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 By Temitope Segun Jongbo , Founder Globiqo A growing generation of African entrepreneurs is increasingly turning everyday personal challenges into ideas for businesses and technology solutions, with Nigerian entrepreneur Temi among those building around a problem he experienced firsthand. For Temi, the challenge was finding events and building community while living abroad. What started as a personal frustration eventually inspired Globiqo, a platform designed to make it easier for people to discover events and connect with communities. His journey reflects an emerging approach to entrepreneurship in which founders identify problems they personally understand and explore how technology can provide practical solutions. The problem behind the idea Unlike entrepreneurs who begin with extensive market research or a business plan, founders building from personal experience often start with a problem they have encountered themselves. Temi experienced the difficulty of being an internati...

    The streets of Manhattan came alive with the vibrant rhythms of Africa last Friday, August 14, 2026, as Nigerian highlife powerhouse Chinedu Okoli, globally renowned as Flavour, headlined a sold-out edition of the LOUD IN AFRICA Concert Series at Racket NYC. The highly anticipated event lived up to its billing, drawing a massive, enthusiastic crowd from across the African diaspora, music lovers, and international culture enthusiasts for an unforgettable night of music, dance, and heritage. From the moment the doors opened at 431 West 16th Street, the venue buzzed with high energy. Flavour, true to his title as the "King of Highlife," took the stage and treated the audience to a masterclass in live performance. Blending his signature highlife melodies with contemporary Afrobeats and rich traditional instrumentation, he doled out back-to-back crowd favorites, keeping fans on their feet singing along word-for-word. The night was further elevated by a stellar lineup of suppor...

 Fast rising star  Top US-based Nigerian artiste Babatunde Ogunseinde, popularly known as Babatunde140, has released a new Afro-fusion single titled “Bá Mi Jó (Dance With Me),” a vibrant track that explores attraction, confidence, individuality and the freedom to embrace personal preferences. The song, whose Yoruba title translates to “Dance With Me,” blends infectious African rhythms with soulful melodies and an engaging groove, creating a sound designed to inspire listeners to let loose and enjoy the moment. According to the artiste, “Bá Mi Jó” is more than a dance record, as it celebrates self-confidence and encourages people to embrace what they consider beautiful while expressing themselves without restraint. “Bá Mi Jó is about confidence, individuality and being free to embrace what you find beautiful. It is an invitation to let go, move freely and enjoy love, attraction, culture and good vibes,” Babatunde140 said. The track reflects the growing fusion of contemporary Af...

   Professional marketing capability in Nigeria has, for years, come in one of two forms: expensive or amateur. Agencies price their work for companies that can absorb ₦500,000 or more per project and wait two to three weeks for delivery. Free tools produce results that read exactly like what they are: software built for hobbyists, not businesses trying to close sales. Most startups, entrepreneurs and SMEs sit stuck between the two, too established for amateur output to hold up, too early-stage for agency pricing to make sense. FrontOffice has launched to close that gap.       The Problem More than 95 percent of Nigerian SMEs fail within their first five years, and ineffective marketing is consistently named as one of the leading reasons, according to industry research on Nigeria's digital marketing landscape. Nigeria now has over 100 million people online, researching, comparing and buying, according to DataReportal's most recent figures. The customers are ther...

  Panuel has advocated a stronger global perspective in the management of African investment opportunities as the continent enters a new phase of economic growth. The investment-management company, with a focus on international finance and global trade, said Africa’s economic transformation is creating opportunities that require both local market knowledge and a deeper understanding of international financial conditions. According to the organisation, urbanisation, digital transformation, infrastructure development and regional commerce are changing the investment landscape across African markets. It said these developments have made the effective management of capital increasingly important. “Africa’s next growth cycle may be defined less by the question of whether capital will come to the continent and more by how effectively that capital is managed, allocated and connected to the global economy,” a company representative said. Panuel noted that African businesses are becoming in...

By Adetutu Audu HERBMETICS, the manufacturing and market-execution arm of the Elsooltaan Group, has revealed results from its work scaling international cosmetics and supplement brands into African markets, reporting that it has taken multiple brands from pilot production to sustained operations — often without the brand owners needing a physical presence in-market. According to the company, HerbMetics solves a specific problem for cosmetics and supplement brands: getting a formulated product into African markets usually means managing manufacturing, compliance, branding, and distribution as four separate, disconnected problems. HerbMetics runs them as one system through two divisions — Industrial Production (covering R&D, custom formulation, ingredient sourcing, manufacturing, packaging, and regulatory compliance) and Market Execution & Brand Management (covering market entry strategy, sales team recruitment, tele-sales infrastructure, distribution networks, and revenue optimi...

 Lagos-built platform combines AI predictions, global match viewing information, tactical analysis, VAR explanations and personalised fan tools in a lightweight Progressive Web App. Nigerian technology company Aurum Digital Consulting Limited, developers of the Aftermail email platform, has launched Football FanIQ™, an all-in-one football fan intelligence platform designed to give supporters a smarter, more personalised and interactive way to experience football. Developed in Lagos for a global audience, Football FanIQ brings together tools covering how supporters watch, understand, predict and experience the game, rather than attempting to become another football news or scores platform. “Football fans already have countless places to find scores and news. We did not want to build another one. Football FanIQ is about giving supporters useful tools that make the experience of following football more personal, informed and interactive,” a spokesperson for Aurum Digital Consulting Li...