Congratulations to Anihunlola Olayemi a.k.a Yemi Legend (Founder of Yemi Legend Small Chops) on his 50th birthday. Yemi is indisputably one of the finest providers of exquisite small chops and varied platters for events, serving the length and breath of Nigeria. Anihunlola Olayemi (Founder Yemi Legend Small Chops) Yemi Legend is an Electrical Engineer turned professional caterer, and his legendary dishes are epic in party circles for both visual appeal and taste.
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Co-Founder & CPO at ThankUCash, Simeon Ononobi has just launched the Store Smart suite of solutions, which include: The Store Smart Mini: a retail solution and seats on a mobile phone and records all sales – this has been upgraded to the Store Smart Mini Plus to now have Payment via NFC payments collection and finally; and The Store Smart Max, which comes installed on a POS with Opay, Interswitch, Nomba, Netop or ErrandPay terminals. Simeon Ononobi (Co-Founder & CPO , ThankUCash) Says Simeon: “Whichever you choose works like magic and helps with Inventory management, Stock management and alerts, product…
Ejide Akinbiyi (Co-Founder & CEO ,MaterialsPro) Meet Ejide Akinbiyi, the visionary co-founder and CEO of MaterialsPro, an eProcurement platform that is simplifying the strenuous task of sourcing building materials, saving time and money for both home builders and contractors. Wanting to drive innovation and make a strong impact on Africa’s construction market by addressing fragmentation in the sector, Ms. Akinbiyi launched MaterialsPro in 2021 as an on-demand eProcurement and supply chain platform for home builders and building contractors that provides convenient access to building materials, logistics and cost initiatives. MaterialsPro is not the standard eCommerce site, but a platform specifically designed with…
WeTech, last Saturday, hosted its inaugural Female Founders Conference, whose objective is for founders and investors to get connected, hire talent, and raise funding. 🎥 @wetechofficial/ IG Speakers cut across women who have raised institutional capital, venture investors, emerging founders and tech leaders. At the 2023 event, female founders got to pitch their startups. while investors judged, chose, and presented awards to the winner of a grand prize. Wetech Female Founders Confererence 2023 According to the WeTech team: “Saturday was awesome! 🚀 We poured our hearts into bringing the Female Founders Conference to life, and we’re absolutely thrilled that you…
(R): Sesinam Dagadu (Founder and Chief Technology Officer, SnooCODE) SnooCODE Limited have signed an agreement with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to collaborate on a project aimed at reducing the environmental impact of single-use packaging from eCommerce deliveries in Ghana. The project, tagged “Innovative Packaging Solutions for Sustainable and Secure E-Commerce Deliveries,” aims to develop and pilot reusable packaging and security code-activated delivery bags to reduce waste and increase accountability in the delivery process. As part of the project, SnooCODE proprietary technology will be used to optimise delivery routes, ensuring that distances traveled by deliverymen are reduced,…
Countries around the world rely on the creative economy to produce jobs and growth, to stimulate innovation, to fuel tourism, and to promote culture Positioning itself in this background, the Losing Daylight exhibition (December 10 to 15, 2023 at the Ecobank Pan African Centre, Lagos-Nigeria) welcomes visitors from across the globe to embark on a multisensory journey through the rich history of Nigeria’s film industry – —all unveiling the captivating allure that has shaped the vibrant industry that is now recognises as Nollywood. Losing Daylight is a collection, restoration, preservation and exhibition of significant memorabilia and artefacts from Nigeria’s film history. Including imagery, film…
Solape Akinpelu (Founder, Hervest) 📸 SolapeAkinpelu Last weekend, Solape Akinpelu (Founder & CEO, Hervest) was, this past weekend, honoured with the Women in Tech Award, at the Art of Technology Lagos 5.0 (AOT 5.0) conference. Hervest is a a digital platform that provides financial inclusion for females by enabling easy access to savings, impact investments and credit financing for smallholder women farmers and women-owned/ led SMEs in Nigeria. Says Solape: “A heartfelt thank you to the AOT Team for this incredible recognition. I am beyond grateful to be acknowledged among such brilliant minds in the tech community. This one is…
Aliko Dangote (President & CEO, Dangote Group) 📸© Sunday Alamba/AP Sunday Alamba/AP Nigeria’s Dangote refinery has received its first cargo of 1 million barrels of crude oil from Shell International Trading and Shipping Co (STASCO), bringing the start of operations closer after years of delays. The delivery from Shell represents the first tranche of a total of 6million barrels of crude due to be supplied to the facility from a range of suppliers, the Dangote Group said in a statement on Friday. The crude will enable the refinery to process an initial 350,000 barrels of crude oil a day into…
Winners of the 2023 Zenith Bank Tech Fair Zecathon have just been announced, and presented with their prizes, as follows: Grand Prize Winner: Sync (Spurt!) – N20m (Twenty million Naira) – plus an opportunity to pitch investors and access the Seedstars Mentorship Hub.Ist Runner up : Suwk – N15m (Fifteen million Naira) – inclusive of a scholarship into the Seedstars mentorship hub.2nd Runner up : Tribapay – N10m (Ten million Naira) – complemented by a scholarship into the Seedstars mentorship hub. Winnings were presented by forefront Zenith Bank Plc representatives Ebenezer Onyeagwu (GMD/ CEO); and Executive Directors – Akin Ogunranti,…
(3rd, R) Osita O. Nwoye (founder, Techcircle) hosts ‘OYA MAKE WE GROOVE 7’ in London 📸@Techcircle Here’s introducing #OyaMakeWeGroove, a tech party for African-focused founders, funders, and everyone in between. It’s first 2023 event (tagged ‘London Stopover’) happened in London on December 01, 2023, while the next iteration took place on December 09, 2023 in Lagos, Nigeria. ‘Oya Make We Groove 7’ – London #OyaMakeWeGroove was created by Osita Nwoye, founder of Techcircle – a company that works with African founders to build tech-enabled businesses/startups by providing all necessary support, leveraging relationships and knowledge it has gathered over a decade working…