Estonia-based ride-hailing company, Taxify, last week sealed a $175 million investment from Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, along with European venture capital fund Korelya Capital and TransferWise co-founder TaavetHinrikus. Uche Okafor, Taxify’s City Manager, in this exclusive interview with BusinessDay’s Private Equity & Fund Raising editor, Lolade Akinmurele, spoke of plans to deploy the […]
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French national assembly president Francois de Rugy speaks during a session of questions to the Government at the French National Assembly in Paris on June 6, 2018. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP French l
Suspected jihadists killed five people using knives and machetes in an area of Mozambique that has been rocked by a spate of attacks blamed on radical Islamists, police said Thursday. Cabo Delgado,
Players of the German national football team joke with their teammate Germany’s defender Niklas Suele (C) during a training session at the Rungghof training centre on June 7, 2018 in Eppan near Bolzano, northern Italy, ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Christof STACHE / AFP Defending champions Germany will have the […]
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Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is far off from reaching the number one Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ending eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2030,according to world poverty cl
Founder of Odua People’s Congress, (OPC) Frederick Fasehun has thrown his weight behind Monday’s joint resolution of the National Assembly to impeach president Muhammadu Buhari. He said it was an overdue and commendable step to protect the country’s democracy and check the nation’s slide into totalitarianism. Fasheun, who is also the national chairman of the unity […]
The Abuja Literary Society (ALS), a group of creative minds and patrons of arts, is set to host it’s first literary festival tagged, “Nigeria to the World.” The Festival, named the Abuja Literar
Daughter of hero of democracy, Hafsat Abiola Costello, has been ecstatic since the declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday evening. Abiola Castello wrote on
The government should not be left alone in the drive to ensure that our teachers get the best in the area of improved access to global resources in teaching. All of us especially in the private sector should come in. The management of Kudos Learning Solutions Specialty Publications should be commended for its regional workshop […]