Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, on Tuesday April 12th in Lagos unveiled its state-of-the-art Tier 3 data centre for commercial use, declaring its mission to help provide perfect uptime and peerless security for servers it houses as well as cloud services for businesses and government establishments across the country.
Awarded the high-end Tier 3 ANSI/TIA-942…
Obiora Okonkwo, Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, has called on the federal and state governments to use the Igbo apprenticeship system to address the scourge of youth unemployment in the country.
Okonkwo, who made the call in a keynote address delivered at the 2022…
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, has raised $7 billion to support his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
A Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public on Thursday disclosed that Musk received equity commitment letters of about $7.14 billion from a group of 19…
Nigeria’s equities market closed further in the green zone on Thursday, May 5, rising by 1.42 percent or N383billion as investors maintained their bargain appetite for some value counters earlier seen trading below analysts target prices.
The market reached a new high following significant gains in Guinness Nigeria, Nigerian Breweries, Conoil and others.
The Nigerian Exchange Limited All-Share…
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…
Capitalizing on the importance of Workers’ Day on Monday, Lastmile Financials Limited, a Nigerian fintech, has officially launched PayMasta, a new product to cater to the needs of Nigerian employees, seeking to cut their wages ahead of payday.
At the heart of PayMasta is…
*According to FT, because many fast-growing companies are privately held and do not publicly disclose detailed financial data, a ranking such as this can never claim to be complete
The inaugural Financial Times (FT) annual ranking of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies released today, ranks 12 tech companies among top 75 fastest growing companies in Africa.
The ranking according to FT, offers a…
AFEX, Nigeria’s commodity market player and a private sector commodities exchange, has been ranked number one in the Financial Times (FT) rating of Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies – Agriculture & Commodities category for 2022.
The listing of Africa’s…
Norebase, a Nigerian-based tradetech company launched in 2021, has secured a $1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate plans to build a plug-and-play company incorporation technology.
According to the company, the funding will broaden its trademark registration…
A Nigeria-based edtech startup, 9jacodekids, has raised a $350K seed funding round to expand its team and operations across Nigeria.
The founder and CEO, Ugochukwu Nkwocha, on Monday, confirmed the development in a post on the startup’s website.
Ripples Nigeria gathered that the startup featured in Ultima’s second season of Lion’s Den, a business reality show that gives new startup owners…