Websites We Love: Thrive Agric
Fresh out of Covenant University with a Bachelor’s in Biochemistry, Uka Eje never envisaged that his burning desire to solve problems in the agricultural sector would birth a solution for thousands of farmers around the continent. However, today, it should come as no surprise that all the steps he took towards identifying and tackling […]
Websites We Love: Eyowo
Eyowo is a digital payment solutions platform, which was launched in 2019 by Tomi Amao, to provide Nigerians with the comfort of carrying out their everyday transactions with just a phone, without having to visit a physical bank. Read more about Websites We Love To a large extent, Eyowo has succeeded in enabling Nigerians have […]
Websites We Love: Koniku
For a long time, man has been thrilled at the prospects of merging electronics with biological systems. This is widely believed to be the next step for Artificial Intelligence which would lead to the creation of efficient machines that possess key aspects of the human brain such as decision making, cognitive thinking, and pattern recognition. […]
Websites We Love: Elearn.ng
Elearn.ng started in 2017 to reduce the rate of unemployment in Nigeria. About a quarter of the population is out of work and 20 percent is underemployed. Elearn.ng seeks to solve this problem by providing the youth with access to vocational and technical skills that set them up for financial success. Read more about Websites […]
Websites We Love: Supermart.ng
One of the ways a nation can grow its economy is by encouraging the sales of homegrown foods. This is what Nigeria’s largest online supermarket and grocery delivery service, supermart.ng, set out to achieve when it emerged in 2015. Supermart was launched to not only encourage the purchase of local products but to also make […]
Websites We Love: Accounteer
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 […]
Websites We Love: Paynergy
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 […]
Websites We Love: Buypower.ng
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 […]
Websites We Love: Pricepally
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 […]
Websites We Love: Asuqu
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. […]
Websites We Love: Justfrom5k.com
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 […]
Websites We Love: Nairabox
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 […]
Websites We Love: MAX.NG
In 2014, two enterprising young men, Chinedu Azodoh and Adetayo Bamiduro, founded Metro Africa Express (MAX) initially to cater to logistic demands in Nigeria. They both gained the required experience before setting out on the path to provide efficient on-demand delivery services in Nigeria. Chinedu Azodoh is an alumnus of Illinois Institute of Technology and […]
Websites We Love: Asktoks.com
In a world where autism and other psychological disorders are largely misunderstood, a trained behaviour analyst is using her wealth of experience to create awareness about these disorders. This behaviour analyst, who goes by the name Toks Bakare, launched asktoks.com as a platform where parents of children with autism and other disorders can seek professional […]
Websites We Love: Nigeria Property Centre
A quick Google search with the keywords “rental properties in Nigeria” will bring up Nigeria Property Centre as the highest ranked website on the first page of the search results. This is actually great news for many Nigerians who are no strangers to the tedious process of acquiring a landed property (whether for rent or […]
Websites We Love: Printivo
It is never a pleasant experience when one seeks urgently to use a service but discovers there is no such service existing locally and has to resort to services available abroad. This was the need Oluyomi Ojo, Ayodeji Adeogun, and Ibukun Oloyede, founders of Printivo, recognised when they set out to found Printivo. They established […]