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Aladdin Digital Bank, Closes a Debt-Financing Deal Up to $3.5 Million

Aladdin Scheme Ltd, the leading Ecosystem Digital bank in Nigeria has announced its successful closing of a debt-financing deal up to $3.5 million. This debt-financing will power its digital lending products in order to provide a wide range of loan options including; Nano, micro , salary , auto , SME loans et cetera. It has successfully launched its nano loans and microloans product last week and…
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Konga Food set to disrupt Nigeria’s online food delivery industry

On Monday, May 9, 2022, Konga Food, the online food delivery arm of Nigeria’s composite e-commerce behemoth Konga, will formally launch. The long-awaited development is set to raise the bar for service delivery in Nigeria’s burgeoning online food delivery industry, with Konga Food eminently positioned to follow in the footsteps of the Konga Group’s other thriving subsidiaries by providing…
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OnePort 365 Raises $5M In Seed Funding

OnePort 365, a Lagos, Nigeria-based digital freight forwarding company, raised $5M in Seed funding. The round was led by Mobility 54 (the Venture Capital arm of Toyota Tsusho and CFAO Group), with participation from SBI Investment, Flexport, Samurai Incubate, and ODX. The…
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquires 9.2% stake in Twitter

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2 per cent stake in Twitter, making him its largest shareholder. Mr Musk owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, which represents a 9.2 per cent stake in the company, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)13G filing released on Monday. The stake is worth $2.89 billion, based on Twitter’s closing price Friday. The announcement raised…
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