Alliance Française de Lagos are excited to announce that its Open Call, targeted at creatives, is here again! The objective of the Open Call is to provide a platform for those in the Creative sector to share their remarkable talent, showcase crafts, and collaborate with the Alliance on exciting projects. The focus will be on creatives in these categories: Performing Arts Visual Arts Cinema Library Every submission will be meticulously reviewed in line with the Alliance Française mission to promote cultural exchange, diversity, social development, gender equality, and digital innovation. To share your entries, click here. Or scan the QR…
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Applications are now open for Google’s 2025 Europe, Middle East and Africa summer Internship programme, offering several growth opportunities – from Engineering & Technology to Business Marketing and Sales. All interns are a part of Google: involved in solving problems and helping create products and services used by billions of users around the world. Google invites you to come on board to help them build for everyone.To browse available roles, and to apply for an internship position, click here. Application deadline is October 25, 2024.
Commanding writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – who brought us the immortal works of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun – has officially announced her return to long-form fiction with a new novel Dream Count, set for a March 04, 2025 release. The new novel by the author of Half of a Yellow Sun (4th Estate, 2006) and Americanah (4th Estate, 2013) tells the story of four women linked by friendship. Says Adichie: DREAM COUNT is contemporary: Covid. Sexual assault inspired by a true story. Depression. A man’s extreme ‘ghosting’ of a woman. Fibroids. Teenage self-esteem. PMS.But also timeless: Injustice. Dignity. Regret. What is a full life?…
📸 @IfeDareJohnson Ifeoluwa Dare-Johnson is Founder & CEO at Healthtracka – a digital health platform that gives consumers direct access to a wide range of testing options and clinical services from home. At-home sample collection and digital results are achieved in a remarkable time span of 1-3 days Ifeoluwa Dare-Johnson (Founder & CEO at Healthtracka) Founded in February 2021, Healthtracka has gained a reputation for leveraging innovation and technology to empower people in taking an active role in their health for longer, more satisfying lives. Enabling better healthcare decision, from your home: Healthtracka has already reached over 10.000 people 🎥Bayer…
Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) has shared that his company just completed a second successful load test of its Duma ground drone, pulling a 2.1-ton car while carrying an 80kg human being – all fully powered by ArtemisOS, a TerraHaptix proprietary C2 software.Nathan wryly adds: Another engineer was kind enough to volunteer his car :)#technology #ai Nathan Nwachuku (Founder & Chairman, TerraHaptix) TerraHaptix – Africa’s largest drone manufacturer – is a robotics company building low-cost, unmanned systems for core industries. They refer to themselves as being on a mission to accelerate automation in emerging markets. The company recently opened a…
Dr. Abiodun Adereni (Founder & CEO, HelpMum Africa) HelpMum Africa – promoters of maternal and infant healthcare in Africa – were recently announced as one of the winners of the Meta LIama Innovation grant award, during the Concordia Summit that took place in New York during the UN General Assembly (#UNGA79). The company’s win is tied to its developing an innovative chatbot service that delivers accurate and timely information on vaccination and immunisation. Leveraging Llama 3’s advanced language processing capabilities, HelpMum Africa created Vax-Llamamodel — an AI-driven, open-source model designed to provide reliable vaccination information. This open source model can be integrated into…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fatZF0JMlOg The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre – a non-profit organisation established in 2016 to prevent child sexual abuse and provide free access to care, information, protection and emergency intervention – recently celebrated the graduation of 30 professionals from the justice, child protection, and law enforcement sectors. The training program was designed to equip stakeholders in the criminal justice system with specialised skills for sensitive forensic interviews of children survivors of abuse. Tutoring of the graduands who completed their specialised course as Child Forensic Interviewers, was conducted by the Zero Abuse Project and sponsored by The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre,…
CAIRO, Egypt, September 30, 2024/ — The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, Africa’s leading philanthropic initiative supported by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, is proud to announce the Top 10 finalists for the 2024 ABH Prize.These exceptional entrepreneurs were chosen after an intense round of semi-final business pitches and judging held on September 27-28 at Kamelizer Spaces, with community events until September 29, all in the historic city of Cairo, Egypt. This marks ABH’s first event in North Africa, highlighting Egypt’s growing role as a key hub of entrepreneurial innovation in Africa.The Top 10 finalists are (in…
Seated (L-R): Temitope Adeyemi (Co-Founder & CEO, Pay-U) in a recent meet-up with legendary Angel Investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and adviser to tech companies Harry ‘Tomi Davies to brainstorm 📸TemitopeA Imagine that you drive a NGN50,000,000 car from Ikeja to Victoria Island within 1 hour and you get to pay a premium of just NGN1,141 – instead of worrying about paying NGN2,500,000 as upfront annual premium, especially when you can’t afford the upfront cost. Or Imagine… that you drive a car valued at NGN10,000,000 from Lekki Phase 1 to Ikoyi – which is about 30-minute journey – and you pay NGN80…
📸 @TonyOElumelu Congratulations go out to Dr. Awele V. Elumelu OFR on completing the 42.195km Berlin Marathon (2024)! It’s her 5th marathon in the bag, after having completed the New York, Manchester, Chicago and London marathons! Dr. Elumelu is Founding Director at Heirs Holdings, co-Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Chairperson at Avon Healthcare Interesting Read Resource: Thriving in the Hustle: Holistic Wellness Strategies for Entrepreneurs [By Jerome Knyszewski via Medium.com]