The Government of Nigeria, UNICEF and partners today launched the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP), an online, mobile and soon-to-be offline learning platform that will provide continuous education to 3 million learners in 2022 alone, and a total of 12...

French-Nigerian B2B startup Kwik, a fast-growing provider of SaaS logistics services to social vendors and e-commerce platforms in Africa, is announcing today that they successfully closed its 2m$ Series A round. The financing round is led by XBTO Ventures,...

NBA Africa and the Royal Bafokeng Nation, through its sports development arm Royal Bafokeng Sports (RBS), today announced an expansion of their long-term youth development partnership.  The expanded partnership will see the 12th year of the Royal Bafokeng Jr....

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of 24 February, when Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia announced what they referred to as a "special military operation" to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine. A few minutes later, missiles...