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Airtel Africa has launched a new Africa-wide brand campaign focused on building a deeper emotional connection with young people, including Nigeria’s globally acclaimed productive generation. The campaign includes a new strapline for Airtel: ‘A Reason to Imagine,’ driven by the insight that in Africa, imagination is the only qualification that matters and showcases Airtel Africa’s role in harnessing this potential by delivering relevant solutions to consumers that enhance digital and financial inclusion. The ‘A Reason to Imagine’ campaign highlights the status of Airtel as an enabler of young people’s dreams and ambitions, whatever these might be, and seeks to celebrate…
The company called for support to empower girls, enabling them to assume their rightful place in the global ICT ecosystem and contribute to technological advancement.
Konga Logistics, the digital logistics arm of Nigeria’s composite e-commerce giant, is investing billions of Naira in her ambition to take a commanding position in the challenging logistics sector in Africa. Stakeholders believe these challenges are responsible for the retarded growth of e-Commerce and other movement of goods and services in Africa. The company is budgeting N5bn annually for the next five years to achieve its ambition of becoming the leading logistics company in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. Indications are that the management of Konga Logistics has started taking delivery of new delivery assets from last quarter. Furthermore, the…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it is fully committed to the effective and efficient implementation of the Federal Government’s policy direction in repositioning the youth for the digital era job opportunities through a programme tagged: ‘Digital Job Creation for Youths.’ (DJCY). Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta who stated this in a statement made available to Digital TimesNG on Sunday, noted that this commitment is in line with one of the pillars of the National Digital Economic Policy and Strategy, (NDEPS 2020-2030), which is to further accelerate economic growth in digital literacy and skills, Danbatta disclosed…
10 startup companies will enter a 7-month equity-free mentorship program
Global leaders drawn from governments and international organisations joined cybersecurity experts recently at an International Conference on Cyber Diplomacy (ICCD), organised by Cyber Diplomacy Center, Bucharest, Romania, to discuss how international cyber norms that are widely accepted and followed by all actors in the digital space could be developed and promoted. The conference comes as the world becomes increasingly interconnected and reliant on technology, with the need for robust cyber norms and confidence-building measures becoming a pressing issue. Kashifu Inuwa, Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), who participated virtually during a panel session opined that the first step…
Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant, has been ranked among an exclusive list of 25 companies rated as the best place to work in Nigeria for 2023. The list, released by professional networking platform, LinkedIn, saw the Konga Group placed in rarefied company with the likes of Ernst & Young, MTN Nigeria, and Sterling Bank, among others. In arriving at the list of companies that made the list, LinkedIn disclosed that it had relied on eight criteria that have been shown to lead to career progression. The criteria include the ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company…
…Promises Nigerians smarter digitally driven financial products
OurPass Wednesday announced that it has rebranded to become a global neobank for businesses revolutionizing commerce in Nigeria. The one-click checkout company is providing businesses with access to banking, payment, and business management tools to enable them to start, grow and scale their businesses. OurPass launched in 2021 after raising a $1 million pre-seed led by Tekedia Capital with a goal of helping businesses increase their sales conversion rates by eliminating long entry forms at checkout using its one-click checkout solution. However, as the business observed the market and conversed with its customers, it recognised that beyond offering a niche…