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Food farmer, Kafilat Adedeji’s award-winning Automated Modular Circular Mushroom – Aquaponics Greenhouse System (MCG Kit) has launched formally into the Nigerian market! The kit allows users in the city grow their own 100% organic foods (mushrooms, vegetables , herbs and spices and fish together) in a Circular ecosystem, from their homes – even in the smallest of spaces. Users do not need to know how to farm, neither do they require farmland to get started. Even better, the system works on autopilot, which ensures that post-set up by Kafilat and her team, maintenance simply involves a commitment of 1 -…

📸 Ifeoma Dike Created in 1998, PAD was the 1st created Design fair in the world, after 24 editions, remains the leading event for international Design collectors. The Paris edition, which held between April 3-7, 2024 was no exception, bringing together the best International and French galleries of Historical and Contemporary Design. Art Pioneer, Adviser, Curator, and Collector Ifeoma DIke (Founder, Idioblast Dynamic Development UK – IDDUK), was present at PAD Paris 2024, and had these detailed insights, with spots of realist humour) to share: “PAD Paris got design enthusiasts like me into Paris last week. Fortunately, it was happening…

Adenike Adeyemi (Executive Director, FATE Foundation) The FATE Foundation is excited to announce the imminent launch of four new online courses that will equip aspiring or emerging entrepreneurs in the logistics, film, and video production, short-term rental, and fashion businesses. A virtual launch event of the courses took place on Friday, April 12, 2024, – targeting entrepreneurs wanted details about course structure, as well as how the content would be beneficial to themselves and their businesses. For these individuals who operate in the in the dispatch, fashion, film, video production, and hospitality industries – and are constantly seeking avenues for…

The African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are pleased to announce  the selection and onboarding of 36 fellows as part of the third cohort of African Young Women Leaders (AfYWL). The new fellows, who represent 24 African countries, will be deployed to 25 UNDP country, regional and global offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States during a 12-month AfYWL Fellowship for an in-depth work experience and personal development with profound personal growth. Fellows will be immersed in diverse thematic areas, ranging from sustainable finance and climate action to gender, peace and security. Read the detailed announcement here.

Dairy Farmer, agropreneur, and Public Policy subject matter expert, Aminu Murtala Nyako (Founder, Sebore Farms) is also an accomplished Business & Financial Analyst, adept at improving business processes and translating data into valuable insight for company-wide decision making. Nyako may just have thrown open what might be both a challenge and lucrative business opportunity. He says: “A Nigerian cow producing 1litre versus a United States cow producing 60 litres, is worth studying and should push us to do more. “I often ask people “must things remain this way?”. We must challenge the status quo.”We won’t get there in a day,…

Author, Julie Roy 📸Jessi Sallenbach Reach Your Personal Potential: Self-Made Multimillionaire, ‘Serial’ Entrepreneur, Wife and Mom of Four Shares Her Secrets OMAHA, Neb. — In The Multi-Million Dollar Mompreneur: Your guide to business mastery, uncommon freedom and legacy wealth (GWN Publishing; May 1; ISBN: 978-1-959608-84-4, Print; 978-1-959608-85-1, Hardcover), Julie Roy shares some major takeaways from her journey to financial freedom and a fulfilling life. While offering insights and concrete action items to help anyone striving to propel their business, the author speaks directly to highly motivated women who are seeking to harmonize high net-worth entrepreneurship and family. “Balance is impossible,” Roy…

📸✍ Olufemi Olanipekun (Co-Founder, VeendHQ) shares his thoughts on lending and credit penetration in Africa “My grandpa was a lender, and If I was my grandpa in today’s world, these are the things that I would do differently.Credit penetration is low in Africa because it is hard to get the data needed to check creditworthiness, and payment is still an issue for credit use cases.For instance, banks rely on credit bureaus to access Credit history data. However, a lot of African businesses and consumers don’t have their data on the credit bureaus, which makes it hard for banks to serve…

(R-L): Dickson Nsofor (CEO, Kora), Prashant Matta (General Partner, Panache Ventures) Dickson Nsofor is CEO of Kora and Founder of The Curve – a  software engineering academy whose mission is to teach tech skills to dwellers of disadvantaged communities in Lagos. Recently, Nsofor visited slums in Lagos, in the company of project partner, Prashant Matta (General Manager, Panache Ventures – Canada’s most active seed stage venture capital fund, with a strong angel investor track record). Says Nsofor: “It was an absolute pleasure taking Prashant Matta to the slums in Lagos where our free programing school, The Curve Africa, is making…

Serlina Boyd (Founder, the Cocoa School of Journalism & Creative Arts) Serlina Boyd (founder of Cocoa Girl magazine – the first major Black children’s magazine in the UK) has hit another first. On Monday, April 08, 2024, Ms. Boyd opened the Cocoa School of Journalism & Creative Arts, which is the UK’s first Black-owned journalism school for children, with the aim of inspiring and nurturing children of all ages, who are interested in news journalism, podcasting and story writing. The curriculum will teach the young ones all about the elements of journalism, including news reporting, video editing, and illustration. Said the…

Demi Ariyo (founder, MeetLendoe), Leory Lawrence (founder, Pigee), Leon Wilson (founder, PollenPay) The 1000 Black Voices Fintech Trade Mission, scheduled from April 08 to 12, 2024, in the vibrant city of New York, has officially taken off! Founders on the Trade Mission, who will be exploring opportunities for fundraising and their expansion to the US, include: Demi Ariyo, Managing Director, Lendo – an access to funding platform for underestimated entrepreneurs. Leroy Lawrence, CEO of Pigee Inc – a payment app that increases tourist focused merchant sales 400%, by sending travel shopping home directly from brick-and-mortar shops in 117 countries. Leon…