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Techstars-backed startup, Reeple unveils cross-border platform to aid African Diasporans remittances
30 Apr 2024
Nigerians living abroad can now send money home to loved ones with greater ease and affordability thanks to the launch of a new cross-border payment product from Reeple, a Techstars-backed startup. Reeple's user-friendly web app simplifies money transfers from the U.S. and Canada to Nigeria, offering the best exchange rates in the market and eliminating…
21 Feb 2024
Techstars, the most active startup investor in Africa, held its second pan-African Demo Day in partnership with Lagos-based innovation program, ARM Labs. The ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator Demo Day was held on 20th February at Balmoral Convention Center, Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. The event featured presentations from Techstars’ stellar second cohort across the continent,…
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The former governor of Kogi, Mr Yahaya Bello has urged traditional rulers in the state to continue fostering peace and unity within their domains while offering unwavering support to Gov. Ahmed Ododo. Bello made the call on Thursday, when he hosted the Kogi Central Traditional Council of Chiefs at his residence in Okene. …
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Former two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, on Thursday visited the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos. Mr Idris Aregbe, Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tourism, Arts and Culture, who was in company of Joshua, disclosed this via his Instagram page, @idrisconnectingnigeria. Aregbe said; “Today, I and J…
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The Nigeria Custom Service (NCS), says it has generated N102.5 billion revenues in the Kano/Jigawa Command in 2024. The Comptroller, Dauda Chana said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday in Kano. He said the figures represented 94 per cent increase in the revenue generated in the previous year,…
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The travails of Gift Orban at Olympique Lyonnais of France are finally over after TSG Hoffenheim of Germany confirmed the signing of the Nigerian striker on Thursday evening. The Bundesliga outfit announced the capture of Orban on a long-term deal from Lyon after which Italian transfer expert, Fabrizio Romano revealed the amount Hoffenheim got him.…
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the opposition Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 poll of misleading Nigerians to score cheap political gains. APC's national publicity secretary, Mr. Felix Morka, in a statement, described Obi's New Year message, in which he claimed that the political, economic, and…
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The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says fire gutted a one-storey building in Lekki area of the state. The Permanent Secretary of the agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu said the agency received a distress call at…
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The opposition New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has raised concern over the alleged plan by President Bola Tinubu's administration to return the nation to a party system. Though, NNPP claimed to have actively contributed to the success recorded by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2023 presidential poll but vowed that the reverse…
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No fewer than seven persons lost their lives in a lone auto crash on Kaltungo – Cham Road in Gombe State. Mr Samson Kaura, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, confirmed the incident on Thursday in Gombe. He said that 31 other persons sustained varying degree of injuries in the…
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Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, has criticised Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) flagbearer, for visiting former military president Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in Minna. On Thursday, Sowore expressed his disapproval of Obi's meeting with Babangida in a post on X. "How on earth could someone…
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The 2023 gubernatorial standard bearer of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV), has called for a coalition of political parties to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Rhodes-Vivour made the call on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he declared his intention to join…