By Elyse Estrada The dream of every entrepreneur is to have a global customer base. After all, nothing shows you’ve made it like people all around...
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has launched FirstGem fund (FirstGem loan), a single-digit loan scheme, exclusively designed to put women at an advantage in contributing to...
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced the launch of the FirstGem fund (FirstGem loan) a single-digit loan scheme, targeted at female entrepreneurs. Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group...
Seventy-seven per cent of small and medium-sized businesses in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) are planning to do more business internationally according to...
Nigeria’s top financial lender, Access Bank, has pledged to fund entrepreneurs and create market access for small businesses by putting them in the right community. Speaking...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Google announced today an inaugural Google.org Fellowship to provide one million additional Africans with access to TEFConnect, as part of...
Google has announced the participants in Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 7. The selected startups are developing solutions in areas such as healthcare, education, fleet...
Google today announced that 5000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa will be receiving free training to help their...
Over a hundred years since banks came into Nigeria, services rendered to small and medium scale businesses were limited to core banking services and transactions. However,...
The TEF Entrepreneurship Programme is the $100 million commitment of Tony O. Elumelu, CON, an African investor and philanthropist, to identify, mentor, and fund 10,000 African entrepreneurs in...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will improve access to finance and credit for households, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in 2022. The CBN...
Nigeria’s development finance institution, Development Bank of Nigeria Plc (DBN), has said more business owners will get loans as it is addressing major financing challenges facing...
The Founder and Publisher of MSME Africa, Seye Olurotimi has been named the winner of 2021 FATE SME Journalist Award at the FATE Foundation 2021 Annual...
By SweepSouth Small businesses are usually the result of someone realising their passion has commercial value and they have the upside that you can be...
Entrepreneurship has a branding problem in Africa By Melissa Mbazo-Ekpenyong The perception among young people in Africa about becoming entrepreneurs needs to change. But, for...
BoI disbursed N3.7bn to 300,011 N-Power beneficiaries, others in 2020 The Bank of Industry (BoI) has said it disbursed N3.7 billion to beneficiaries of...
COVID-19: IFC announces $2bn investment to lift Africa’s MSMEs The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announced on Wednesday...
Mastercard calls for youth engagement in nation building Mastercard Foundation Nigeria has called for active youth engagement in the development of the nation, saying...
NEXIM, Afreximbank mobilise $50m support fund for SMEs The Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) has announced its partnership with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to mobilise the...
Aliko Dangote Foundation empowers rural women in Kwara with N160m Aliko Dangote Foundation has empowered a total of 16,000 women in all the 16 local...