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Fashion Focus  is a program that’s dedicated to the growth and promotion of young and emerging fashion talent in Africa. In partnership with FETS Wallet and Avivere, Fashion Focus presents unique opportunities for emerging talents to harness their skills through business development workshops, creative workshops, and mentorships. This year-long opportunity affords young designers with the tools they need to facilitate innovation, growth and commercial success. Alumni of the Fashion Focus programme include Ejiro Amos Tafiri, Gozel Green, Iamisigo, Kenneth Ize, Maxivive, Meena, Orange Culture, and Sisiano. In March 2018, 2017/18 Fashion Focus Finalist, Emmy Kasibit was the recipient of the Fashion Focus Fund. Emmy received a cash grant of N5,000,000 (Five Million Naira) to support his business.       Benefits of Applying Eligibility to apply for the #LFWNG Fashion Focus Fund Business and Creative Skills Workshop Business and Creati...

Inspire Africa for Global Impacts Initiative with support from the U.S. Embassy Abuja, is implementing the IGNITE Innovation Lab project that seeks to develop entrepreneurial and leadership skills of young people aged 18 to 35 through intensive training and mentorship. Participants will receive two days of entrepreneurship training, with the top 25 females selected to participate in a week-long innovation lab. Five business plans will be crafted during the lab session, with the top three to receive prizes as seed funding to support their startups. All the business plans will be designed with the additional goal of advancing one of five United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: health and well-being, education, clean water and sanitation, clean energy, and/or economic growth. At the end of the project, the beneficiaries will be matched with business experts for continuous mentoring. The goal of the IGNITE Innovation Lab is to empower young entrepreneurs to successfully co-cr...

Are you developing a tech project aimed at displaced people? Techfugees has defined five main area of focus where tech can have a significant impact: the T5. The Techfugees Global Challenges encompasses all of them. The Organizers have identified the following five (5) themes, as detailed on the competition website: Theme 1: Access to rights and information; Theme 2: Health; Theme 3: Education; Theme 4: Employment; Theme 5: Social inclusion. Benefits: The 25 selected projects for the grand finale in Paris will be given a pitching opportunity on stage at the Techfugees Global Summit in Paris, October 25th and 26th! Two airline tickets  (on Air France flights thanks to our partnership with the company) and  two entry tickets  for the Summit  will be offered to each finalist project team. It will be a unique opportunity to meet the best and most experienced #tech4refugees innovators as well as inspiring speakers, Techfugees partners and enjoy the vi...

The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund  ‘LSETF’  in partnership with VISA West Africa and Passion Incubator is organizing a 3-day hackathon aimed at creating technology-based financial solutions to help MSMEs carry out daily cashless transactions. Date:  August 31st – September 2nd, 2018 Prizes: 1st Prize:  ₦2million 2nd Prize: ₦1million 3rd Prize:  ₦500,000 Are you a developer or you’ve got an idea on how best we can digitize payments for MSMEs. How to Apply: If you are interested in this opportunity, kindly visit the link below: Visit here to apply for the LSETF Cashless L agos Hackathon 2018

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK GOOD LIFE IS WORTH THE FIGHT - Adagbada Dipor-Exzie African millennial and our younger counterparts would often be found ignorantly making such statements as, 'Why has God blessed the Americans and Englishmen, but chose to punish Africans?', 'The black man is no match for the white' or 'The white has good-witch, it uses for technological enhancement and societal development, while Africans have bad-witch used for torment and punishment of follow men'. No man can be lost like the man who takes his past with a pinch of salt. Was it not on this platform, a pseudo-human said he sees no point in making an entrepreneur take history classes while having his/her Bachelors program? His shortsightedness is not worth the distraction it is about to cause to this post, however. The 'good life' (buoyant and thriving economy, high life expectancy, structured and concerned government) enjoyed today by the English and the Americans was paid f...

StartUp SouthWest is a beneficiary of the Growth and Employment project (GEM). The project is focused on fostering a vibrant and sustainable technology ecosystem across the South West region of Nigeria (Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Lagos and Osun) of Nigeria. Startup SouthWest is one of 6 proposed similar regional hub projects being supported by GEM (one per geo-political zone). StartUp SouthWest will include pre-Incubation training programs and a Startup Incubation program. Pre-incubation Program The Pre-Incubation program is focused on providing Training and Support in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence,Software Development Ethics, Entrepreneurship training and Ideation so as to allow innovators the opportunity to gain the skills required to build deep technologies. REQUIREMENTS Full-time commitment(3 Months) Residence within the South-West states Little or No technology background Visit the page  to apply for Lagos, Ondo or Ogun Cohort. Application deadli...