Twenty-three startups out of the 60 shortlisted in Africa for $4 million funding by Google are Nigerian firms.
The ”equity-free cash” comes under the tech giant’s funding scheme called Google Black Founders Fund (BFF) for startup tech firms in African nations.
Google’s Head of Startup Ecosystem, Sub-Sahara Africa, Folarin Aiyegbusi, who made this known in a statement yesterday, did not…
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Customers accessed loans worth N3.38tn at single-digit interest rates under the Central Bank of Nigeria’s intervention funds as of the end of June.
A member of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting, Aliyu Sanusi, disclosed this in his personal statement at the last MPC…
The Federal Government, on Thursday, presented certificates of registration and sales permit to authorised fertiliser dealers in Nigeria.
It stated that based on the registration and permits, non-licensed operators were not allowed to produce, blend, import, market or distribute fertilisers across the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ernest…
Stanbic IBTC has intensified efforts in providing financial products and services for businesses in the agro-allied industry.
The product development drive aligns with the bank’s determination to expand and support the agriculture and agro-allied industrial sector…
The price of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) basket of 13 crude oil samples stood at 101.04 dollars per barrel as of Wednesday.
This is compared with 106.41 dollars per barrel recorded on Tuesday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations…
Emirate airline has announced the reinstatement of its flight operations to Lagos, starting September 11.
The airline said this in an email to customers yesterday.
The development comes almost a week after the federal government released the sum of $265 million to foreign airlines in the country to settle outstanding ticket sales.
We are pleased to inform you that effective from 11th September…
The value of Point of Sale transactions in Nigeria has jumped 39 per cent to N8.03tn in 2022, according to data obtained from the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System.
The data showed that the aggregate PoS transactions between July 2020 and July 2021 were estimated at…
Amid the Federal Government’s N250bn intervention funds on the National Gas Expansion Plan, which intends to deepen usage across the country, data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics said on a year-on-year basis, price of refilling a 12.5kg cylinder of Liquefied…
Health-tech organisation, Wellahealth has been named among the 100 most impactful companies by the Norrsken Foundation.
The firm, according to a statement, was one of the two Nigerian companies that made the list, which included foremost startups from across the globe.
On the significance of the list, Norrsken stated, “The Impact100 is an annual list of the world’s most promising impact…