GHANA to host Africa’s political and business summit, Africa Prosperity Dialogues – Zambia Daily Mail

GHANA is earmarked to host Africa’s political and business leaders’ maiden edition of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues (APD) this month-end. MONICA KAYOMBO, lusaka In a statement issued yesterday, Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretary general Wamkele Mene and other invited African leaders and accomplished business leaders are

BD Insider, Letter 144

This is the first letter of 2023, welcome to the new year! We look forward to bringing you more impressive reporting about the impact of technology in Africa. As usual, this will be an exciting ride. In Letter 144, we examine: African companies in Y Combinator 2023 winter batch Nigerian agritech, Releaf’s $3.3 million pre-series

Winners emerge in entrepreneurship contest

Winners have emerged from the youth-empowering not-for-profit organisation and Africa’s large high school entrepreneurship competition, Junior Achievement Africa. A statement said First Bank partnered with JA Africa to organise the 12th edition of Company of the Year competition, Africa’s high school entrepreneurship competition which was hosted in Nigeria with the theme ‘Fueling Changemakers’. It stated

South Africa to offer Nigeria’s business leaders 10-year visas

South Africa carried its “We are open for business” message to Lagos Monday, saying it worked on easing the misery of Nigerians applying for visas into the country and that it will now issue long term visas of up to ten years to proven Nigerian businessmen. Bobby Moroe, the South African Consul General announced this

Lagos Has Highest Rent Index Among African Cities

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi It is common knowledge that while Nigerians and, of course, the global community were on Sunday, January 1, 2023, celebrating the ‘arrival’ of a brand new year, former President Olusegun Obasanjo released to Nigerians his regular trademark Open Letter, where he, among other remarks, endorsed the Labour Party candidate in the

Thoma Bravo continues to invest

The continued acquisition/investment activity of Thoma Bravo was one of the main themes of the technology industry last month. Connect acquired Pivotal Data and illation, South African providers of enterprise communication, customer experience (CX) and cloud contact centre solutions.Redwill ICT bought Opentel, a provider of ISP services.Alviva Holdings has received a binding offer from a

Ghana to host Africa’s business leaders at maiden Africa Prosperity Dialogues

Under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and His Excellency Wamkele Mene, secretary general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, the maiden edition of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues series will hold from Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 January 2023 in Ghana, host

Ghana 2022/23 cocoa arrivals up 76% by Dec. 15- COCOBOD regulator

ABIDJAN, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Ghana’s graded and sealed (G&S) cocoa arrivals stood at 350,000 tonnes by Dec. 15 since the start of this year’s harvest on Oct. 1, up 76% from 199,000 tonnes in the same period the previous season, figures from regulator COCOBOD showed on Monday. G&S is cocoa that has been quality