Female Fintech Founder: Oluwatosin Olaseinde
Tosin is a chartered accountant with 10 years of experience in accounting, audit, financial management and taxation. She is the Founder/CEO of Money Africa and Ladda. Money Africa is an ed-tech platform that teaches people financial literacy, how to cut down excessive spending, grow their income and build wealth sustainably. Read more about Fintech While Ladda […]
Buy Now Pay Later With Cdcare
The Working-class in Nigeria is paid monthly. A system that may or may not be an issue for some. For the former, the person may have several needs to be met. And as such can’t purchase some items without saving several months for them. Another option would be to get a loan through banks and […]
Abeg Rebrands To PocketApp To Expand Its Social Commerce Platform
Abeg is a Nigerian social payments startup and a subsidiary of Piggytech Global limited. The startup announced that it had been granted approval in principle (AIP) from the Central Bank of Nigeria to run as a mobile money operator. This was after it met the specific regulatory requirements. It is now expected to receive the […]
FinTech: Do We Need More FinTech In Nigeria?
2020 report data from the Enhancing Financial Innovation Access (EFInA), shows that 36% of adults in Nigeria( 38.1 million people) are excluded from financial services. A problem fintech startups generally seek to solve. In Nigeria, fintech startups are dime a dozen. They are about 144 catering to the banked, unbanked and underserved. However, this figure […]
Building The Largest Emergency Respondent Networks In Nigeria
In developed countries, there are emergency numbers for citizens to call when they run into a situation that requires urgent attention. Especially during health crises, accidents and crimes. Sadly, that’s not the case with Nigeria. Hundreds of people have died from road accidents, cardiovascular diseases, and pregnancy complications. Simply because there are no emergency responders […]
Top Tech Gifts For Tech Bros And Sis
For tech bros and tech Sis, any gift will simply not do. While they may appreciate a pair of shoes or jewellery. Most of them work from home so you need to get them what they can use every day. Or rather something that resonates with what they do. It shows you are thoughtful and […]
Female Fintech Founder: Odunayo Eweninyi (PushCV, FirstCheck, And Piggyvest)
Odunayo Eweniyi is well known in Nigeria as a successful tech start-up expert. She has founded several startups with other techies. These include PushCV, PiggyVest and FirstCheck. She is also popular as a women’s rights defender and the empowerment of girls and women. She helped to raise about$1.1 million in support of the #EndSARS movement […]
Best Dollar Virtual Cards
Debit cards and credit cards whether virtual or physical are useful for making payments. However, It is not convenient to use a Nigerian Naira debit or credit card to make payments in dollars. Especially if it’s to pay for the services of international service providers like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, or Spotify. That is not […]
Farm Crowdy, Nigeria’s First Digital Agriculture Platform
Farmcrowdy is a Nigerian agric tech that provides funds to small-scale farmers in Nigeria. It was co-founded by Onyeka Akumah, Akindele Phillips, Temitope Omotolani, Christopher Abiodun, and Ifeanyi Anazodo in 2016. To connect farmers with their sponsors to increase food production. Read more about Tech FarmCrowdy has been able to do this by crowdsourcing funds […]
Overwood Capitals Helps Nigerians Invest Safely
In the past few years, the Nigerian economy has been spiralling downwards. A situation that has left quite a lot of Nigerians dejected. But that is not only the case. When the economy of a country experiences a downturn, it causes a whole lot of other problems like inflation, poverty, unemployment, a high rate of […]
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, The Other Brain Box Behind Flutterwave
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, is a Nigerian entrepreneur, co-founder and former CEO of Flutterwave. A fintech startup he cofounded in 2016 with Olugbenga Agboola. Read more about Tech Perhaps it is the most successful one among his many startups. Since it has attained the unicorn status with a valuation of $3 billion. Early life Iyinoluwa was born […]
Four Crypto Debit Cards For Payments
In recent years, fiat debit cards have become an acceptable means of payment. With the massive adoption of cryptocurrency, there are now crypto debit cards. Issued by crypto exchanges and payments companies in partnership with Mastercard and visa. Even with the crypto ban in Nigeria, people are still able to buy, sell and trade crypto […]
What To Do When Crypto Crashes
Volatile is the word that best describes both bitcoin and cryptocurrency. It means their prices can suddenly rise and fall. For instance, bitcoin fell from $30,500 to about $23,500 within four days this month. Subsequently, it still went down to $20000. In that same period, Ethereum’s price plunged by 31 per cent. The whole crypto […]
Artificial Intelligence Startups In Nigeria
The potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has not fully been realized in Nigeria. As a result of inadequate knowledge about AI, lack of infrastructure, power supply and access to data. According to the Oxford Insight Government AI Readiness, Nigeria ranks 138 globally and 20 in Africa, behind South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Artificial Intelligence has […]
Nigerian HealthTracka Closes $1.5 Million Seed Funding
It is common knowledge that before a doctor or physician treats a patient, he must first determine what exactly is wrong. This is called diagnostics, the focal point of healthcare. Sadly, in third-world countries like Nigeria and most African countries, there is hardly adequate healthcare infrastructure for screening and testing of patients. Ultimately leaving a gap […]
Thepeer Raises $2.1 Milion Seed Round
The debate on whether Africa needs more fintech has been ongoing for a while now. Considering that it is now over 600 fintech in Africa. Most fintech offers similar services to their customers. Some of which include payments, neo banking, lending, investing and trading. Apart from that, they also have wallets in common. Read more […]