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Websites We Love: Kia Kia
April 19, 2022
Many individuals and SMEs in Nigeria still have a hard time when it comes to accessing loans in Nigeria. This is due to a lack of credit information coupled with a high percentage of unbanked and underbanked individuals among the Nigerian population and the excessively complicated loan system typical of Nigeria banks. While several credit … Continue reading Websites We Love: Kia Kia
Websites We Love: Accounteer
April 19, 2022
Many businesses today experience stagnation due to the failure to keep accurate and trustworthy financial accounts. These businesses are unable to keep track of data that can enable them manage their organisations properly owing to a lack of knowledge of financial accounting and the inability to utilise complex accounting tools. Read more about Websites We … Continue reading Websites We Love: Accounteer
Websites We Love: Paynergy
April 19, 2022
If there’s any sector that needs an intervention in Nigeria, it is the power sector. Electricity has been a major cause for concern for many years, especially when it comes to its availability and the billing system used to regulate it. Coupled with the outrageous bills, prepaid electricity metres which were introduced in 2006 as … Continue reading Websites We Love: Paynergy
Websites We Love: Heels.com.ng
April 19, 2022
There is opportunity everywhere you turn. This is perhaps what crossed the minds of Ikenna Okonkwo and Udoka Uzoka when they decided to venture into a female-dominated industry. To Ikenna Okonkwo, this was “the perfect idea”. He had just gotten back from the US, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Business Administration and was … Continue reading Websites We Love: Heels.com.ng
Websites We Love: Buypower.ng
April 19, 2022
Electricity is one utility that most can’t do without. Yet, paying electricity bills in Nigeria comes with a lot of hurdles that make the process altogether difficult. For one thing, people have to visit the nearest distribution companies to pay their bills or buy electricity tokens in spite of busy schedules. Read more about Websites … Continue reading Websites We Love: Buypower.ng
Websites We Love: Amplify.com
April 19, 2022
Amplify was one of the most innovative fintech startups to launch within the past decade. Maxwell Obi and Segun Adeyemi got the idea for the startup while they were enrolled for entrepreneurship training at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in the year 2015. They founded Amplify to provide social banking solutions and a … Continue reading Websites We Love: Amplify.com
Top 10 2019 Websites We Love
April 19, 2022
Over time, Connect Nigeria has curated information on resourceful websites in Nigeria. This owes to the fact that there’s virtually a website for everyone, purpose, and goal. As the year comes to an end, we’ve compiled a list of 10 websites by and for Nigerians which we think are worth checking out. In no particular … Continue reading Top 10 2019 Websites We Love
Websites We Love: Farafina Books
April 19, 2022
Farafina Books is one of Nigeria’s foremost publishing houses with several titles on its list including the work of renowned author Chimamanda Adichie. Founded in 2004, Farafina Books was founded on the premise of “Telling Our Own Stories,” to Africans and the rest of the world and disrupting the Nigerian publishing landscape. Read more about … Continue reading Websites We Love: Farafina Books
Websites We Love: Pricepally
April 19, 2022
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Nigerians spend 56.4% of their household income on food, the highest in the world. This, added to the fact, that there is an increasing rate of road traffic in urban cities of Africa that make the purchase of food more expensive than ever. Pricepally was set up … Continue reading Websites We Love: Pricepally
Websites We Love: Cassava Republic
April 19, 2022
In a time when Nigerian was still advancing digitally, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf and Jeremy Weate took the giant leap to start a publishing company. This company, Cassava Republic, is now home to some of Nigerians most promising writing talents and prides itself on its reputation for bringing some of the reputable books we know today to … Continue reading Websites We Love: Cassava Republic
Websites We Love: Asuqu
April 19, 2022
Asuqu was born out of the need to create a platform where creative individuals could thrive and offer their services in exchange for money. The founder, Rabiu Musah started the platform after he realised that the creative industry, which is saturated with great talents, only accounted for about 5% of Nigeria’s GDP at the time. … Continue reading Websites We Love: Asuqu
Websites We Love: Justfrom5k.com
April 19, 2022
If there is one thing most Nigerians know, it is that it can be quite difficult finding a good artisan for hire. The prospect of finding an artisan who is reliable and knows his/her job well is often slim. As a result, most people have to search for a long time and sift through several … Continue reading Websites We Love: Justfrom5k.com
Websites We Love: Nairabox
April 19, 2022
Nairabox was introduced as a digital wallet solution to make transactions more seamless and prevent the issues that arise with carrying cash from one place to another. The online service was founded by Tokunbo Adetona, Damilola Jegede and Jay Chikezie. How it All Began The founders, who have backgrounds in financial technology, started their careers … Continue reading Websites We Love: Nairabox
Websites We Love: Lifebank
April 19, 2022
Lifebank is a blood sourcing and delivery service set up to tackle the problem of blood shortage in Nigeria. The platform was founded by Temie Giwa-Tubosun, a Nigerian-American health manager and a 2017 Quartz Africa Innovators honoree. She set up Lifebank to facilitate the delivery of blood across different hospitals in Nigeria amidst the problems … Continue reading Websites We Love: Lifebank
Websites We Love: Travelbeta
April 19, 2022
Travelbeta was founded in 2015 by three cofounders Onyeka Akumah, who worked as an executive for Jumia, Wakanow, and Konga, Wale Ayorinde, who is the company’s CTO, worked in Silicon Valley for over 13 years, and David Asuku, who held executive positions at firms such as Wakanow and HollowayTravels. The platform is on a mission … Continue reading Websites We Love: Travelbeta
