| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.07.2024 | SMEDAN partners with NIPOST to lower logistics costs for SMEs in Nigeria | The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has said it is partnering with the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) to bring down the cost of logistics for SMEs in the country.
The Director General of SMEDAN, Mr. Char... |
| 14.05.2024 | Nigeria: Cybersecurity Levy - Matters Arising | The report that President Bola Tinubu has now ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to suspend the implementation of the proposed Cybersecurity Levy must come to many Nigerians as some sort of relief, but before we deal with the sense o... |
| 13.05.2024 | Nigeria: Presidency - Tinubu Suspends Cybersecurity Levy to Prevent Overburdening Nigerians | Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha, Michael Olugbode, Emmanuel Addeh and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the weekend, directed suspension of the implementation of the cybersecurity levy, as provided for in the Cybersecurit... |
| 01.11.2022 | Nigeria: Serena Williams' Investment Shows That Nigeria's Technology Sector Is Attractive - but Things Can Be Better | Nigeria is the leading African destination for foreign direct investments in technology startup businesses. Between 2015 and 2022, Nigerian technology startups have secured funding totalling just over US$2 billion. This is the highest amoun... |
| 13.05.2020 | After raising $10 million, Helium Health will offer loans to hospitals across Africa | Running a hospital is a business. But in Nigeria, and the rest of Africa, health providers struggle to secure external funding. Helium Health wants to fix that.
The Nigerian healthcare industry is a mess. For years, the government has negle... |
| 04.11.2019 | Beyond a name change, Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy may be onto something good | Share this article:
Beyond just changing its name, Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has evidently made other commitments to aid its drive towards a digital economy. And one of such commitments is a drastic change in ... |
| 27.09.2019 | Nigerian innovation centre CcHub acquires Kenya’s iHub | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-creation Hub (CcHub) has acquired Nairobi-based tech innovation hub iHub for an undisclosed fee.
CcHub explained in a statement yesterday that the deal will see iHub’s team become part of its wider central ... |
| 27.09.2019 | Nigerian innovation centre CcHub acquires Kenya’s iHub | Lagos-based innovation centre Co-creation Hub (CcHub) has acquired Nairobi-based tech innovation hub iHub for an undisclosed fee.
CcHub explained in a statement yesterday that the deal will see iHub’s team become part of its wider central s... |
| 28.06.2018 | A Social Innovation Tour of West Africa | Over time, with the proliferation of technology and nascent ecosystems, tech-enabled social innovation and entrepreneurship has grown in West Africa.
Across the region’s 15 countries, several startups have developed (and are still developin... |
| 19.02.2018 | NITDA demands to approve all public IT projects before they can be executed | Share this article:
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has commenced the registration and licensing of all government IT projects in Nigeria.
With this exercise, all private and public sector IT contractors for M... |
| 15.02.2018 | Techpoint hosted the biggest startup event in Nigeria; we couldn’t have done it without you | Share this article:
It has always been our dream at Techpoint to bring all startups in Nigeria together under one roof to discuss opportunities and challenges facing startups in Nigeria.
With Techpoint Build, we took a major step towards ma... |
| 22.12.2017 | Quality Time: Tunde Ibidapo-Obe talking about LawPàdí and making Nigerian laws more accessible. | Introduction
Babatunde, the founder of LawPàdí, is a lawyer. Now, anybody who knows me, knows I love talking but if there was ever a ‘talking Olympics’, I can guarantee — Tunde would win — hands down. But, the great thing about Tunde, he’s ... |
| 11.05.2017 | What it takes to build a business from scratch | Share this article:
Are you trying to build a business from scratch? And this doesn’t mean just flying around with ideas to make quick cash. The challenges are endless and one needs to be well prepared to weather the storms ahead as a start... |
| 27.01.2017 | Corruption in Africa can be fought and eradicated with technology | Share this article:
According to Transparency International, more than 6 billion people live in countries with a serious corruption problem. ONE, a campaigning and advocacy group estimated that poor countries lose $1 trillion a year to corr... |
| 26.01.2017 | BudgIT Recieves up to $1.5M Grant from Omydiar Network | BudgIT, a Lagos, Nigeria-based government transparency organization, recieved up to $1.5m three-year grant.
Omidyar Network awarded the grant.
The funding will be focused on enabling BudgIT to grow its organizational capacity, especially at... |
| 25.01.2017 | BudgIT raises $3 million grant from Omidyar Network and Gates Foundation | Share this article:
According to our investigations, there are indications that BudgIT has raised slightly over $3 million in grants from the Omidyar Network and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 2014, the Omidyar Network invested $... |
| 16.01.2017 | The 2017 budget barely makes provisions for tech development in Nigeria | Share this article:
On the 14th of December 2016, a ₦7.298 trillion budget was presented to the National Assembly by the president. Tagged the ‘Budget of Recovery and Growth’, it is 20.4% higher than the 2016 budget of ₦6.07 trillion.
Tech ... |
| 10.02.2016 | Want to access the National Budget in an easy-to-digest format? There’s an app for that | Share this article:
I have to admit, since it first went public in December 2015, I haven’t paid much attention to Nigeria’s 2016 budget. Not because I don’t care how the the government will be spending ‘my’ money in 2016, but primarily bec... |
| 22.09.2015 | 6 Golden Lessons on PR, for startups | Getting PR right is a big part of your startup success story.
The fast rise to success of IrokoTV, the recent rise to twitter stardom of Nigerian rapper, Vic O with his diss track and this unlikely US Mayoral candidate who won an election h... |
| 03.07.2015 | BudgIT Launches Paid Model For Businesses, Budgit.co | Share this article:
Civic technology organization, BudgIT has launched BudgIT for Business, a paid model of its current data analysis and infographics design offerings.
BudgIT Cofounder Oluseun Onigbinde, says the model is a strategic move ... |
| 19.06.2015 | Why Do People Misunderstand Incubation Spaces in Africa? | In his piece, Mark Essien states that incubators do not work optimally for African startups, and specifically mentioned BudgIT as not being properly “incubated.” Mr. Essien thinks an entrepreneur cannot be guided and by my understanding of ... |
| 13.05.2015 | Nigeria’s CcHub incubator announces latest ventures | On Monday, Nigeria’s social innovation centre in Lagos Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) announced three new ventures were added to its Incubation program.
Each of the ventures — Grit Systems, Mamalette, and Autobox — will receive seed funding betwee... |
| 13.05.2015 | Nigeria’s CcHub incubator announces latest ventures | On Monday, Nigeria’s social innovation centre in Lagos Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) announced three new ventures were added to its Incubation program.
Each of the ventures — Grit Systems, Mamalette, and Autobox — will receive seed funding betwe... |
| 12.05.2015 | Grit Systems, Mamalette and Autobox join the CcHub incubation programme | Share this article:
The Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) announced on Monday that three (3) new ventures have been admitted into its Incubation program. The startups will each receive seed funding ($15,000 – $25,000), mentoring, business development... |
| 12.05.2015 | From motorists to expectant mothers, the CcHub is driving innovation in Nigeria | Share this:
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| 11.05.2015 | CcHub Announces Three New Startups for its Incubation Program | Lagos-based co-working space, the Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), has announced three new startups admitted to its Incubation program.
The startups are:
Grit Systems: a local IoT startup developing web-enabled technology for controlling and gather... |
| 05.05.2015 | ‘Buharimeter’ to hold General Muhammadu Buhari accountable | Share this article:
As the popular saying goes, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, and as with previous democratic presidents of Nigeria, it’s definitely note going to be an exception for the incoming president, General Muhammadu Bu... |
| 25.03.2015 | Of Jumia, Konga And The Truppr Tech Football Tourney | Share this article:
In case you were wondering, which I’m almost sure you’re not, the Jumia-Konga rivalry runs deeper than who is the superior online retail store in Nigeria.
Last Saturday, Jumia defeated Konga by 2-0 at the Truppr Tech Foo... |
| 13.03.2015 | CcHub’s first graduate startup, BudgIT raises over $500,000 | Share this article:
The Co-creation Hub Lagos has officially announced the graduation of the first venture, BudgIT, from its incubation programme.
BudgIT is platform that specializes in demystifying government finance expenditure for the ev... |
| 13.03.2015 | CcHub’s first graduate startup, BudgIT raises over $500,000 | The Co-creation Hub Lagos has officially announced the graduation of the first venture, BudgIT, from its incubation programme. |
| 27.01.2015 | What Would You Do If You Were Nigeria’s Finance Minister? This App Will Show You | With oil prices at their lowest in six years, unsustainable subsidies, and dwindling foreign reserves, I sure wouldn’t want to be Nigeria’s finance boss. But what would you do right now, if you were Nigeria’s finance minister for one day? O... |
| 12.01.2015 | Moving an idea from eureka to execution | Share this article:
When someone plans to share and says: “I have an idea!” I am always keen to listen. I see a lot of folks out there guarding their ideas, citing the fear of predators who steal their ideas. They have not actually started,... |
| 30.03.2013 | Examining The Role Of Tech Startups In Africa’s Development | The new Facebook will come out of Africa! Ok, no. Maybe?
I read a piece somewhere on why the next Facebook or Google may not come from Africa and it provoked a reaction. Commentators, enthusiasts and the likes are quick to point out that Af... |
| 05.03.2012 | Is Technology a Silver Bullet in Solving Socio-economic Problems? | Don’t get me wrong, I am as excited about technology and I love to write and talk about it like the geek next to me. However, I have seen how we neglect some other vital issues and pursue technology as if it is the single solution to develo... |
| - | Nigeria is locked in an endless tug of war with its academics | Lagos, Nigeria – In the 22 years since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, academics in its public universities have gone on strike a record 15 times. The 16th one, a one-month warning strike declared on February 14 to press for increase... |
