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Classic Men: Running Nigeria’s biggest Fashion eCommerce marketplace

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My mum raided her retirement account to fund my company – Femi Akinde

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10 wisdom nuggets on running a successful Nigerian Startup

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How former Investment Banking execs quit jobs to invest in tech-powered businesses

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Hotels.ng Founder, Mark Essien is proof that Nigerian Technical Founders can make great CEOs

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Meet the man changing the face of print production in Nigeria

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How Dele Odufuye’s ‘Tsaboin’ is using technology to save lives everyday in Lagos traffic

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Cash on Delivery and Free Delivery: Worst things to happen to eCommerce in Nigeria – Drinks.ng founder, Lanre Akinlagun

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Meet Seun Onigbinde, the man whose company will turn around government transparency

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How Josh Uma built Koziapp to fill the gap Nigerian Job Listing sites have created

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Meet Olumide Olusanya, a former medical doctor who quit the practice to sell groceries online

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Why Andela is paying Nigerians to become World Class developers

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These Nigerian entrepreneurs have one thing in common

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SuperGeeks want you to ditch your trusted phone repair guy at Computer Village

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5 African Tech Founders You Don’t Want To Ignore

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VConnect Office Gets Cool Graffiti FaceLift From Anth-Insecta [Photos]

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JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire Has A New Managing Director: Francis Dufay

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Meet Konga.com Developers in South Africa Office

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Abiola Olaniran on why Gamsole doesn’t build games for Nigerians

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I don’t see Konga and Jumia as Competition, I see them as Enablers – Lola Olusola





















Classic Men: Running Nigeria’s biggest Fashion eCommerce marketplace

It is not everyday you find men venturing into fashion, especially in Nigeria, where it is largely considered a woman’s space. However, two men — Emotu Balogun and Segun Afolahan — have managed to successfully carve a niche for themselves with Traclist, a fashion eCommerce marketplace. Generating revenue in excess of ₦80 million this year…

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My mum raided her retirement account to fund my company – Femi Akinde

Femi Akinde is the Founder and CEO of SlimTrader, the startup you probably never heard about until they raised $1 million from Interswitch’s ePayment Growth Fund. At its core, SlimTrader provides the eCommerce infrastructure  for businesses – airlines, hotels SMEs among others – with an online presence. This is probably why the company is not…

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10 wisdom nuggets on running a successful Nigerian Startup

So you really want to quit your whatever you are doing now and startup your own (online) business?  Your very own Nigerian startup. But do you have any idea what it takes to be an entrepreneur, especially in such a peculiar environment? Here are 10 gems of wisdom — from the horse’s mouth — to…

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How former Investment Banking execs quit jobs to invest in tech-powered businesses

If you convened a forum of local entrepreneurs to find out what their biggest challenge doing business was, chances are 9 out of 10 times, the general consensus would be funding. It’s not that there isn’t enough money in the market; there just aren’t enough willing investors within the ecosystem. This situation is exactly what Akinola Jones…

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Hotels.ng Founder, Mark Essien is proof that Nigerian Technical Founders can make great CEOs

Hotels.ng CEO, Mark Essien, is one of the few successful Nigerian startup founders with a technical background. His online hotels booking and reservation startup recently raised $1.2 million in funding from EchoVC and Omidyar Network. Techpoint caught up with Mark Essien at Hotels.ng’s new office building, where he shared his experiences building the company, from generating…

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Meet the man changing the face of print production in Nigeria

If you were on a budget but urgently needed to print a few 100 business cards, the traditional way would be to call on your “trusted” Shomolu printer to do the job. This is not without the risk of possible disappointment and, no doubt, extra charges for printing so unprofitable a quantity of business cards at such…

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How Dele Odufuye’s ‘Tsaboin’ is using technology to save lives everyday in Lagos traffic

Lagos, a city of over 22 million people, is inevitably plagued by outrageous traffic jams. Beyond the tons of time and productivity being lost everyday on the mean streets of Lagos, businesses and lives are being lost too. But one man -Dele Odufuye – an his team have created a uniquely Nigerian technology solution to help…

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Cash on Delivery and Free Delivery: Worst things to happen to eCommerce in Nigeria – Drinks.ng founder, Lanre Akinlagun

In a local  eCommerce industry that appears increasingly saturated, one man has managed to create a niche. He is Lanre Akinlagun, Founder of Drinks.ng. The one time iROKOtv executive started Drinks.ng out of a passion for drinking and as a means of addressing the frustration with getting large quantity of drinks in Nigeria. Techpoint spent an afternoon…

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Meet Seun Onigbinde, the man whose company will turn around government transparency

In the wake of the recently concluded General Elections, the average Nigerian citizen is beginning to care more about accountability and transparency of governance. People are expecting more accountability and asking more questions than social and traditional media can handle. Due to its real-time, on-the-go nature, Social Media can be a quite unreliable source of information. Traditional…

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How Josh Uma built Koziapp to fill the gap Nigerian Job Listing sites have created

With the plethora of job listing sites available online, the average Nigerian job seeker is somewhat spoilt for choice. The bummer is that their sheer number does not necessarily translate to more available jobs – they are mostly all listing the same jobs. Nevertheless, one cannot dismiss the huge role they play in providing job…

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Meet Olumide Olusanya, a former medical doctor who quit the practice to sell groceries online

Olumide Olusanya is Chief ‘Glootian’ at Gloo.ng, a pioneering online grocery business based in Lagos. Or Sparta, depending on how you choose to see it. You can hardly miss all the references to Sparta strategically placed all around the Gloo.ng office in Lekki, Lagos Island. One particular inscription reads: Heads down; Ignore the noise. Stay…

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Why Andela is paying Nigerians to become World Class developers

UPDATE (August 10, 2016): Iyin Aboyeji has exited Andela to co-found Flutterwave, a platform that allows merchants make and receive payments across multiple platforms. An ever ongoing debate around the local tech scene is on the existence or limited availability of highly skilled developers. While most may argue that Nigerian Developers are largely under-skilled, some would opine…

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These Nigerian entrepreneurs have one thing in common

You probably know a couple or dozens of successful or upcoming Nigerian entrepreneurs, do you think they have one or more things in common aside the money-making spirit? You say! If you are to draw up a list of Nigerian entrepreneurs in the tech space, taking a guess on your list – it could have the…

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SuperGeeks want you to ditch your trusted phone repair guy at Computer Village

SuperGeeks is a device repair and service platform that provides after-sales technical support to customers within the Lagos metropolis and suburbs. Founded in 2013 by the duo of Sam Uduma and Edmund Olotu, SuperGeeks has a focus of delivering quality customer service that is seriously lacking in the ecosystem TechPoint spent an afternoon with Co-Founder Samuel Uduma…

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5 African Tech Founders You Don’t Want To Ignore

… at Mobile West Africa 2015. Africa’s biggest gathering of mobile industry experts and enthusiasts is here in Lagos again. Now in its 5th iteration, Mobile West Africa is a mobile-focused interactive conference that has held annually since 2011. There will be presentations and showcases by stakeholders in the mobile industry, including telcos, OEMs, industry…

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VConnect Office Gets Cool Graffiti FaceLift From Anth-Insecta [Photos]

Graffiti bombing is fast becoming a broadly appreciated and legalised art-form in this part of the world; and Graffiti is fast becoming the choice wall art for the new generation of offices. We have seen Andela’s awesome wall art, and Konga’s beyond amazing Fela wall art as well. If you haven’t, please check here. Two…

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JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire Has A New Managing Director: Francis Dufay

Jumia has now formalized the appointment of Francis Dufay at the head of its subsidiary in Côte d’Ivoire. This announcement follows the appointment of Fatoumata Ba, with whom Francis Dufay led JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire since April 2014, to the position of Managing Director at JUMIA Nigeria. Having arrived in April 2014 as Co-Managing Director, he…

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Meet Konga.com Developers in South Africa Office

Nigerian ecommerce giant Konga.com gave a peek view into it’s Cape Town office in South Africa with a picture tweet from the company CEO, Sim Shagaya.     With the talented propeller heads of the konga cape town dev office. Yaba + Cape Town building tech for African SMEs pic.twitter.com/dfnyDJOBDW — SS (@SimShagaya) April 2,…

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Abiola Olaniran on why Gamsole doesn’t build games for Nigerians

Abiola Olaniran is Founder and CEO of Gamsole, a mobile gaming company based in Lagos, Nigeria. Gamsole has been developing  games solely for the Windows Phone store since April, 2013. The company generated some buzz recently, following the release of a teaser video for its upcoming endless runner, Gidi Run. Techpoint spent an afternoon with Abiola Olaniran where…

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I don’t see Konga and Jumia as Competition, I see them as Enablers – Lola Olusola

When things are going really bad, make sure you put on your lipstick. People are watching you and they want to see that you are confident – especially in times of trouble.” – Lisa Gersh Women nowadays are becoming more and more noticed for their exceptional success in the tangentially male dominated corporate world of global business…

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