Author: Tajudeen Adegbenro

Corporate Farmers International (CFI) collaborates with Lagos and Kebbi state governments and Chartered Institute of Stockbroker (CIS) to launch a world-class E-learning Academy Platform, Farm Support Service, and Eko School Agric to enhance agricultural productivity in Nigeria. The CFI unveiled the three new agricultural products and services to change the…

A study by the World Health Organization stated that if a person inhales smoke while cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it equates to smoking between three and 20 packets of cigarettes a day. More than half of the world’s population still cooks over an open fire. Annually, 4.3 million deaths…

Clafiya, a digital platform that links patients in rural and semi-urban areas to Community Health Workers (CHWs). It provides basic health services to people from the comfort of their homes. The co-founder of the company Jennie Nwokoye said With our USSD code, allows Nigerians with limited access to basic health…

GoMyCode, a Tunisian-based edtech startup has announced its expansion into Morocco, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, France, Ivory Coast, and Bahrain venturing into new markets after it secured funding in 2002. Yahya Bouhlel established the company in 2017. The platform started as a coding school before it expands its scope to provide…

A South African agritech company TonnUp has launched an online platform to enhance the local commodities market by assisting farmers in selling and marketing their produce in a transparent and organized manner. The new platform was launched in the first quarter of 2020, to assist farmers in controlling the marketing,…

Nigeria’s leafing center for learning Premier Agribusiness Academy (PAA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to enhance food security in Nigeria. The director-general of PAA, Francis Toromade revealed it during the signing ceremony conducted at IITS premises in Ibadan, Nigeria. He stated that that…

The UK’s development finance institution, CDC Group, and impact investor have announced a $100 million debt commitment to an agricultural conglomerate ETG to provide assistance to smallholder farmer operations across Africa and Asia. The debt commitment will assist the ETG’s food growth and agribusiness and will help ETG strengthen food value…

Nigeria’s Unity Bank Plc said it will provide more funding to not less than 120,000 Nigerian smallholder farmers in 2021 wet seasons farming. The managing director/CEO of the bank, Tomi Somefun explained this while he delivered the goodwill message at the flag-off of wet season farming and unveiling of the…

Thousands of Lagos state residents will soon have reasons to smile as a non-profit organization, Pink Food Bank has launched an initiative called “Wonder Box” to provide a free box of foodstuff to low-income retirees, widows, and households in the state. The project coordinator, Femi Fidodo stated that the program…

Research conducted on Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) at the University of Sheffield led to the development of a new medical device that enhances the accuracy of pre-term birth (PTB) diagnosis. The technology will be brought to market by a UK-based company, EveryBaby backed by South Korean Investment and assist in…

Nigeria’s largest maize aggregator Babban Gona has collaborated with the Mastercard Foundation to create job opportunities for 560,000 youths and women in Nigeria by 2022. Employment is a way out of poverty, the collaboration aims at empowering individuals in the agricultural value chain and support the growth of agribusiness making…

The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship South Africa has partnered with the UNDP Accelerator Labs to launch the Food Waste Innovation Challenge. Ten entrepreneurs will be selected to take part in a six-month go-to-market and investor readiness mentorship programme and will have access to the Branson Center’s Ignite programme to improve solutions…

A study by the World Health organization stated that fake drugs compromise around 10% of the global medicine market of almost $40 billion. A report in Afghanistan suggests that almost 40% of medicines and medical products get to the country illegally majority of which are fake. This leads to prolonged…

Kombo King, Cape Town-based food tech startup secured an undisclosed amount of funding from The Vumela Fund that was founded by Edge Growth and FNB Business. Fund, established by FNB Business and Edge Growth. The Principal at Edge Growth and lead dealmaker, Vuyiswa Nzimande explains the investment made in the…

Patient Health (Pty) Ltd, a Johannesburg-based health tech startup has launched Afrinurse, a platform that connects and supports nurses across Africa. The founder of the Patient Health, Sylvester Msuthwana explains that the aim of the platform is to empower and uplift nurses in Africa. “With this platform, we take care…

Major infectious diseases like COVID-19 can go undetected until they spread. It is not easy to spot the problem in a community because, detection of infectious diseases which is the foundation for surveillance and contact tracing can take hours, if not days. Scientists are currently developing a portable device that can be…

The United Nations Food Systems Summit has launched an innovative competition for SMEs and food startups. The competition aims to find the best SMEs around the world transforming food systems that are already in existence and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for…

Research published in Brain used new MRI techniques to display what happens in the brains of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the early stage of the condition. Scientists stated that this new technique may have the ability to predict the level of disability of an individual in the future.…

A team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that provides a less invasive and quicker way of sealing holes and tears in blood vessels, making use of an electrically activated glue patch applied through an invasive balloon catheter. This device may later…

Nigeria and The Netherlands have launched a four-year Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) to sustainably address major challenges in the Nigerian seed sector. The program was launched on Wednesday virtually at an event organized by Sahel Consulting that brought together stakeholders in the Dutch and Nigerian seed sector to improve Nigeria’s seed sector…