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Hotels.ng partners Akwa Ibom State government on remote internship
Hotels.ng has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Akwa Ibom state government to provide remote internship for residents of the state in a bid to promote local tech talent. The hotel booking company has two remote internship programmes every year for participa...
Victor Ekwealor
Victor Ekwealor
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6 years ago
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8 things I learnt from Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng
August's AMA with Mark Essien, the founder of Hotels.ng is done and it was amazing! For the first time, we had a studio audience and it turned out nicely, thanks to our super-creative production team. Earlier in the month, we asked a few trivia questions about Mark acr...
Omotola Omolayo
Omotola Omolayo
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6 years ago
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Ask Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng, anything on Techpoint AMA Live Sessions
Get a chance to be a part of our studio audience. Follow Techpoint.ng on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Answer the questions. Watch out for the final announcement See you there! Techpoint AMA Live Sessions (#TPAMA) is coming up on Thursday, August 10, 2017, where I w...
Omotola Omolayo
Omotola Omolayo
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6 years ago
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Behind the scenes of SPARK and Hotels.ng investment in ogaVenue
Last week, SPARK and Hotels.ng’s announced a $45,000 investment in ogaVenue, an online events venue booking platform. The investment is remarkable, as it comes at a period when Nigeria's economic downturn does not encourage investment in local startups. Many have ap...
Ifeanyi Ndiomewese
Ifeanyi Ndiomewese
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7 years ago
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Hotels.ng, Printivo and 34 other Nigerian Startups make it to SpeedUP Africa's bootcamp in Ghana
SpeedUp Africa, a 4 Day Growth & Investment focused Startup Bootcamp for African startups has announced the list of startups that made it for this year's competition in Ashesi University, Ghana. SpeedUP Sessions will involve one-on-one sessions with Silicon Valley ...
Emmanuel Ogunsola
Emmanuel Ogunsola
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7 years ago
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134 million Foreign Tourists in Africa by 2030: Who's winning?
Kenyan Deputy President, William Ruto said the number of tourists to Africa is expected to reach 134 million by 2030, and that will be from 56 million in 2014. Ruto further said there's the need to tell the true African story, broadening our perspective while also chang...
Yinka Awosanya
Yinka Awosanya
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8 years ago
Founder's Table
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 Essie...
Múyìwá Mátùlúkò
Múyìwá Mátùlúkò
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8 years ago
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Checkout Hotels.ng's awesome new office space in Yaba [PHOTOS]
The last time we reported about Hotels.ng, the company was hosting a Machine Learning Hackathon for local developers. Before that, the online hotels booking platform was in the news for raising $1.2 million in Series A funding. A remarkable milestone for the Mark Essie...
Adewale Yusuf
Adewale Yusuf
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8 years ago
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Developer? Hotels.ng Invites You to its Machine Learning Hackathon
Hotels.ng will be holding a machine learning hackathon on Saturday, 1st of August to develop an algorithm that will efficiently predict which users are most likely to cancel a hotel booking. In a press release by Hotels.ng the reason for the hackathon was explained as, ...
Yemi Johnson
Yemi Johnson
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8 years ago
Startups
Hotels.ng raises $1.2 million in funding
Hotel reservation startup, Hotels.ng, has secured an investment of $1.2 million from international investors EchoVC and Omidyar Network. This is the startup's first investment funding round, following a 2013 seed investment of $225,000 from Jason Njoku's Spark.ng. Sta...
Múyìwá Mátùlúkò
Múyìwá Mátùlúkò
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8 years ago
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Want To Hire Geniuses? Here's An 8-Step Guide...
...But maybe vary your questions on every turn. Hotels.ng founder, Mark Essien sent out the strangest tweet on Monday night. Looking to employ full-time genius. Job description: Be smarter than 95% of people in world. Send me email mark@hotels.ng. 10 words only. —...
Daniel Orubo
Daniel Orubo
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8 years ago
Nigeria General Elections
Vote And Get A Free Hotel Reservation - Hotels.ng
Mark Essien's online hotel booking platform, Hotels.ng is now offering a chance to win free hotel reservations to people who participate in the in the upcoming national elections. The startup is giving this incentive to encourage and improve participation in the coming ...
Odunayo Eweniyi
Odunayo Eweniyi
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9 years ago
Startups
Hotels.ng to sponsor first hackathon in Northern Nigeria
The largest Hotel Booking Agency in Nigeria, Hotels.ng has entered into an agreement to be sponsor for the first hackathon in Northern Nigeria. Code name: HackJos. The HackJos Hackathon to be held in Jos, Nigeria is a free, 3 day-long coding marathon for developers to c...
Odunayo Eweniyi
Odunayo Eweniyi
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9 years ago
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