Join Alliance Française in Lagos for an unforgettable evening that celebrates authentic, compelling African narratives and cinematic excellence through Short Films, featuring Film Screening, Interactive Panel Sessions, Award Recognition and Presentations. AN EVENING OF SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL (AEOSFF) #LAGOS2024 Theme: Diversity and Inclusion, carrying everyone along through compelling African stories. Date: Saturday November 30, 2024 Red Carpet: 4PM Main Event: 5PM Venue: Mike Adenuga Centre. Alliance Française de Lagos.9 Osborne Road. Ikoyi-Lagos. Tickets: VIP and REGULAR available
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Adanne Uche (Founder, Adys Agro) has thrown an open invite to join her at the 2024 Lagos international Trade Fair, taking place at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. Ady’s Agro will be exhibiting as from November 06 – 10, 2024 and can be found at the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSEFT) corner.
Solution Innovation District (SID) – a platform for training, incubating and mentoring startups and innovative entrepreneurs in Anambra State, Nigeria – are thrilled to announce the first-ever Anambra Innovation Week 2024. Amidst keynote speeches, hands-on workshops, product showcases, awards, and competitions, the Innovation Week is expected bring together experts from different walks of life (both public and private sector) to explore the unlimited possibilities of innovation that exist across Africa. Date: November 25th – 30th, 2024 Theme: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚, 𝐍𝐨𝐰 To attend, please register here:
Olubunmi Davies is a retired Architect and the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sisi Aladire Enterprises – masters in the art of tie-dye fabric methods – and she will be exhibiting at Wear Nigeria 2024, which showcases Nigeria’s rich textiles and Afrocentric design to the world. The 2024 edition of Wear Nigeria will take place for from November 08 – 10 as follows: Day 1: Symposium, Panel Exhibitions and Exhibition Day 2: Exhibition on Nigerian Fashion & Textile Day 3: Exhibition, Cultural Performance & Fashion Runway Locations: Alliance Francaise (Mike Adenuga Centr, Ikoyi. Lagos) + Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island (see poster…
In collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) at King’s College runs an extracurricular program aimed at cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset in Africa which students can apply with their own projects to win a prize. The aim is to encourage student innovators to challenge the status quo and re-imagine the world through sustainable and ethical projects that can have a positive social and environmental impact. The panel discussion series – slated for November 05 & 12 and tagged tagged African Founders – will bring together key figures from the entrepreneurial sector, with a specific…
In 2023, over 4,000 tech enthusiasts converged in Uyo (Akwa Ibom State) for the Akwa Ibom Tech Week – an extraordinary experience spanning innovation in tech, networking with industry leaders, and brainstorming within workshops and panels. Building on last year’s success, where 500 youths received Google Scholarships and job placements, organisers of Akwa Ibom Tech Week 2024 have promised to create an even stronger innovation ecosystem. Key events include: Hackathon & Cultural Night Conference & Venture Showcase Career Fair & Creative Showcase Ecosystem Hub Tour 📅 Date: October 28 – November 2, 2024📍 Venue: Key locations across Akwa Ibom State…
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…
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.
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…