The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), through its dynamic subsidiary, the Office for Nigerian Digital Innovation (ONDI), is set to launch the 2024 Digital Nigeria Innovation Challenge. This three-stage competition will run from September 11 until October 23, 2024. The final pitch event will take place on October 23, 2024 in Abuja. According to […]
Read MoreThe Nigerian Government just launched a N100 million Artificial Intelligence Fund in collaboration with Google Africa to support Nigerian startups leveraging AI to build innovative solutions. The AI Fund, which will be coordinated by NCAIR Nigeria is a critical step in taking advantage of future technologies to develop homegrown innovation that addresses local challenges, accelerates […]
Read MoreAs the countdown to the maiden edition of ‘Oja Oge” Pop-up marketplace by Ecobank begins, over 100 top rated fashion, beauty and lifestyle businesses from across the country have indicated their interest and readiness to showcase their wares. Oja Oge by Ecobank is a pop-up marketplace for fashion, beauty, wellness, lifestyle and entertainment. The 2-day […]
Read MoreUntil the Nigerian Government takes drastic steps to tackle the complex and contradictory regulations that stifle innovation, significant of innovation for sustainable development in Nigeria will remains in doldrum notwithstanding the evidences that the innovation ecosystem is driven primarily by young population, who are increasingly tech-savvy and entrepreneurial. This sad state of the nation’s innovative […]
Read MoreThe iHATCH startup incubation programme has been able to create 1179 jobs within three years of its formation.The jobs, which were created by Cohort 1 and 2 had 16 trained startups with 32 participants, and a combined job of 179 and over 1000 indirect jobs. According to the Director General of the National Information Technology […]
Read MoreThree of Nigeria’s innovation solution providers are among the fifty finalists, who are uplifting their communities through the use of innovation, have been selected for the next round of the fifth edition of the Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) competition, a competition of the philanthropic programme spearheaded by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy to […]
Read MoreHafide Accounting, a Somaliland-based startup, has been selected for the famed Timbuktoo Africa Fintech Accelerator in Lagos, Nigeria. The Accelerator is United Nations Development Programme’s effort to ignite the African innovation ecosystem by supporting and investing in Africa’s best talent via 8 themed Timbuktoo hubs in 8 countries, 54 University Innovation Pods across Africa, and […]
Read MoreNigeria Reaps from Own tech Talent Programme… Awarri, the Nigerian startup selected to build the country’s first AI, has engaged over 500 fellows of the federal government’s ‘3 Million Technical Talent’ (3MTT) programme. The aim is to use the cohort as data collectors in building the multilingual large language model. The Minister of Communications, Innovation, […]
Read MoreScience is in a reproducibility crisis. In preclinical research, it’s estimated that over 50% of efforts to reproduce experiments fail, costing the industry over $50bn each year. Solving this problem, techbio startup Briefly Bio has launched with software that makes lab work more reproducible by helping scientists capture and share their work clearly and consistently. With this […]
Read MoreBuilding and launching a scalable digital health product that meets regulatory demands typically takes a few years to deliver. Today, global healthcare AI company Huma Therapeutics Limited is announcing the completion of its Series D funding round to help cut that time down to days as it launches the Huma Cloud Platform. The platform offers no code […]
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