Archives Tag: paga
Entrepreneurial Success Stories: Tayo Oviosu
April 19, 2022
Tayo Oviosu, a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, stands at the helm of Paga, a groundbreaking mobile payment company focused on transforming cash transactions in emerging economies. Born out of a vision to digitize cash and enhance financial access, Paga found its roots in Nigeria, marking the company’s inaugural market. Read more about Business Oviosu’s educational journey … Continue reading Entrepreneurial Success Stories: Tayo Oviosu
Top Digital Wallets In NigeriaÂ
April 19, 2022
Nigeria is becoming a cashless society where people buy goods, and services and pay for them online. They believe it is more convenient and secure to do so rather than carry cash around. Digital payment methods such as Internet banking, mobile banking, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), banking cards, and payment links are what made this possible. … Continue reading Top Digital Wallets In NigeriaÂ
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Tayo Oviosu, The Software Engineer/Techpreneur
April 19, 2022
There has been a tremendous shift to a cashless and digital economy because certain situations can prevent branches of commercial banks to shut down temporarily when circumstances demand it. This week’s profile is on Tayo Oviosu, software engineer, founder, and CEO of a prominent payment solutions provider, Pagatech, the startup that paved the way for … Continue reading Tayo Oviosu, The Software Engineer/Techpreneur
How Agency Banking Is Driving Financial Inclusion In Nigeria
April 19, 2022
Nigeria is home to one of the more vibrant banking industries in Africa. Some of its household names are emerging players on the continent; they’re setting up subsidiaries and acquiring smaller banks in the countries they target. Read more about FinTech But back home, they haven’t particularly captured all that’s on offer. Large swathes … Continue reading How Agency Banking Is Driving Financial Inclusion In Nigeria
Weekend Sports Roundup: Paga/MOC Relays
April 19, 2022
On Sunday, June 28th, 2021, athletes were presented with the last chance of making it to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this summer at the Paga/Making of Champions Relays in Yaba, Lagos State. Read more about Sports The big news from the event was Nigeria’s mixed 4x400m relay team qualifying for the Olympics in a … Continue reading Weekend Sports Roundup: Paga/MOC Relays
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Will Nigeria Produce More Fintech Unicorns?
April 19, 2022
On Wednesday, March 10, Nigerians awoke to positive news from their country’s vibrant tech sector. Flutterwave, a fintech startup that’s been around for just under five years, had secured investor backing worth $170 million in its Series C Funding Round. Read more about FinTech This deal, led by a New York-based private equity firm, … Continue reading Will Nigeria Produce More Fintech Unicorns?
Endeavour Collaborates With Stears Data
April 19, 2022
Over 70% Of Nigerian Startups And Scaleups Have Experienced Funding Challenges Due To The Global Crisis Endeavor, the global high-impact entrepreneurship network, has published a white paper in partnership with leading Nigerian data collection company Stears Data entitled “Protecting Nigeria’s Entrepreneurial Future”. The white paper outlines a number of proposals for Nigeria’s government policymakers and the business community, … Continue reading Endeavour Collaborates With Stears Data
Paga Acquires Apposit LLC, A US Software Company For Its Expansion
April 19, 2022
You know, innovation is not just creating something new but also partnering with people who are strong in your weakness so that you can take on more territories and do more impact things. That is the same for the tech world also. Read more about Tech The Nigerian fintech space continues to break new grounds … Continue reading Paga Acquires Apposit LLC, A US Software Company For Its Expansion
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Top 5 Brands We Love of 2019
April 19, 2022
Throughout this year, we have profiled some of Nigeria’s biggest brands. We have also shone our spotlight on emerging businesses, and reviewed startups disrupting the country’s old industrial landscape. As the year draws to a close, we take another look at some of these brands and recall the peculiar qualities that made us examine them … Continue reading Top 5 Brands We Love of 2019
Fintechs in Nigeria: Paga
April 19, 2022
There’s an army of unbanked people existing outside of Nigeria’s financial system. These individuals, numbering in the tens of millions, are saving money and conducting all their transactions with cash. The joys of electronic money transfers and the safety of bank accounts are a world away from them. It’s this vast population that Paga serves. … Continue reading Fintechs in Nigeria: Paga
App Of The Week: Paga
April 19, 2022
Despite the advancements that have taken place in the banking and financial sectors around the world, Nigeria still has a large number of unbanked individuals who rely heavily on cash. Thanks to the introduction of some indigenous Fintech solutions in recent years, this problem has been mitigated to some extent. One of these is Paga, … Continue reading App Of The Week: Paga
Websites We Love: Reel Fruit
April 19, 2022
Nigeria has so many untapped resources. One of them includes Agriculture. The sector is so broad that there are a plethora of investment opportunities waiting to be leveraged to further boost the economy of the nation. People can venture into anything from oil palm to cocoa and livestock rearing to fishery. Thankfully, there are at … Continue reading Websites We Love: Reel Fruit
Websites We Love: Paga
April 19, 2022
Paga is a mobile payments service which has quickly gained ground in the fin-tech space and is easily one of the most successful financial companies in the country. Founded by Tayo Oviosu in 2009, as a means of simplifying the mode of making payments in Nigeria, Paga boasts over 200 employees, 11,000 agents in different … Continue reading Websites We Love: Paga
Nigerian Startups Raised $178 Million from Investors in 2018
April 19, 2022
Nigerian startups continue to attract interest from investors, who are now staking more on them than at any other time in the short history of the country’s relatively young ecosystem. That’s what we can surmise from the Nigeria Startup Funding Report 2018, just recently put out by Techpoint Africa. The report indicates that a total … Continue reading Nigerian Startups Raised $178 Million from Investors in 2018
Brands We Love: Paga
April 19, 2022
It’s hard to find a financial services firm that comes closest to marrying new tech with good old on-site presence as Paga does. Its growing army of agents are stationed in towns and cities across Nigeria, providing people with some of the benefits they’d get from using a formal bank, but without the associated hassles. … Continue reading Brands We Love: Paga
