Who can establish a Lagos branch of The New York Supply Chain Meetup? If interested and have the capabilities, email my community manager or connect directly with the Co-Founder. The world of commerce is nothing but supply chain. Lagos is a world’s premier Center of Excellence; we need to fix our supply chain. The TNYSCM is working in many global cities to make that happen.

The New York Supply Chain Meetup (#TNYSCM) is a recently formed community whose mission is to nurture and grow the world’s foremost open, global, and multidisciplinary community of people devoted to building the supply chain networks of the future – starting in NYC. Since it was founded on August 23, 2017, #TNYSCM has grown organically to include more than 1,000 members. This makes it the largest supply chain meetup in the United States, by a substantial margin. It’s growth has been driven largely by the enthusiasm its members have for topics related to supply chain, innovation, and technology. You can join the community by visiting its meetup page. There’s also a snippet, and a story in FreightWaves, about the group’s gathering in January 2018. This #TNYSCM Overview Presentation will give you a sense of the kind of community we are trying to create. #TNYSCM is the originating chapter of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation – with sister chapters in the process of being established in Singapore and Vancouver, and with more to follow in Europe and Australia

One of Nigeria’s pioneering mobile money companies which pivoted to digital payment at scale has raised $10 million. It will use this money to drive its global expansion vision. Paga is winning markets: since it was founded less that a decade ago, it has processed 57 million transactions worth $3.6 billion. That is a big number in any market, and when you put Nigeria beside it, you can agree that Paga is on a mission. In total, the company has raised $35 million.

Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is gearing up for an international expansion with $10 million in funding let by the Global Innovation Fund. 

The company is planning to release its payments product in Ethiopia, Mexico, and the Philippines—CEO Tayo Oviosu told TechCrunch at Disrupt San Francisco.

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As part of the $10 million round (which brings Paga’s total funding up to $35 million), Global Innovation Partners will take a board seat. Other round participants include Goodwell, Adlevo Capital, Omidyar Network, and Unreasonable Capital.

Today, I was with one of the leading cybersecurity companies in Nigeria: a leading PCIDSS compliance consulting firm in sub Saharan Africa. Infoprive is a category-king technology business. It is a digital security company which delivers services across key nexus of digital compliance, assurance and protection. In some sub-categories, it commands 100% of the market share in Nigeria.

As an innovative and driven information security company , we are a leading Information security brand with in-depth knowledge and hands-on approach to Information security solutions and services.

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Our expertise extends to security assessments and remediation, consulting , implementation, managed services & incident response. We provide tailored and value based guidance that is specific to our clients’ unique situation and environment, with the aim of improving their information security system through a dynamic, result-oriented and continuous improvement approach.

Over the years, we have demonstrated an innate ability to add value to our clients ensuring profitability for their business; making us the number 1 information security company in Nigeria and in Sub-Saharan Africa.

It was a fascinating experience meeting the geeks and young people who are working day and night to ensure that most of our banks transfer our money securely. You should not take that for granted even as having your bank branch in your cell phone has become the norm.

Yes, before you use that USSD with the trust and security that come with sending money via SMS-like system, Infoprive may be doing many things underneath. It should make everyone happy that our nation has built capabilities in these niche areas.

I met a young man – among the very few earning a PhD in Cybersecurity. He is a defined geek in all the mathematical sense. A company cannot have better readiness through the tested construct of the accumulation of capabilities. Infoprive is investing in its people to remain a leader in the digital security business it operates.

Founders build nations because they create companies which help in fixing frictions that exist in markets. If you are looking for extremely committed and talented team that can deliver compliance at any level of complexity, Infoprive is there. It is a firm I have come to know and I am extremely honored for its mission. Spending time with the team and looking at the business has been very fascinating.