African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has been named 2022 Man of the Year (Africa) by Exclusive Men of the Year (EMY), for his visionary leadership as the president of the African Development Bank Group and for his outstanding contribution to Africa during his period as agriculture minister of Nigeria.
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Recognising socio-economic productive, valuable and impactful Nigerian entities that improve Nigerian and global business & economy.
Kian Smith Trade And Company Limited Launches ‘Sanu’ As Nigeria’s First Digital Platform For Buying Gold And Silver
Kian Smith Trade And Company Limited has launched ‘Sanu’ as Nigeria’s first digital platform (and mobile app) for buying gold and silver.
Sanu, Kian Smith’s novel innovation in Nigeria’s mining and trade industry, is set to create an organised and accessible retail market that enables gold buyers in Africa to purchase digital representations of physical gold, Sanu-GLD (SNG) and silver Sanu-SLV (SNS) respectively.
Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Awarded 2022 Best Egmont Case Award (BECA)
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), in Riga, Latvia, scored the highest points and awarded the 2022 Best Egmont Case Award (BECA) nomination among the 164-member countries of the Egmont Group.
Publish What You Fund Ranks African Development Bank First On 2022 Global Aid Transparency Index
Publish What You Fund has ranked the African Development Bank (AfDB) under the leadership of Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as the first on the 2022 Global Aid Transparency Index.
Publish What You Fund, the global campaign for aid and development transparency, has named the African Development Bank the most transparent organisation in the world.
The Bank’s Sovereign Portfolio now ranks first out of 50 global development institutions in Publish What You Fund’s 2022 Aid Transparency Index, released today with a top score of 98.5.
ThriveAgric Wins 2022 CEMEA Visa Everywhere Initiative
ThriveAgric, has emerged as the winner of Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI), a global innovation program and competition for start-ups and fintech companies.
With this win in the CEMEA region, ThriveAgric will receive a monetary prize and a spot in the Global Finale scheduled to hold in Qatar, in November 2022.
Carepay, another Nigerian fintech also made it to the final five and won the Audience Favourite Award.
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Livebic Win MarkHack 1.0 Hackathon
Livebic, a new platform for content creators to market and deliver their content, has emerged the overall winner of the MarkHack 1.0 competition.
The founders of Livebic, Shadrach Akao and Ernest Ogbanefe, received the sum of $10,000 as the overall winner of the marketing competition.
Tunde Adeyemi Wins 2022 Deji Alli ARM Young Talent Award (DAAYTA)
ARM has announced Tunde Adeyemi as the winner of the 2022 Deji Alli ARM Young Talent Award (DAAYTA) programme at the finalists’ pitch event.
Tunde Adeyemi of D-Olivette Enterprise, emerged winner out of seven contestants to claim the ₦12 million grant. His business idea – D-Olivette is a social enterprise that is accelerating the advent of sustainable domestic biogas biodigester for clean cooking, electrification, and sustainable agriculture.
The enterprise is doing this through the provision of domestic biodigesters innovation exclusively designed to convert household, farm organic waste and biodegradable wastewater into fertilizer and biogas within ten days.
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