Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Seun Onigbinde’s BudgIT competes with other African startups for $70,000 at the SME Empowerment Innovation Challenge 0
- Entrepreneurs, Event
- October 12, 2015
HiiL Innovating Justice, a subsidiary of Hiil- an advisory and research institute for the justice sector has collaborated with the Ford Foundation to launch the SME Empowerment Innovation Boot camp in Lagos on October 29, 2015 at the Co-Creation Hub, Yaba Lagos State. Earlier this year, an innovation challenge called SME Empowerment Innovation Challenge was kickstarted
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Wecyclers: The Social Enterprise That Gives You Money For Your Waste 0
- Companies
- April 13, 2015
Across the slums of Lagos, a startup’s bikes have removed 600 tons of recyclables in return for rewards. By Rob Matheson | MIT News Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Bilikiss Adebiyi MBA ’12 witnessed a waste epidemic in the city’s slums, where many of her relatives lived: Plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and other waste accumulated
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