Nigeria’s 54Gene closes $25m Series B funding to advance drug discovery through clinical trials
Nigerian health technology company, 54Gene has announced the closing of a $25 million Series B funding round. The round was ...
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Chinese ride-hailing company, DiDi is set to launch its services in Nigeria
There are indications that Chinese ride-hailing company, DiDi Chuxing is getting set to launch its operations in Nigeria, Africa’s ...
Nigeria ranks 142 in 2021 global internet speed as African countries dominate bottom 10
Nigeria has emerged 142nd out of 224 countries ranked for the speed of their internet broadband. This is according to a ...
Nigerian-led legal tech startup Definely raises £2.2m seed fund led by Microsoft
Nigerian-led legal technology startup, Definely has announced a £2.2 million funding round. The funding round was led by Microsoft’s venture fund, M12, ...
Seedstars and Financial Times launch $500,000 challenge for early-stage startups
Tech startup accelerator, Seedstars has partnered with global business news organisation, Financial Times to launch the first-ever Financial Times Sustainable Development Goals Challenge. The ...
e-Payment fraud and inflation saw value of PoS transactions in Nigeria drop by N49.8bn in August
Point of Sale (PoS) transactions in the country suffered a huge decline in August. According to data from the ...
Kenya’s Pezesha raises 7-figure sum in seed extension led by Nigeria’s Greenhouse Capital
Kenya-based pan-African fintech startup, Pezesha has announced it has closed a seven-figure sum in a seed-extending round. The round was led ...
Nigeria’s Flutterwave named ‘title sponsor’ of the 2021 Africa Fintech Summit in Cairo
Nigerian fintech company, Flutterwave, has been named a title sponsor of this year’s Africa Fintech Summit holding in Cairo Egypt. This ...
‘Lack of doctors the biggest telemedicine challenge’- MyMedicalBank CEO Ayo Adebamowo
Covid-19 exposed how grossly inadequate Nigeria’s healthcare infrastructure is. But the other side of that coin is that the pandemic also attracted significant ...
Nigerian government orders telcos to shut down mobile services in Zamfara to curb banditry
The federal government has ordered telecom operators in the country to shut down all communications sites in Zamfara State and in ...