This sounds really cool – 0% interest rate on loans, in Nigeria. The Bank of Industry (BoI) has reduced its interest rates for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members under its Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund (GEF) programme, to 0% from 9%,…
This is an opportunity for young people interested in developing skills on agriculture. The MasterCard Foundation is partnering with Michigan State University (MSU) for the AgriFood Youth Opportunity Lab, a five-year, $13 million collaboration. This partnership will support 15,000 young…
Singularity University Global Grand Challenge is accepting applications. It is looking for world’s most promising social impact technology companies (could be for-profit or not). Zenvus represented Africa, as the only firm from the continent, last year, and this challenge added…
GE Garage Lagos is General Electric’s open FabLab in Nigeria. Through workshops and demo, they hope to increase the employability of the local workforce in some key industries. GE created the Garages program in 2012 to reinvigorate America’s interest in…
Facebook wants to make its ecosystem cleaner with lesser irrelevant contents showing on people’s feeds. The social media giant said on Wednesday that it was making changes designed to keep its users from linking to “low-quality” websites, part of an effort…
