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151Ride-hailing startup GoZem has launched operations in Togo
After raising $900,000 in funding in June, GoZem launched in November and is for now focused on motorcycle taxis in Togo, but will add...
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Congolese Surgeon Dr. Denis Mukwege For His Commitment To Combatting Rape And Sex Slavery
The Congolese people have been humiliated, abused and massacred for more than two decades in plain sight of the international community Congolese...
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Young Nigerians Are Very Optimistic about their Future.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced the results of its Goalkeepers Global Youth Poll, an opinion poll conducted by Ipsos...
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Google Launches 3 Free Wi-fi Stations in Abuja
Google launched its free public WiFi initiative called Google Station yesterday in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja making it the second city in Nigeria after...
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HP Will Train 100K People in Africa Over the Next 3 Years Through the HP Foundation’s HP LIFE program
HP announced a new commitment at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 to reach 100,000 learners across Africa over the next three...
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Bill and Melinda Gates recognize 6 Nigerians as 2018 “GoalKeepers” for Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
The Gates Foundation, in her second edition of the “Goalkeepers” event, recognizes six Nigerians as “Goalkeepers” for the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]....
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Nigerian media organizations have launched a fact checking program called CrossCheck Nigeria, to combat fake news in the country.
24 million Nigerians use Facebook every month, even more people use the company’s messaging app WhatsApp as their source of primary communication....
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Ethiopia will launch its first satellite in 2019. But with the help of China.
China Everywhere. But that’s not the focus for today so let’s remain guided. Ethiopia seems to be on a buzz, from electing...
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President Ramaphosa’s new minimum wage will see a menial job cleaner in SA earn as much as a bank official in Nigeria
Earlier this week, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the national minimum wage bill, a move part of efforts by...
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Nigeria’s ‘Best TV station of the year’ just doctored a video cut from its breakfast show ‘Sunrise Daily’
Channels Television, Nigeria’s most popular and trusted news broadcaster has recently been accused of editing a video cut from it’s breakfast show...
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Boko Haram kill around 100 Nigerian Soldiers In Attack On Army base
Since 2009 Islamist militant group Boko Haram has waged a violent campaign in Nigeria’s northeast to impose their version of Islamic law on the country....
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NEDG & BON Will Host The 2019 Nigerian Presidential Election Debate
The 2019 political election in Nigeria is probably going to be the most watched election the country has had in recent times, not because...
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Lack of Oxygen kills over a quarter of a million Nigerians each year, LifeBank wants to change that.
LifeBank is a healthcare technology and logistics startup based in Lagos, Nigeria. Founded in 2016 by Temie Guwa-Tunbosun, the company mobilizes blood donations,...
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#OjuelegbaShawarma : Lagosians Rallying Around a Cause.
On November 12, an influencer by the handle of ‘[Badt_Boi_] on his social media, publicized and gave praise to the shawarma he...
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Nigeria’s President Buhari wants to keep the country united with wrist bands
When last did you wear a wristband? For me, it was in 2014 when I strolled into a ‘redeem’ church close to...
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190 Universities Launched 600 Free Online Courses. Here’s a list of Them
In the past six years or so, over 800 universities around the world have created more than 10,000 of these Massive Open Online Courses...
