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Meet the Gokada team, creators of the “superheroes of Lagos traffic”
You see Gokada bikes almost everywhere in Lagos traffic but what do you know about the team that makes it happen? Find out…
9mobile has a new Chief Financial Officer
9mobile has announced the appointment of Mr Phillips Oki as its new Chief Financial Officer.…
Why Terragon Group CEO, Elo Umeh waited 8 years before raising funding for his startup
Elo Umeh is the CEO and founder of Terragon Group, an enterprise software company with a range of data and marketing technology products that focus on the African market. He shares his entrepreneurial…
Meet Emmanuel Omene, the Nigerian game developer cashing out big on Upwork
Emmanuel Omene is a game developer with a top-rated profile on international freelancing platform, Upwork. This article tells the story of how he achieved this feat despite many challenges.…
From marketer to businessman: How Akin Alabi built NairaBet from scratch
Online sports betting has become something of a lucrative subset of the billion-naira lotto industry. As a pioneer in that space, NairaBet needs no introduction, neither does its founder, Akin Alabi. …
16 great books many successful Nigerian tech founders and CEOs live by
Over the past 3 years, I have interviewed more than 50 successful founders and CEOs within the Nigerian internet and tech startup space through my Founder’s Table series. A recurring theme that …
Former GoMyWay CEO, Damilola Teidi is now Director of Incubation at CcHub
Yesterday, the Co-creation Hub took to Twitter to announce Damilola Teidi as its new Director on Incubation. Damilola takes over from Tunji Elesho, who before now also doubled as — and still rem…
The accidental tech CEO: From banking and finance to core IT
Even on the off-chance that the names Bola Akindele and Courteville Business Solutions don’t ring a bell, as long as you’ve had to register a vehicle in Nigeria, you must have at least hea…
These passionate individuals are working to improve STEM education in South-East and South-South Nigeria
It is the dream of many secondary school students in Nigeria to gain admission into an institution of higher learning immediately after school, but not for Samson Goddy. After completing his secondary…
How an inventor from Aba is working to transform Nigeria’s hardware culture
In a classroom at the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), a lecturer teaching the theories and principles of engineering mentioned an equation and its constitu…
Why Muyiwa Ogungboye sold everything he had to seed-fund eStream Networks
As the CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest enterprise internet service providers, Muyiwa Ogungboye prides himself in his capacity to endure hardship. But things were so difficult in the earlier days…
These men hawked Nsukka honey and ran a Danfo business to save their IT company
A decade ago, Chimezie Emewulu and Chibuzor Onwurah left behind impressive academic degrees and a promising professional career to pursue their passion for solving problems using technology. They foun…
A well-funded business with poor execution will still die — Collins Onuegbu, founder Signal Alliance
Fresh from completing his mandatory youth service in Jos, Plateau state, Collins Onuegbu decided it was in his best interest to relocate to Surulere, Lagos which he considers the hub of the tech indus…
I started my multi-million dollar business with ₦8250 — Yele Okeremi, CEO Precise Financial Sys.
Yele Okeremi is the CEO of Precise Financial Systems, a software development company. He shares his insight on building a successful IT business.…
In a few years, tech-driven African companies will be a big deal across the world — Ayeni Adekunle, BHM Group CEO
Ayeni Adekunle is the founder and CEO of BHM Group, a media company under which popular brands like NET and BlackHouse Media are subsidiaries. Often referred to as Ayeni The Great, he is a Pan-African…
Meet Tayo Oviosu, the man whose financial services company has wider reach than all banks in Nigeria combined
Tayo Oviosu is the CEO and founder of Paga, a mobile payments company he founded in 2009 to enable universal access to financial services for Nigerians.…
6 exceptional Nigerians who work at Apple
Before they bought Chinedu Echeruo’s startup for $1b in 2013, no one associated Nigerians with Apple. But there are exceptional Nigerians working at Apple…
The best entrepreneurs are born; wise ones learn to be better — Kola Aina, founder Emerging Platforms
Kola Aina founded Emerging Platforms to build customised home-bred tech solutions to African problems. He shares his thoughts on entrepneurship…
We considered giving up as often as the hair on our heads are countable – ToLet.com.ng founders
About five years ago, four young graduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife got together to build a pioneering online real estate platform. Originally trading as Estatenode, the business lat…