As a testament of its determination to support Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SME) to scale and run profitable ventures, leading financial institution -Fidelity Bank Plc -has been presented the 2020 Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) service award for the highest disbursement to DBN-focused location...
From trending hashtags to circulating an online campaign to increase media coverage, social media users are demanding answers in the case of Jelani Day, a 25-year-old Black graduate student who went missing in August before washing up in a river a week later. The case took a twisted turn last week when...
Nigeria will require civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test for the disease to gain access to their offices from the beginning of December, a presidential committee said on Wednesday. The presidential committee said unvaccinated government workers will need to pr...
Fifty African tech startups have been awarded equity-free funding by Google for Startups through its US$3 million Black Founders Fund Africa. Disrupt Africa reported in July on the US$3 million Google for Startups Black Founders Fund Africa, which is part of Google’s racial equity commitments ann...
Nigerian fintech startup Mono, which is building open banking infrastructure that enables access to customer financial data and bank payments for digital businesses in Africa, has announced a US$15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global to accelerate its continental expansion plans. F...
Nollywood actress, Biola Adebayo, has said that women go through a lot of pain just to look beautiful. The beautiful film star took to her Instagram page to state some of the difficult things that women have to put on just to stay beautiful. “Bra, girdle, lashes, makeup, heels, wig… All these in one bod...
