By Olusegun Oruame Accessible and affordable broadband is essential to promoting entrepreneurship as well as building required capacity among young people, the Executive Vice
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Africa Internship Academy celebrates two years of grooming Africa’s next-gen change agents
Africa holds a very high rate of youth unemployment. In Ghana for instance, about 120,000 young people graduate from various institutions with about 10%
HackJos 2018 holds this week in Jos
This year’s edition of the HackJos, the premier Hackathon, software competition and tech-entrepreneurs conference in north of Nigeria, holds in Jos, Plateau State, from
Nigerian government slashes cost of business registration to $14 (N5000)
By Chinedu James The Nigeria government has slashed the cost of business registration to five thousand naira (N5,000), about USD14 in order to
Nigerian government devoted to creating right environment for technology and innovation, says Osinbajo
By Chinedu James Nigerian government is committed to providing an enabling environment for technology and innovation to thrive across the country, Vice President Prof
Four ways entrepreneurs cope with the fear of failure
A new study has uncovered four strategies entrepreneurs use to cope with the fear of failure. Fail fast and often is the constant refrain
Nigeria: Why Silicon Valley is decamping to Algiers
The value of venture capital investment is fuelling Africa’s emerging technology landscape. Whilst Kenya’s Silicon Savannah ecosystem has been at the forefront of the
GE partners Lagos State, others to host technology conference for Nigerian start-ups in United States
GE , the world’s premier digital industrial company, this week partnered with the Lagos State Government and others to host a technology conference for
Ecobank launches Fintech Challenge competition for African start-ups
Ecobank, the leading pan-African banking group, is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter its Ecobank Fintech Challenge. Now in its second year, the initiative
Technology will grow faster with right politics, says Onyekwere, Nigeria’s ‘Father of Internet’
By Chinedu James Technology cannot make rapid progress without the right political decisions; and corporate Nigeria, beware! Technology will make a dinosaur of