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: Klasha
Klasha, a fast-fashion retailer company, started in 2017 to cater to women aged 18-28 in Nigeria, Ghana, Francophone countries, and more countries in Africa. The company was founded by Jessica Anuna, a young entrepreneur with a background in e-commerce, fashion, and manufacturing. Read more about Websites We Love She started Klasha to connect young millennial […]
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: Korapay
Payments will always be a big deal for many individuals and businesses in Nigeria. In fact, the World Bank ranks Nigeria as the largest remittance recipient in Sub-Saharan Africa and the sixth-largest among lower-middle-income countries. Despite this, making online payments to Nigeria can be quite a challenge. That is why, in recent times, many fintech […]
Websites We Love: Doctoora
For a long time, the healthcare sector in Nigeria has been plagued by the constant migration of healthcare professionals to other countries in the search of greener pastures. This is mainly due to the unfavourable working conditions that abound in the health care sector and other challenges with access to facilitates and patients. Read more […]
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: Kia Kia
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 […]
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: Amplify.com
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 […]
Top 10 2019 Websites We Love
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 […]
Websites We Love: Farafina Books
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 […]
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: Cassava Republic
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 […]
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. […]