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Nigeria-based payments company, Interswitch, has engaged professional advisers to help revive its plans for a stock-market listing in London and Lagos later in 2019. In a report by Bloomberg, Citigroup Inc, Standard Bank Group Ltd and JPMorgan Chase & Co., are amongst the firms working on the initial public offering […]
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Earlier this year, Nigeria fintech company, Paylater, rebranded to Carbon, to reflect its intentions to expand to Ghana and go beyond that of a consumer credit company, to transition to a “fully-fledged digital financial services platform”, offering bill payments, fund transfers and savings products, in addition to loans. Speaking at […]
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Tade Thompson wins the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction novels Tade Thompson competed with 124 other novels, the largest number ever submitted for the award, according to The Guardian. Only 7% of the 125 novels examined for the prize came from people of color. His novel was eventually […]
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The European Union (EU) is set to empower African women with £250m which is in line with its 2030 agenda in Africa. EU Programme Manager to Nigeria, Laolu Olawumi, disclosed this in Abuja during an interview on the sideline of the UN and EU spotlight initiative workshop. Olawumi explained that […]
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