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The 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 is currently taking place at Tokyo Big Sight, in the Ariake district of Tokyo’s Koto-ku. The car show started on Friday October 27  and will continue till Sunday, November 5. The Tokyo Motor Show 2017 is be a comprehensive exhibition that includes passenger cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles,…

Okechukwu Ofili is the co-founder and CEO of Okadabooks, a book reading and publishing platform that has powered over 14,000 books, 137,000 readers and a million book downloads. They have bootstrapped their startup for the past three years and are now in the process of raising money from investors. Okadabooks…

Akin Jones is is the co-founder and CEO of Aella Credit, a provider of financial employee benefits. Aella credit is working towards eliminating the hassle of standard loan applications and enabling employees to borrow at competitive and fair rates through their employers. Akin Jones is one of the few startup…

Jumia Nigeria has announced the dates and partners for its biggest sales event of the year, Jumia Black Friday 2017! This year’s event is billed as the Jumia Black Friday Festival  and will run for 31 days from November 13th to December 13th2017 on www.Jumia.com.ng. It will be the largest shopping event in Nigeria with up…

myRunner  has emerged the winner of Seedstars Harare for 2017. https://twitter.com/Seedstars/status/923982663639339008 So the startup whose vision is to change the experience of bus travel, will represent Zimbabwe and compete for a chance to win the $1 million equity investment among other prizes. myRunner was conceived in 2015 and launched in September 2017…

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant robots citizenship. And Sophia the humanoid robot is the first humanoid robot to get the citizenship. Remember this was the same robot that had a recent interaction with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed at a UN event themed ‘The future…

The Seedstars event for Zimbabwe is scheduled to take place on the 27th of October 2017 at Impact Hub Harare This is the second time this event is taking place in Zimbabwe. The very first took place in 2016 where Dr CADx emerged as the winner. Here are the ten startups competing…

Ride-sharing company, Uber, has partnered with Barclays Bank and VISA to commence the issuance of a credit card. The Uber credit card. Applications for the new Uber card will commence on the 2nd of November 2017. According to David Richter, global head of business and corporate development, Uber; “We are always…

Chika Nwobi, founder of Level 5 Lab (L5Lab) has been appointed as a non-executive Director of Unilever Nigeria Plc. He was appointed to the Board on 19 October 2017 and his appointment takes effect from 1 January 2018. Unilever Nigeria Plc. is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of foods and…

22 year old Ibrahima Ben Aziz Konate from Cote D’Ivoire has won the Anzisha grand prize. This announcement was made by African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation at the seventh annual Anzisha Prize awards gala. Ibrahima Ben Aziz is the founder of Poultry D’Or, a poultry business that often has over 500 sales…

The African Leadership University (ALU) and GE Africa announced today the launch of the ALU Africa Industrial Internet Program. Powered by GE, the program combines the best of GE’s technical expertise with ALU’s unique learning model in a 12-month professional training program that merges the essential business and technical skills necessary for African professionals to…

When it comes to working in financial positions, traditionally an accounting qualification was one that would be sought after. However, this type of educational background fails to provide much assistance when it comes to investing knowledge beyond managing the treasury, which is essentially the cash balance available to the business…

With loud cheer, great pride and awesome achievements, leading online classifieds site OLX.com.ng recently clocked 5 years in Nigeria- HURRAY!!!!! The milestone was celebrated with an intimate gathering of different stakeholders including loyal OLX users and media partners at an exclusive event held at Terra Kulture Arena in Victoria Island.…

Rabobank – the world’s leading food and agricultural bank – announces its global activation program, ‘Kickstart Food’ to accelerate the transition to a sustainable food supply. One of the first steps in this program will be the launch of a one billion dollar facility to initiate land restoration and forest…

Orange officially announced the launch of its brand in Sierra Leone. As of today, Airtel Sierra Leone becomes Orange Sierra Leone. The acquisition of Airtel Sierra Leone was finalised in July 2016 by Orange, together with its Senegal-based partner Sonatel, allowing the Orange Group to reinforce its presence in West Africa. Following…

Startup Grind Lagos is set to host her monthly meetup on Saturday, 28th of October 2017. The theme for this month’s meetup is “is your Grind buzz worthy?” This month’s guests are Afua Osei, one of the Amazons behind She Leads Africa, and Tunde Phoster, an innovator and Brand Doctor This…

After giving Safaricom two weeks exclusive selling rights of the New OPPO A71, the device is now open for sale to all company dealers in the country. The move comes after the device retailed for two continued weeks at Safaricom shops at a retail price of 19,990ksh after its official…

Popular crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, has announced that it will now offer a platform for selling products. Founded in 2008 Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell, the site is one of the first crowdfunding sites. It allows people to request funds for an idea, charity, or start-up business. Now the company is now…

On today’s episode, we have Kendall Ananyi, co-founder of Tizeti which operates as Wifi.com.ng.  Wifi.com.ng provides unlimited uncapped internet to users for less than $25 per month. I met Kendall Ananyi in his office in Lagos. We had a good debate about the state of startups in Africa, funding, challenges…..…

The management of the merged Tigo and Airtel companies in Ghana have named Roshi Motman the new Chief Executive Officer of the merged company. Before this announcement, she was a General Manager of Togo Ghana. With the merger successfully completed, Airtel CEO Lucy Quist leaves the company. This also makes the…