by globalpro | Apr 28, 2020 | Business
ABUJA, Nigeria– Just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump recommended research study into whether drinking such liquids or taking them intravenously started to spread out throughout Nigeria on WhatsApp. “It is stunning that somebody might recommend...
by globalpro | Apr 14, 2020 | Travel
UN warns of alarming and unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods in the regionA second wave of desert locusts is threatening east Africa with estimates that it will be 20 times worse then the plague that descended two months ago. The locusts present the...
by globalpro | Dec 18, 2019 | Finance
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $6 million seed round led by Deciens Capital. The San Francisco-based company offers mobile-based, no fee, P2P payment services in six countries: Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya. Chipper...
by globalpro | Nov 13, 2019 | Finance
Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status after Visa acquired a minority equity stake in the firm. “The investment makes Interswitch one of the most valuable African fintech businesses with a valuation of $1...
by globalpro | Jun 6, 2019 | Finance
Jumia held its first post-IPO earnings call and weathered a short-sell assault in May, with Wall Street showing confidence in the Pan-African e-commerce company. On the numbers, key takeaways were that Jumia’s Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) — the total...
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