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Winners have emerged in the 2023 DealMakers Africa Annual Gala Awards held at Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi, Kenya on 14 March 2023.
Overall, West Africa continued to dominate with the highest deal value of mergers and acquisitions at US$3.29 billion, with Nigeria the centre of activity with 135 deals. It was followed by East Africa, which recorded deal value in aggregate of $2.88 billion.
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Daniel Oseni has emerged overall winner of the 2023 Savvy Prize for Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs for his natural cooling system that preserves and stores tomatoes for up to 3 to 4 months without getting spoilt.
This Prize, running for its second year, seeks to recognize and support the efforts of Savvy Fellows working to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems through innovative and sustainable ways. This year’s Prize comes with a lot of benefits including up to $3,000 in cash prizes, product development support, and marketing endeavors.
Nigeria’s agritech company, ThriveAgric, has been selected among the winners of the 2022 AYuTe Agritech Africa Challenge that supports agritech innovators alongside Kenya’s DigiCow and Botwana-based Brastorne Enterprises.
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Winners have emerged in the 2022 NGX Made of Africa Awards (NGX MOA Awards) hosted by the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX or The Exchange).
The awards is in recognition of innovativeness and compliance with best practices in the Nigerian capital market for the calendar year.
The Awards ceremony, which took place in Lagos on 6 December 2022, spotlighted excellence, creativity and integrity as NGX sought to amplify the activities of its stakeholders to further reinforce the values that attract investors to the market and grow the African economy. Players in the capital market ranging from Issuers, Securities Dealers, Issuing Houses, Fund Managers, Trustees, Legal firms and stakeholders including the media and content creators were rewarded for their contributions to the development of the market.
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ThriveAgric, an innovative Nigerian start-up that is promoting the use of technology to transform the payments landscape for the agricultural sector, has emerged winner of the 2022 Visa Everywhere Initiative (VEI) – a global open innovation program and competition for start-ups and fintech companies.
Visa Everywhere Initiative is an open innovation program that helps start-ups unlock new opportunities and gives them a global platform to demonstrate their ground-breaking solutions.
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Winners have emerged at the 2022 Capital Finance International (CFI.co) awards [Nigeria].
Each year, Capital Finance International (CFI.co) seeks out individuals and organisations that contribute significantly to the convergence of economies and truly add value for all stakeholders. Reporting from frontlines of economic convergence, CFI.co realises that best practice is to be found throughout the world and the Awards Programme aims to identify and reward excellence wherever it is found in the hope to inspire others to further improve their own performance.
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Seplat Energy Plc (“Seplat” or the “Company”), a leading Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the Nigerian Exchange Limited and the London Stock Exchange, announces that it has successfully obtained the ISO 55001:2014 Standard Asset Management System certification, becoming the first energy company in Africa to achieve this remarkable feat.