Impact investment summit to hold in Accra | The Guardian Nigeria News

Impact Investing Ghana (IIGh) and Nigeria National Advisory Board for Impact Investing (Nigeria NABII) alongside impact investing taskforces in Burkina Faso and Senegal have announced the first West Africa Deal Summit and second Ghana Impact Summit slated for May 16 and 17, at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana, and virtually. Participants are to register

Nigeria leads Egypt, South Africa, others in venture capital –

Africa’s largest economy attracted the continent’s highest number of venture capital investments worth $6.5 billion in 2022, a new report from Africa Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has shown. According to the pan-African industry body, which promotes and enables private investment in Africa, Nigeria outperformed four other countries that made the top list

Africa suffers a shortage of project managers as infrastructure projects boom

According to the Project Management Institute’s most recent talent gap analysis, there will be a demand for at least 2.3 million new project management-related (PMO) employees annually by 2030. Sub-Saharan Africa will experience a 40% increase in PMO employment prospects within this decade. There is still a severe skills shortage despite the fact that many

South Africa blazes the trail for Africa with 5G subscriptions

Image Source: Technext. The adoption of the much-talked-about 5G network appears to be on the rise in Africa, with South Africa leading the pack, according to a new report released by Washington-based telecommunications market research and consulting firm, TeleGeography. The report, GlobalComms Database Service, which tracked 5G deployments in the Middle East and Africa (MEA),

Why Netflix invested more in South Africa than Nigeria

Netflix recently released a report showing its impact on the African market from 2016 to 2022, looking closely at three of its biggest markets South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. The report showed that Netflix invested a total of $125 million in South Africa and $23.6 million in Nigeria, despite the latter, the most populous nation

Nigeria Gets Malaria Vaccine April 2024 – FG

Nigeria will get doses of the RTS, S/AS01 malaria vaccine by April 2024, Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has assured. The Minister, who announced this on Tuesday during a briefing to commemorate World Malaria Day, said that the government has successfully submitted its application for the RTS,S vaccine allocation to GAVI. Ehanire, who was