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Kenyan Peter Tabichi is a teacher at Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani Village, situated in a remote, semi-arid part of Kenya’s Rift Valley. This science teacher and Franciscan Brother has emerged the winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2019. This entitles him to the grand prize of $1,000,000. Peter was…

Just a few weeks ago Nick Kristof of New York Times reported that an 8-year old Nigerian refugee won the 52nd New York State Scholastic Championships tournament for kindergarten to third-grade players. The refugee was homeless, living in shelter in Manhattan. Now the tide has now changed. The chess champion, Tanitoluwa Adewumi (Tani…

The Tony Elumelu Foundation officially released the list of 3,050 African entrepreneurs selected for the 2019 cohort of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme. The Foundation began accepting applications for the fifth cycle of its Entrepreneurship Programme in January this year The applicants were selected out of the 216,000 submitted applications…

Nigerian waste management startup, WeCyclers, has been awarded the African Development Prize of €200,000 by The King Baudouin Foundation. The Prize will allow WeCyclers to develop further their business and increase their impact at national and international level. By 2100 Africa will account for 5 out of 10 biggest cities in the…

Mrs Oyeyimika Adeboye has been appointed the first female Managing Director of Cadbury Nigeria since its establishment in Nigeria 50 years ago. The appointment takes effect from April 1 2019. Mrs Adeboye joined the board of the company in November 2008, as Finance and Strategy Director, West Africa. “Adeboye’s appointment…

Banks only build branches, or so the story goes. Except for Guaranty Trust Bank Plc; the foremost African financial institution, which has been at the forefront of several innovative products and services, recently completed and opened the first digital playground for children in Nigeria. Located in Lekki, Lagos State, the…

It all started in India in 2018 but it is now here in Nigeria. It is Uber Lite. Uber Lite is a simple version of the rider app that saves space, works on any network, and on any Android phone. It launched in South Africa and Kenya in January this year.…

Alternative power company, Daystar Power has announced a $10 million investment from Verod Capital Management and Persistent Energy Capital LLC. The solar energy company has also lined up an additional $16 million in debt financing to accelerate its expansion across West Africa. The deal will allow Daystar Power to expand its offering…

Don’t ask me why but Apple decided to launch a new set of next-generation wireless earbuds, AirPods 2 ahead of its event on Monday where it is expected to unveil a series of new subscription services including TV streaming. Just a couple of days ago, the tech giant launched new versions of the…

CEO and co-founder of RxAll, Adebayo Alonge, has led his startup to win the 2019 Hello Tomorrow deepTech contest. He competed alongside 4500 deepTech startups from across 119 countries in the world to win the grand prize of €100,000. He is the first African to win this contest. The Grand Finals took place…

Life as a small business owner and entrepreneur is difficult, and one of the toughest challenges to face is cash flow. As Forbes Africa note, finances are one of the main reasons businesses fail. Making the most of your opportunity and creating success for yourself can be helped along by looking to save…

Social Media giant, Facebook, has launched a new Artificial Intelligence tool to detect non-consensual intimate images (sometimes referred to as revenge porn) with a view to curbing its circulation. Facebook already has a policy of removing this kind of images but this new AI tool will find this content more quickly.…

This is the first time an organisation has gone this far to celebrate women in technology in Lagos. And I must say it is a beautiful initiative. Techcabal’s is putting up a multi-sensory exhibition, AUDACITY, to profile 50 women in the Lagos technology ecosystem from different backgrounds and at different…

According to a Disrupt Africa report, DigsConnect, a student accommodation marketplace in South Africa, has raised R12 million ($830,000) in funding to expand its team and product offerings. Founded in 2017, DigsConnect links hundreds of landlords with student tenants, and students with other students. DigsConnect started as an idea from…

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has launched an app to drive the ease of doing business in Nigeria. The app, reportgov.ng app, complements the Reportgov website, which is Nigeria’s Official Public Service Complaint website for complaints and feedback for the service of any Ministry, Department and Agency of the…

Boomplay, a leading music streaming and download service in Africa has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Warner Music, making available the label’s catalog to millions of fans in Nigeria, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Founded in 2015, Boomplay is owned by China-based Transsnet…

Marvel Studios has dropped a new trailer from the much anticipated Avengers:  Endgame movie coming up next month. It is just a bunch of old clips from the last movie because Marvel is understandably trying to give a lot away before the movie release. Any clip from the new movie…

Pan African ecommerce site Jumia has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange. Rumours of this action has been on for quite some time but according to Techcrunch, this is the first time that the CEO Sacha Poignonnec is confirming the action. Though the…

The GSMA today announced the first speakers for the 2019 Mobile 360 Series – West Africa conference, which will take place 16-17 April at the Radisson Blu Abidjan Airport Hotel in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The event sponsors include Mastercard (Headline Sponsor), Visa (Industry Sponsor) and Intelsat (Supporting Sponsor). “The mobile…

Olumide Olusanya, CEO and founder of Gloo.ng has announced the new business that the ecommerce online business would be pivoting to. Olumide early in the year, announced that he was shutting down the ecommerce business and launching a new business. The new business is a B2B e-procurement business called Gloopro. Publicly…