ALX, a leading tech career accelerator fostering a vibrant community of young talent across Africa, hosted a Parents Forum in Lagos to spotlight its innovative ALX Pathway Programme. This unique initiative opens opportunities for young Africans to pursue degrees at globally renowned partner institutions, empowering participants with the tools and networks to succeed.
To bolster awareness for this new innovative programme and build trust among key stakeholders, the tech accelerator hosted an insightful and engaging Parents Forum in Lagos.
The forum provided an interactive platform to showcase the programme’s offerings, including access to peer communities, professional network events, mentorship, and personalized guidance for applications to partner universities. The event featured testimonials from current participants and a live session with a representative...
The delicate art of balancing work and play is especially crucial for students, who must navigate the demands of their academic responsibilities while also finding time to relax and enjoy leisure activities.
Striking the right balance is not only important for maintaining mental and emotional well-being; it's also critical for sustaining motivation and productivity in the long run. Whether you're juggling a demanding course load or engaging in extracurricular activities, understanding how to effectively manage your time can be the key to success.
In this article, we explore the strategies and insights that can help students create a well-rounded and fulfilling lifestyle.
Understanding the Work-Play Balance: Why It Matters for Students
The pursuit of knowledge is demanding, often requiring students to prioritize their...
It is amazing to look backwards and realize that how technology and inventions have made our lives simpler. If someone from 100 years ago visits the present world, they would think that this is a mere dream or a whole another dimension. Same could be said for the advancements in the healthcare sector.
Areas like biotechnology, information technology, pharmaceuticals and development of medical devices have made significant contributions improve the health of people all around the world. In this article, we have discussed how technology is shaping the present health industry -
Enhanced Research
Understanding a disease or its root cause has...
Remember how kids (and adults, too) used to save pennies, coins, and notes in physical piggybanks some decades ago PiggyBank.NG is an innovative, digital, and new-school version with an improved, fun, and rewarding model of saving. Basically, Piggybank.NG is a platform available on Web, Android, and iOS that allows individuals with debit cards easily save and invest money with ease.
Asides from curtailing excessive and uncontrolled spending by allowing users save periodically towards specific goals or targets, PiggyBank.NG adds a bit of fun, reward and convenience to the used-to-be-difficult act of saving. But before delving to the details of the...
As technology rises, the evolution of every sector in the world also progresses. Technological advancement creates limitless possibilities making every task better and easier. There are waves of innovations from gadgets to smart homes and appliances that can provide comfort to people. Now, tech also influences construction innovations.
Innovators continuously create advances in the construction industry. These advancements can enhance and improve the existing materials and techniques used for constructing buildings and other structures. With that mentioned, here are five innovations today that can improve the performance of the construction sector.
Self-healing Concrete
Concrete is one of the most used components...
Finding your next apartment is a tough job because you’d need ample time and a lot of effort before you can choose the best place. You need to be patient because most of the available apartments might come and go in just a few moments.
Fortunately, you can now benefit from getting the list of available apartments in just one tap of your finger using the mobile rental apps. These apps can cater to your immediate needs. Each app can provide you a list of available apartments to get a lease.
Here is a list of these rental apps to help...
Even though women presently make up more than half of the entire US workforce, their representation in the tech industry is still low at less than 20 percent. Several factors are leading to this trend.
Two of these factors are gender inequality and the lack of female mentors that cause women to lose interest in pursuing a tech career.
Given these facts, you can’t help but think how empowered women who are currently working in this male-dominated industry are faring.
What are their motivations, and what can they say to inspire more women to break into this industry? If you’re a woman...
Want your restaurant to stand out from the rest? You’ve got a great menu and now want to excel at service? Consider, a full stack restaurant management system.
A restaurant management system is the complete integrated software system for your restaurant that helps you stay on top of all your essential processes. It is the solution a restaurant needs, across online ordering, table reservations, billing, inventory management, accounting, security, marketing & CRM, analytics, loyalty, payments, employee scheduling, and payroll management.
A restaurant management system lets your software carry out the day to day functions. Customer data that comes into...
The industrial internet of things can help you achieve new heights in your commercial endeavors. You may struggle with keeping track of electrical systems, or deal with breaking parts consistently.
You may always be on the lookout for more information about how your plant is running and what is the most efficient part of your assembly line. Using the industrial internet of things can change that and give you more data points to work from than you ever thought possible.
From packaging to assembly lines, the industrial internet of things has data management covered for complex operations. The challenge lies in...
The growth of any company or manufacturing unit is solely reliant on the quality management roles. Therefore, it is important for us to know what exactly Quality Management is.
Quality management is the process of ensuring that the output products, which are ready for release in the market, maintain all manufacturing standards. It helps a company retain clients and stay ahead of the competition. Quality must be maintained and followed every step of the way.
It helps in providing products of high quality. If you can produce products, which meet international standards, then your chances of improving your business, stands high....
Any employer has his/her particular issues, but some are common and one of the main struggles that any employer goes through is workplace safety. The more you’re looking into it, the more you realize that there are many problems to take into consideration.
Is safety at work a real problem?
Even if construction and mining industries are some of the most obvious examples that come to mind when we talk about the safety of the workplace, all businesses need to take care of their employees, one way or another.
It may sound incredible, but according to the United States Department of Labor,...
Too many companies are throwing themselves into lost marketing without vision and strategy while forgetting to put in place the fundamentals as a priority. Too many companies use quantities of marketing tools without worrying about the optimization and the cost of their marketing actions.
It's important from the start to ask yourself the right questions, set up a marketing plan and a good real estate marketing strategy to generate results. Faced with multiple competitors, it is important to know how to stand out with a refined strategy, which will highlight your services, while offering added value to potential customers.
In a...
There is always the issue with the people these days that how to make their text look fancy and cool, most of them are the content writers and the bloggers who just had needed new ways to make there text fancy and cool in order to make the good impression towards the reader. But you guys don’t have to be worried about anymore I will present you some of the best writing technique through which I guarantee after reading this article can be able to change your causal text to fancy and cool looking and there are many benefits...
Today, technology has embraced our entire world, stimulating progress and inspiring evolution. In the 1820s the first industrial revolution changed economies from simple agricultural-based to manufacturing.
New machines including the steam power opened up business in iron production and chemical manufacturing. Electricity was the main highlight of the second industrial revolution between 1870 and 1914. Together with petroleum and steel, they led to new products and increased intercontinental trade.
Since the onset of the internet in the 1990s, there have been significant cost savings for businesses that adopt internet technologies. By 2011, the internet accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth...
The United Kingdom boasts one of the most dynamic, business-savvy and bustling cities in the world – London. London is the world’s largest financial center and it is also home to the London Stock Exchange, the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange.
London is a major center for international business and commerce and it is also the leader of the three primary command centers of the global economy, followed by New York City and Tokyo.
For anyone considering starting a business in the UK, it’s important to know that the United Kingdom...
Having an idea for a business they say is the beginning of actually starting a business but often you will need to find the funds required to make that idea a reality.
For many, this is where they come across their first stumbling block. Despite this, there are options available that can help you to find the funds you need to get your business up off the ground and moving in the right direction.
Here are a few ways to get funds to start a small business:
1. Self-Funding
There is a possibility that you might have the finances for your business sitting...
It will do you good if you know how to manage your real estate properties, especially if you already own a lot of them. Although there are perks when you manage your real estate properties by yourself, you’ll gain a massive advantage if you’ll hire a property management service to do the job for you.
But it’s understandable why some investors have doubts about whether to hire a company to manage their real estate properties. If you’re one of them, worry no more!
Here’s a list of factors why you need to get the services of a property management firm.
1. You...
As the end of the tax year looms in Nigeria and Ghana, companies should ensure they comply fully with the laws and regulations around collection of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) tax.
That’s according to Abiola Adegbite, Sales Lead: Midmarket and Enterprise West Africa at Sage, who says the tax landscape in Nigeria and Ghana is evolving at a rapid pace. The respective tax authorities are seeking to plug revenue leakages and to expand their tax base by taking a firm line on non-compliance.
“Governments in both countries are under pressure to increase infrastructure investment and spending on social services – goals they cannot...
Most of the time, software applications in your mobile devices give you a lot of ease with tasks that you use them for. Whatever your profession is, there will always be some app that’ll help you in your daily routines. As a dentist, you can take advantage of these mobile dental apps in managing and making your dental practice more accessible.
These apps help you to easily make ordering of supplies, assist your patients in giving educational materials, and make instant communication with your patients. That being said, let’s take a glimpse of these mobile apps for your patients’ dental...
Europe is one of the most rapidly growing regions technology wise. No wonder most businesses are increasingly outsourcing from this region.
Countries like Kosovo, Poland and Romania are becoming increasingly sought after for their remote software development techniques. This, combined with their investment in all matters, education has made Europe a gold mine when it comes to outsourcing software development.
These are not the only reasons why businesses should consider to outsource to Europe. This article sets out to give other great reasons why.
Reasons Why Businesses Should Consider Outsourcing to Europe
Many businesses outsource to Europe due to the aforementioned reasons. However,...
The business of plumbing is different from most other businesses. So, using the exact same promotion tactics as most businesses will likely lead to failure. It is really important that you adapt. This includes all materials you use for promotion, starting with your website.
When people look for plumbing experts in Melbourne they look for something different than with other businesses. There is a sense of urgency for the search.
Without adhering to this sense of urgency it is practically impossible to create highly-converting websites. Because of this, if you want to increase your leads, here are some things that are...
Every year, companies tend to spend a lot of money either buying or selling the usage rights to a software or any related services. This is why software licensing agreements have become more important than they ever were for both, the customers and IT companies as well.
As software is becoming more frequently used in our everyday lives, we should be aware of important concepts relating to software such as its licensing.
Even though software licensing can be a tough concept to grasp, we should at least be aware of its ins and outs in order to improve our overall experience...
With the sharp increase in brokerages and new companies offering investment apps, the options are numerous. Plus, choosing the best investment apps can be...
DSTV is a leading Satellite cable TV service from Multichoice in Nigeria and across Africa. The service offers direct-to-home DTH pay TV services to...
Aero Airline (a.k.a Aero Contractors) offers a convenient online platform for handling your flight transaction. At the Aero air online booking platform, you can...
