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1 week ago | 
techcabal.com | Towobola Bambgose |Hannatu Asheolge |Adonijah Ndege |Bunmi Bailey
VFD Microfinance Bank Ltd. held its 3rd Annual General Meeting for the 2023 financial year on Thursday, the 10th of April, at Herel Play, Ikoyi Lagos. The AGM was themed “Banking with Purpose, Delivering with Impact.”The meeting’s agenda included presenting the audited financial statements for 2022 and 2023, re-electing and appointing directors, re-appointing auditors, and determining the remuneration for auditors and directors.
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2 weeks ago | 
techcabal.com | Faith Omoniyi |Hannatu Asheolge |Kenn Abuya |Ganiu Oloruntade
If you ask any Nigerian university lecturer today, they’ll likely say the same thing: students use AI for everything—assignments, class discussions, even job applications. But maybe, just maybe, AI isn’t the enemy. At least, that’s what some students at Covenant University (CU) think.
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1 month ago | 
techcabal.com | Ngozi Chukwu |Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega |Kelechi Njoku |Hannatu Asheolge
In August 2024, as the feverish exam season drew to a close, marking the end of the academic year, the engineering faculty at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, upheld its tradition of celebrating with an awards dinner. But that year, something was different. A new award was being introduced: the Engineering Spirit Award. Its first-ever recipient, Motunrayo Sanyaolu, a third-year electrical engineering student, was no surprise to the faculty.
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1 month ago | 
techcabal.com | Bunmi Bailey |Frank Eleanya |Hannatu Asheolge
When Nigerian edtech startup Edukoya started operations in May 2021, its founder Honey Ogundeyi aimed to revolutionise online learning for K-12 students in Africa. That same year, the company secured a $3.5 million funding to expand its business and enhance its technology. But funding was not enough to sustain the business. In February, 2025, the startup shut down core operations citing low disposable income and other macroeconomic conditions.
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1 month ago | 
techcabal.com | Ngozi Chukwu |Kelechi Njoku |Hannatu Asheolge |Muktar Oladunmade
Douglas Kendyson calls himself “God’s favourite,” and his journey so far reinforces his belief. After graduating from Covenant University at 19, he transitioned from a curious website developer to becoming one of the earliest employees at Paystack—a company he idolised—and later, Flutterwave.
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2 months ago | 
techcabal.com | Towobola Bambgose |Muktar Oladunmade |Hannatu Asheolge |Ganiu Oloruntade
Ablexu, a Congolese pop and R&B artist born and raised in Switzerland, uses his TikTok account of over two thousand followers to raise funds for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite being away from Congo, he is distressed by the lack of media coverage of the country’s ongoing crisis.
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2 months ago | 
techcabal.com | Faith Omoniyi |Hannatu Asheolge |Kenn Abuya |Ganiu Oloruntade
Resilience17 (formerly Berrywood), the rebranded venture fund and studio founded by Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola, has launched a new AI-focused accelerator, Go Time AI, aimed at supporting African startups working on artificial intelligence products. Initially launched in 2021 as Berrywood with portfolio companies like Klasha, Pivo, AltSchool, and Bamboo, the venture studio will offer up to $200,000 in funding and mentorship to selected startups, in exchange for 8% equity ownership.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
techcabal.com | Faith Omoniyi |Hannatu Asheolge |Kenn Abuya |Ganiu Oloruntade
Aya Data, a Ghana-based AI startup that offers data collection and annotation services, has raised $900,000 seed round. The funding is a mix of debt and equity and will be used to scale two of its products, AyaGrow and AyaSpeech, and employ new talents. The new fund brings the startup’s total funding to $1.15 million. Aya Data previously from Microtraction, Savannah Fund, and Scott Bell. The latest funding round was led by 54Collective, with participation from other angel investors.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
techcabal.com | Ephraim Modise |Kenn Abuya |Hannatu Asheolge |Abraham Augustine
With cleantech startups poised for explosive growth, carbon credit financing could be a game-changer for the sector. Vladimir Dugin, a senior partner at E3 Capital, a pan-African venture firm, said at Moonshot by TechCabal in Lagos that African policymakers must establish clear regulations to drive the adoption of carbon credit financing. Panelists noted that the lack of laws and data is slowing the uptake of carbon credit funding on the continent.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
techcabal.com | Hannatu Asheolge |Timi Odueso
Issue #72 From coding to community management Greetings ET people 🖖🏾 Been a minute. While we’ll hate to rat anyone out, it looks like you missed your dose of #EnteringTech goodness last week because someone didn’t submit their draft in time. Please forgive us. Enough fourth-wall breaking, let’s get into it. Our Entering Tech guest today, Maryann Onuoha is having an illustrious career. Growth marketing, events, content and SEO, community management, coding—she’s done it all.
