Industry Moves
Over the years, a considerable number of young internet entrepreneurs have moved on from startups they founded and we once associated them with. Techpoint Africa brings you the latest industry moves in the tech ecosystem.
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Yele Bademosi, founder of Microtraction, is joining Binance as director of Binance Labs
Following the appointment of the David Daser as the Director General of Plateau State Information Technology Agency (PSITA), nHub has appointed Theodore Longji as its new CEO.
Paga recently hired the co-founders and a top engineer of ChopUp, a Nigerian gaming company which Paga CEo, Tayo Oviosu is an open investor in. Here’s how it went down.
We had a chat with Olugbenga Agboola on his first day as the new CEO of Flutterwave. Here’s what he had to say.
Amidst confirmed rumours of Iyin Aboyeji’s stepping down from his CEO role at Flutterwave, the fast-rising fintech startup recently secured investment from global payments company Mastercard and other investors.
BudgIT GM Operations, Gabriel Okeowo has been appointed new CEO, in place of Oluseun Onigbinde who has enrolled into the Obama Foundation Scholars Programme at Columbia University, New York.
Akin Alabi has announced via Twitter that in the coming weeks, he will be stepping down as CEO of Nairabet. In a few weeks, I will be resigning as CEO of @NairaBET so I can fully concentrate on my campaign to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives. If I lose, my seat…
eTranzact International PLC has appointed Niyi Toluwalope as the Acting Managing Director, replacing founder and former CEO, Valentine Obi. Prior to his appointment as the acting MD, Toluwalope was the Chief Financial Officer of the company, a position he has held since 2011. Other executive positions affected by the management changes are Executive Directors, Sullivan Akala…
It is no longer news that Afro’s current Country General Manager, Aniedi Udo-Obong is leaving the company for Google. He will be taking up a new role in Google as the Program Manager, Developer Relations for Sub-Saharan Africa. Aniedi started off with Afro as the Chief Technical Officer until he was promoted to General Manager about…
WeChat has hired Idemudia Dima-Okojie to expand the WeChat brand in Nigeria and Ghana. Idemudia, who before this new role, was Head of New Product Development at Airtel Nigeria, is one of the Co-Founders of MoMo Nigeria. WeChat is owned by Tencent, a Chinese Investments Holdings company and the 4th largest internet company in the world just after Amazon,…
The Co-founder and former CEO of Easy Taxi Nigeria, Bankole Cardoso will be stepping down and as the CEO of the company. Bankole who has over the years built the Taxi company in Nigeria to grow from Lagos to Abuja. I sent him a mail after reading about his vacant position on Techcabal and he replied with…