| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.04.2025 | Cascador 2025: Applications Now Open for Nigeria’s Premier Entrepreneurial Development Program | Lagos, Nigeria – April 1, 2025: Cascador, Nigeria’s leading program for developing transformational entrepreneurs, proudly announces the opening of applications for its 2025 cohort. Now in its seventh year, Cascador has established itself a... |
| 13.06.2023 | African Diaspora Network Elevates Ten Early Stage African Entrepreneurs with the Sixth Annual Builders of Africa’s Future Award | “We are excited to be supporting another cohort of outstanding African entrepreneurs with the necessary tools to catalyze growth for their enterprises and drive impact in their respective communities,” - Almaz Negash, Founder and Executive ... |
| 08.12.2021 | Techpoint Awards 2021: And the nominees are… | Share this article:
[Updated on December 15, 2021]: Payourse requested to be removed as a finalist in The Most Outstanding Crypto Exchange category.
[Updated on December 14, 2021]: The Most Outstanding Logistics Startup 2021 was renamed Mos... |
| 04.10.2021 | How Nigerian edtech startup, Tuteria, is connecting learners to tutors in Nigeria | Share this article:
Over the years, education has evolved from self-education through self-directed play and exploration, acquiring a vast knowledge of plants and herbs for agricultural purposes to teaching certain expectations and behaviou... |
| 27.05.2021 | These 11 startups are preparing African kids for the future | Share this article:
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” – Kofi Annan.
Education is vital for any society looking to make any form of progress. In Africa, ... |
| 09.03.2020 | What you should know about education technology (edtech) models in Nigeria | Share this article:
Evolving technologies usually present new ways of doing things. And when this relates to leveraging technology and innovation to enhance the quality, coverage, and potential of education – edtech – it presents new method... |
| 26.11.2019 | Sim Shagaya’s uLesson African edtech startup raises $3.1M | Nigerian founder Sim Shagaya is back with a new startup — uLesson — that has raised a $3.1 million seed round led by TLcom Capital.
The venture is integrating mobile platforms, SD cards, culture-specific curriculum and a network of tutors t... |
| 13.09.2017 | Bunmi Otegbade: Build the Future. | A year ago today, I handed a microphone over to Mark Zuckerberg for the first time in my life. I joined little known Facebook in 2004 when it was still universities only, as an alternative to our own Baylor Information Network (BIN) — I jus... |
| 29.05.2017 | Nigerian startup Tuteria wins Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Award | Nigerian online tutoring network Tuteria took home a cash reward of £25,000 after winning the top Engineering Innovation prize at the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa competition.
Tuteria connects students to qualified tutors closest to... |
| 29.05.2017 | Nigerian startup Tuteria wins Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Award | Nigerian online tutoring network Tuteria took home a cash reward of £25,000 after winning the top Engineering Innovation prize at the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa competition.
Tuteria connects students to qualified tutors closest to ... |
| 10.11.2016 | Delivering education through technology in Africa | Share this:
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| 27.10.2016 | Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards Finalists 2016 are revealed | Share this:
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| 03.10.2016 | 6 African startups win $500,000 from Facebook’s Internet.org Innovation Challenge | Share this article:
Internet.org has announced the winners of the Innovation Challenge in Africa awards in the categories of education and economic empowerment. The six winners all present solutions that will help create a more connected wo... |
| 15.08.2016 | Healthcare app Kangpe declared winner of Lagos Seedstars World competition [update] | Healthcare platform, Kangpe, has been crowned the winner of the Seedstars World pitching competition in Nigeria. The event took place on 11 August at Seedspace Lagos.
Kangpe is a mobile app which allows users to access over 500 doctors, ar... |
| 15.08.2016 | Healthcare app Kangpe declared winner of Lagos Seedstars World competition [update] | Healthcare platform, Kangpe, has been crowned the winner of the Seedstars World pitching competition in Nigeria. The event took place on 11 August at Seedspace Lagos.
Kangpe is a mobile app which allows users to access over 500 doctors, aro... |
| 12.08.2016 | Personal doctor app, Kangpe wins Seedstars Lagos 2016 | Share this article:
Following the vetting of over 100 applications, which were narrowed down to 8 startups, Seedstars Lagos finally culminated in a pitch competition, held yesterday August 11, 2016.
The competing startups were DavtonLearn, ... |
| 12.08.2016 | Doctor-in-your-pocket, Kangpe is the winner of Seedstars Lagos | Seedstars World, the team organising the global seed-stage startup competition has been on an African tour, and they were in Lagos last night for this year’s iteration. After receiving around 100 applications, the team selected eight startu... |
| 09.08.2016 | These are the 8 startups that will pitch at Seedstars World Lagos 2016 | Eight. That’s the number of startups that the Seedstars World team picked out of 100 applications to pitch on August 11. The selected startups are all less than 2 years old, have raised less than $500,000 in funding, have an MVP, traction a... |
| 09.08.2016 | Here are the 8 Nigerian startups competing at Seedstars World Lagos 2016 | Share this article:
After vetting over 100 applications, 8 startups have finally been selected to participate in Seedstars World Lagos preliminaries. The 8 startups will pitch during a closed door session for a shot to represent Nigeria at ... |
| 04.08.2016 | 30 startups finally selected to pitch at Aso Villa Demo Day finals | Share this article:
Following the long wait, the Aso VillaDemo Day finals are finally close by, as the organisers have announced 30 startups who will pitch their ideas to the president on a date that will be communicated shortly
3. Congratu... |
| 22.03.2016 | These are the startups CcHub is showcasing at its Growth Academy Demo Day | Heard about Growth Academy? It’s a 3-month long accelerator programme run by Co-creation Hub and funded by Intel. Like any other accelerator programme, each of the accepted startups gets mentored by industry bigwigs and domain experts. The ... |
| 22.09.2015 | Godwin Benson talks about his hyperlocal marketplace for Tutors | For many, all they need to learn Aerospace engineering is a laptop and enough data. For a lot more people however – like me – learning new skills takes a whole lot more. Patient guidance of a human instructor and also a feeling of being inv... |
| 08.06.2015 | Nigeria-based Neighbourhood Peer-Education Platform, Tuteria, Launches Tomorrow | Tuteria, a Nigeria-based online platform that connects people seeking to learn with those who can teach the subject or skill in their neighbourhood, will launch tomorrow.
Developed by Godwin Benson, a graduate of systems engineering from th... |
