Nexford University, an online university platform based in the United States, has raised $8 million in a Series A round.
New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital co-led the round. Bisk Ventures, Global Ventures, Future Africa, AMK Investments, and the Future of Learning Fund participated.
Also, Jason Palmer, General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners, and Greg Mauro, Managing Partner…
Fintech industry leader, Interswitch unveils future plans as it celebrates 20 years of success
September 8, 2022
Fintech industry leader, Interswitch, met with members of the media as they commemorated their 20th anniversary on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.
Present at the media parley was Mitchell Elegbe, Group Managing Director & CEO, Interswitch; Akeem Lawal, Managing Director…
Nigerian fintech startup, NowNow Digital Systems, has closed a $13M seed spherical to release new products
September 8, 2022
Nigerian fintech startup, NowNow Digital Systems, has closed a $13 million seed round to scale and expand its service offerings across Africa.
NeoVision Ventures led the round. Several other VCs and angels, including DLF Family Office and Shadi Abdulhadi…
African and Caribbean businesses have agreed to implement an action plan that will lead to strategic partnerships between the two business communities.
At the end of the AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 (ACTIF2022) in Bridgetown, Barbados, business and political leaders affirmed their commitment to remove the scars of the past and build a commercial bridge towards forging a prosperous…
Insecurity and lingering foreign exchange crisis have forced the capital importation into Nigeria to decline further by 23 per cent, findings by The PUNCH have shown
Capital Importation measures the aggregate of foreign investments into an economic entity within a given…
Leadway Assurance has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Civil Service Staff of Nigeria Cooperative Society Union to provide over 300,000 civil servants with affordable bespoke insurance coverage.
The insurer disclosed in a statement that the MoU between…
Currency in circulation fell by N107.08bn from N3.35tn in April to N3.24tn in July, latest figures on currency from the Central Bank of Nigeria has revealed.
According to the CBN, the CIC which stood at N3.33tn in May fell to N3.25tn in June.
The CBN recently warned Deposit Money Banks against accepting mutilated naira notes, explaining that they were not the real currencies in…
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has underscored the importance of investors education in protecting them from possible risks in sustainable finance investments.
IOSCO – the global body of securities markets’ regulators – has published a…
Chelsea have sacked Manager Thomas Tuchel after a shock loss to Dynamo Zagreb on Tuesday in the opening Champion League group game.
A statement by the coach on its website on Wednesday morning reads:
“On behalf of everyone at Chelsea FC, the Club would like to place…
Nigeria’s Pension fund assets rose to N14.36 trillion in July, this year, from N14.267 trillion the previous month.
This represent N100 billion or 0.7 percentage growth in one month.
This was made by in the National Pension Commission (PenCom) Pension Funds Industry Portfolio for the Period Ended July 31, 2022.
The report showed that a total number of Retirement Savings Account (RSA) holders…