Companies

Introducing BuffrSpace: The marketplace for on-demand workspaces 0
- Companies
- February 21, 2017
A thriving workforce is integral to a country’s economic growth, no doubts. For, Nigeria, various economic and infrastructural challenges are strangulating the workforce making it hard for optimal functioning. From high cost of housing, to erratic power supply, which leaves organizations settling for the expensive alternative of fueling generators, a city like Lagos, in Nigeria
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ToLet.com.ng raises $1.2m from Frontier Digital Ventures 1
- Companies, Money, Technology
- September 20, 2016
Lagos-based real estate classifieds start-up ToLet.com.ng today announces it closed a $1.2 million Series A round of funding from Frontier Digital Ventures. “The new funds raised will be used to improve the platform’s technology offering to both property seekers as well as that used by listing agents. The rest of the funds will be channelled into improved
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‘What new Nigerian ecommerce companies are doing wrong’ – Ope Adeoye 2
- Companies, Technology
- July 28, 2016
This is not to gloat or anything like that. Far from it. Rather, it’s a sincere expression of concern and a hope that it may provoke thought (and maybe consideration) in the right quarters. So recently, it’s been out that Konga is executing another round of layoffs as part of a “business development strategy“. This is
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Konga is laying off workers (again) for optimal productivity 1
- Companies
- July 22, 2016
Leading Nigerian online mall, Konga.com, has announced that it will lay off some of its employees, as part of its business development strategy whereby it reviews staff strength every 6 months. Konga has been doing this consistently over the last 2 years and usually lets go of staff that still go on and do great
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Sahara Energy, Kunle Afolayan launch entrepreneurship competition for film makers 0
- Companies
- July 19, 2016
Sahara Group – a leading African energy conglomerate with operations across 4 continents, in celebration of it’s 20 years anniversary has launched an entrepreneurship competition “Grooming Film Extraneurs…”, which seeks to connect budding film makers with stakeholders that can help hone their skills. This initiative is the maiden project under Sahara Group’s Extrapreneurship Framework which
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Moses Imayi: How the Skool Media is changing education with technology 0
- Companies
- June 10, 2016
Once upon a time in Nigeria, a child’s first board was the sand. Their first duster was their palm. Then, they proceeded to the slate and the chalk. Then to exercise books with large boxes for numbers; the ones with red and blue lines for alphabets. In secondary schools, much of the learning involved, and
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