcare, Nutrition, Agriculture Sectors
Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and Chairman Gates Foundation has announced a $2.8 billion investment aimed at enhancing the country’s healthcare, nutrition, and agricultural sectors. Speaking…
- 17 Mar 2014
Bill Gates Plans to Boost Healthcare in Northeast
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has indicated plans to boost primary healthcare and agriculture in Borno State and the rest of the Northeastern states of the country, was yesterday revealed.…
- 6 Sept 2016
Bill Gates Speaks to CNN Marketplace Africa on Plans for Africa
Following the announcement that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will deliver 100,000 chickens to some of the most poverty-stricken areas of Africa, co-founder Bill Gates sat down for an…
- 16 Dec 2016
ITU to Join New Global Initiative to Expand Financial Inclusion
Just over two years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined ITU to establish a Focus Group on Digital Financial Services for Financial Inclusion. The goal was to tackle some of the main…
- 26 Jun 2023
CBN, Bill Gates Partner on Financial Inclusion
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have finalised the plan to drive financial inclusion in the country. According to a statement from the apex bank, the two groups…
- 3 Dec 2014
MasterCard Launches Digital Financial Services Lab, $11m for R&D
MasterCard has launched a new innovation lab with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop financial services that help people build better futures. MasterCard said that across…
- 31 Oct 2017
BoI, Others to Partner on Financial Inclusion
The Bank of Industry (BoI), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) have gone into partnership to deepen financial inclusion and poverty eradication in…
- 25 Sept 2019
Dangote Claims Bill Gates Opened His Eyes to Nigeria’s Healthcare Issues
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, chairman, Dangote Group, said that he had no idea the level of neglect in Nigeria’s health sector until he had a conversation with Bill Gates. Dangote said on Wednesday…
- 12 Dec 2014
MasterCard Lists Expectations from Digital Financial Services Lab
MasterCard has expressed its expectations Digital Financial Services lab recently launched in East Africa with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In a telephone chat with…
- 8 Dec 2009
eIFL.net Gets Grant for Public Library Services in Nigeria, Others
eIFL.net has been awarded a three-year $1.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to spark the development of innovative public library services using technology in transitioning…
- 10 Sept 2014
Bill Gates offers Nigeria, Others N8Bn to Fight Ebola
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has said that it will commit $50m to support the scale up of emergency efforts to contain the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Nigeria and other countries trying…
- 6 Apr 2015
40 Fascinating Facts About Microsoft At 40
Microsoft as a software giant started by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, is showing new energy lately, even as it has ventured into mobile devices. With the release of Windows 10 and a…
- 22 Jun 2022
African Health Tech Start-ups Prompting Launch of $7M Innovator Support Program
Healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory has launched its latest market intelligence report highlighting promising African healthtech start-ups in supply chain. Spurred by these findings, a…
- 27 Dec 2020
Bill Gates Wonders Why Numbers of COVID-19 Deaths are Not High in Africa
Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has said he does not understand why coronavirus numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa. Recall that…
- 21 Jul 2015
AFI, MasterCard Host over 50 Policymakers & Regulators for Africa’s Financial Inclusion
The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) and MasterCard, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Monday implemented a first of its kind technical capacity building workshop…
- 6 Mar 2014
EFInA @ Financial Services Workshop Decries MM Low Awareness
Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) hosted a workshop with the theme of ‘Maximising the uptake of digital financial services through understanding consumers’ needs,’ but not without a…
- 17 Mar 2016
New African Blogger Awards Categories Highlight Social Issues
The third annual African Blogger Awards that opened for entries in mid-February has announced three new categories for social and digital influencers across the African continent. The new categories…
- 25 Jul 2023
African Governments Collaborate Tech Innovators to Strengthen Local Health Supply Chains - Report
Healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory has launched its latest annual market intelligence report highlighting a robust pan-African ecosystem of innovators improving the safety and efficiency of…
- 6 Feb 2020
Telecommunications Remains the Greatest Enabler to Financial Inclusion - Danbatta
Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman (EVC) Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has stated that telecommunications remains the best enabler in expanding the frontiers of financial…
- 6 Feb 2020
Telecoms Holds Greatest Promise for Financial Inclusion - Danbatta
Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman and chief executive (EVC/CE) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has stated that telecommunications remains the best enabler in expanding the…
- 9 Jan 2026
Bill Gates Pays Ex-Wife $8Bn Charity Payout in Divorce Settlement
American billionaire businessman Bill Gates, has paid $8 billion to his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates' charity, five years after their split over his affairs with other women. Bill Gates and Melinda…