Archives Tag: MasterCard

Scholarships

April 19, 2022

  Young Africans now have the opportunity to transform their educational dreams into reality through the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2026. Read more about Scholarships This prestigious global scholarship initiative identifies and nurtures talented, community-focused youth who demonstrate exceptional potential to become tomorrow’s changemakers. The program specifically seeks candidates whose educational aspirations are hindered by … Continue reading Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program 2026

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Scholarships

April 19, 2022

  The Mastercard Foundation has partnered with Arizona State University to offer fully funded professional certificate scholarships for African citizens. These online, self-paced programs develop in-demand skills in global management or supply chain management, with credits that can transfer toward future master’s degrees. Certificate completers will automatically be considered for fully-funded online master’s degree scholarships. … Continue reading Arizona State University-Mastercard Foundation Graduate Certificate Scholars Program 2025/2026

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  The Songhai/Mastercard Youth Agricultural Empowerment Scheme is designed to train and seed more than 3,000 young Nigerians in agriculture, particularly 70% young women, in the space of the next three years as “modern farm managers/technicians and agro-entrepreneurs.” Read more about Opportunities Applications for the Songhai/Mastercard Youth Agricultural Empowerment Scheme are currently invited for the … Continue reading The Songhai/Mastercard Youth Agricultural Empowerment Scheme

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  Are you a young Nigerian who works in the agriculture industry? Would you like to receive training that will improve your skills as an entrepreneur in this space? The Songhai/MasterCard Integrated Agriculture Bootcamp is an opportunity to master growth systems and methods in contemporary agribusiness. Read more about Opportunities About 3,000 persons will be … Continue reading The Songhai/MasterCard Integrated Agriculture Bootcamp 2025

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  Applications are now open for the MasterCard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge. This initiative is a follow-up to the MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity, an eight-year program that was launched in 2014. That earlier intervention supported 38 participants from 15 countries to build solutions that have positively affected the lives … Continue reading Apply for the MasterCard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity Agribusiness Challenge 2024

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  Wema Bank is organizing the Transforming Nigerian Youth Program, and this is in collaboration with MasterCard Foundation and the Enterprise Development Center, Pan Atlantic University. This initiative, according to its creators, is designed to raise a mass of entrepreneurs and business managers whose work will drive positive growth and development across Nigeria’s economy. It … Continue reading The Wema Bank Transforming Nigerian Youth Program

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  ALX/MasterCard Foundation are collaborating to offer a software engineering learning program for free to young people in Africa. If you want to build a career as a software engineer and you’d like to get training that would enable you to do so, here’s an opportunity worth taking advantage of. Read more about Opportunities This … Continue reading The ALX/MasterCard 2023 Software Engineering Scholarship

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  MasterCard is seeking applications from recent graduates who want to participate in its Graduate Launch Program. If you meet these criteria and you’d like to build a career at the intersection of technology and finance, here’s an opportunity you may want to explore. Read more about Opportunities As part of the MasterCard Graduate Launch … Continue reading The MasterCard Graduate Launch Program 2023 for Nigerian Graduates

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  CcHub and MasterCard Foundation are collaborating on a fellowship program for Education Technology (EdTech) startups in Nigeria. If you have founded and currently run an EdTech, and you’re seeking funding and technical support that will enable you to raise your startup’s performance, you should consider applying for this opportunity. Read more about Opportunities This … Continue reading The CcHub-MasterCard Foundation EdTech Fellowship

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Opportunities

April 19, 2022

  MasterCard is currently recruiting associate consultants who will take on roles within it as part of its Graduate Launch Program. If you are a recent graduate of a tertiary institution and you’d like to gain valuable experience with data-driven consulting projects, here’s an opportunity you should consider taking advantage of. Read more about Opportunities … Continue reading The MasterCard Graduate Launch Program 2023 for Young Nigerians

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Press Release

April 19, 2022

Jobberman, the single largest online job placement and training website in sub-Saharan Africa, has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to tackle unemployment in Nigeria. The partnership aims to train 5 million job seekers and place 3 million in dignified employment over the next five years. Jobberman and Mastercard Foundation also plans to train 200,000 job seekers … Continue reading Jobberman and Mastercard Foundation Team Up To Place 3 Million Nigerians In Dignified Employment by 2025

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Press Release

April 19, 2022

Leading e-commerce platform, Jumia, has rewarded the first winner in the Jumia-MasterCard Experience Competition. The winner, Mr. Wilson Anine, will have a lifetime opportunity to watch the UEFA Champions League matches in choice cities with other incentives attached. Speaking on the promo, the Chief Executive Officer of Jumia Nigeria, Massimiliano Spalazzi said the promo is … Continue reading Nigerian Customer wins an all-expense-paid trip to watch UEFA Champions League in Europe, courtesy of Jumia & MasterCard

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BUSINESS

April 19, 2022

Nigeria’s big businesses are sealing deals, and frontline startups are snapping up millions in big-time funding rounds. It’s the story of half a year in an economy’s life. Despite concerns that the country’s commerce and industry stands on wobbly foundations, investments continue to happen. Analysts say we should be cautious about the numbers; after all, … Continue reading Did You Know? Nigeria’s Biggest Business Deals So Far in 2019

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TECH

April 19, 2022

Interswitch is an indigenous fin-tech company that provides integrated digital payments solutions for African businesses. Founded in 2002 by Mitchell Elegbe and headquartered in Lagos, Interswitch connects banks in Nigeria and has over 11,000 ATMs on its network. Popular products by the e-commerce company include Verve, Nigeria’s most used payment card; Quickteller, an online payments platform; … Continue reading Interswitch Launches Quickteller Global Mall to Ease International Online Shopping

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Applications

April 19, 2022

The Mastercard Foundation is an organisation that is focused on improving the bad economic situation in developing countries through youth empowerment and provision of financial aid to people living in rural areas. The foundation was established in 2016 and has since developed numerous charitable programs through which they reach out to the economically disadvantaged mass … Continue reading Apply for The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity Challenge

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