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...
In the world of business, customer relationships are paramount. The business that treats its customers best will be the business that thrives in any market. So what does this mean for businesses? It’s time to invest in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Read on to learn about the best CRM software for small business in 2024 and why you need it if you want your business to succeed.
Years ago, customer relationship management (CRM) software were merely seen as programs created for use by companies, businesses, and individuals in public relations (PR) and sales to easily store customer information and...
Since its birth in 2012, Jumia has graduated from being just an e-commerce shopping platform to one of the biggest and best processor of payments (see: JumiaPay), flight and ticketing platform (Jumia Travel), food service and restaurant discovery platform (Jumia Food), party drinks and supply (Jumia Party), and recently, the launch of a platform that allows payments of gadgets in installments (Jumia Flex). Interestingly, Jumia wants to do even more across Africa.
Earlier this year, Jumia introduced "Jumia One" — an application that conglomerates and unites all of its services (and more) onto one easily accessible platform.
The JumiaOne app is...
Jumia is, unarguably, the biggest online e-commerce shopping platform in the whole of Africa. And it doesn't seem the company is ready to vacate that spot for any new or old rival or competition.
Ever since the company's inception (as AIG — Africa Internet Group) in Lagos, Nigeria in 2012, Jumia has achieved a quite a lot: expanded operations to over 23 countries in Africa, has over 3,000 workers on its payroll, and have birthed many news services — the Jumia Flex gadget installment payment plan being the latest.
One of the company's product that has also led to the significant...
Jumia Flex support convenient payment for gadgets. Do you have a phone of your dreams? A particular smartphone or gadget you've been fantasizing about? That device you can't seem to get your eyes off? You really would love to own and use it but you can't 'cause...financial constraints. That problem will now become an issue of the past.
...thanks to Jumia and Afara Partners, you can "Buy Now, Pay Small Small"
As every single day passes, the smartness level of our smartphones goes higher, likewise their price. Everyone wants to use the best of phones but it is as though OEMs...
If you’ve decided to start your own real estate business then we commend you! Especially if you recognized a genuine need and decided to fill it yourself. Because a new business can prove difficult for the best experts…if you haven’t mastered the promotion game.
So you’ve set-up your new business and to save costs you’re doing most of the work yourself. But, if you want to succeed at your business then you must understand that marketing is key.
How will anyone know to contact you about real estate when they don’t even know you? And if you’re hoping to get some...
Selling your property requires that you know the pros and cons, what to do and what not. In the eventuality that you are ready to outsource the job of selling off your property, it is important to know who to meet and what questions to ask them. This is to avoid being duped and scammed by fraudulent real estate agents.
Some factors are responsible for causing your house to sell fast. Among all the other factors, location of the property is a very important factor. Where your property is situated has a major influence on how fast it goes off...
Devops - It is a product designing culture and practice that goes for bringing together programming advancement (Dev) and programming task (Ops).
One of the best thing about this DevOps Culture in an organisation is that it is wrongly advocate with the monitoring and automating at all the steps of software or product construction, from its testing, integration, releasing to the deployment of the software in an organisation. Also, helps in management of infrastructure.
DevOps appropriation or the implementation is getting in various companies over the United States, as research demonstrates that the work process — stressing correspondence between programming engineers...
The modern world is the world of computers and the world of automation. Everything from schools to banks to businesses has now been automated in every function. These organizations have taken a step forward into technological advancement.
Perhaps the greatest change that the retail market has seen throughout this decade is the use of automated billing systems.
These can be found at all the major brand outlets and superstores such as Walmart and Levi’s and even at small businesses and shops that need to automate their Shop Sales in order to improve their efficiency and business transactions’ transparency.
One of the ways...
The upgraded technology has become a boon for students in keeping up with their studies. We have advanced so much in science and technology that for every problem of ours the internet has the solution. There is no defined mantra to become a successful student but one can always excel in studies if consistent and sincere.
We as students undergo so much of stress to score well, get top ranks, and be in the good books of our teachers. The ultimate peer pressure and the expectations hanging around at times disturb us. Instead of the get going attitude we miserably...
English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It has now become the preferred language for both personal communication and business purposes. But for many people, learning this language is a challenge.
English seems to be a very difficult language to master with all its irregularities, exceptions and rules. However, in reality, it is a very peculiar language. With the right strategy and resources, you can easily master the language all by yourself.
You just need to remember that it requires practice to hone any skill, and this is what you need to do while learning this...
The main consequence of electricity theft are widespread power outages. Also, electric utility companies across Nigeria struggle with illegal connections to the power grid that generate huge losses and are a hazard for locals. GIS Cloud a startup from Europe is joining the fight to help mitigate this problem.
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company utilized their GIS solution to map the entire distribution network and enumerate customers, an important step in tackling the rampant electricity theft in Nigeria.
Complex Distribution Network
The electricity distribution system comprises of kilometers of power lines connecting the end users to the substation. Without the network being...
Good businesses are built on sales. Great businesses are made of relationships. This is an untold tenet of any successful business. Every business strives to generate profits. But, those businesses which go beyond the notion of profits and make their customers feel valued are the ones that truly make a dent in the Universe.
We are living in a time where customer-centricity has become the mantra of every business imaginable. Unlike the early days of Industrial Revolution, today customer is the epicentre of every major business decision. From timing the release of a product to structuring the after sales process,...
Today there is a near continuous need for companies to keep repositioning themselves and re-work their strategies in the pursuit of success. According to PWC’s 2023 CEO Survey, nearly a half of CEOs believe that technology disruptors like AI, the metaverse, and Blockchain will impact business profitability in the next 10 years. However, this desire for innovation and growth is often easier said than done.
Striving to identify new areas of growth, fresh opportunities and establish plans for long-term success, can be a tricky proposition for both new and established organisations, and that is before a company considers its competition.
There...
Losing a smartphone either to theft, mishandling, or any other mishap can be a really horrible experience. Normally, the next step to take after the occurrence of a smartphone loss is to try to recover the device, before replacement comes to mind — i.e when recovery fails.
The actions below are some of the best things we think you should do swiftly as soon as you discover your device has gone missing.
1. Track or Locate the Device
The first advised step is to determine where you device is. This will help tell if your phone was stolen or mislaid, or you...
Losing sight of ones smartphone (or any important gadget) can easily be tagged as one of the most frustrating and annoying thing that can happen to an individual in this age.
In that time and moment, different thoughts and possibilities are quick to run through one's mind: was it stolen? or you laid it somewhere you can't remember?
Or wait, could someone have taken it? Or is it your friends playing pranks on you? etc.
These thoughts (now accompanied by an increased level of worry and...yes, frustration) sure won't cease till you find that goddamn smartphone. Well, recovering a missing smartphone is...
Smartphone theft is one event every smartphone user may have experienced one time or another. I personally have had my smartphone stolen once and forgot another in a bus I hailed... and it remains an unforgettable experience.
Aside from losing the monetary investment made on the smartphone, invaluable (and irreplaceable) documents, contacts, message history, memories captured in photos, videos, and another multimedia formats will also be lost.
Installing some tracking and monitoring applications beforehand on either your Android or iOS smartphone is an effective way to easily recover your device in the case of theft or mislaid. However, what if you...
Are you inspired by tech or curious as to how some things are built or work? You see building stuff and solving problems as fun? Do you have that particular application on your Android smartphone you wish you could build? Or does your best friend or colleague build super cool apps and you just wish you could be like him/her? And worse, he or she or anybody else do not have the time to teach you.
If you answered ‘Yes’ to more than one of the above questions (particularly the 3rd question), then I’d say you should worry no more....
So you have a new (or old) camera lying around somewhere in your home, or you have one stick somewhere (you can't even remember) in some corner of your bedroom?
Or perhaps you got one from your uncle as a birthday or graduation gift...but you don't know how to use it — there are just too many buttons and parts that do a whole bunch of things you don't know, right?
Well, I guess it is time you dug up that camera from wherever you buried it. Time to put that "baby boy" to use.
Found that "baby boy"? Good, now I'm...
Are you looking for a reliable hosting solution to test out your ideas? In case if you don’t want to make a huge investment in hosting because you are still in the testing mode, free web hosting can be a good option for you. With free hosting, you can enter into the online world harmlessly.
When it comes to free hosting, there are plenty of options available in the market. If you've already searched for ‘free web hosting’ in Google Search, then most probably you would have come across the name 000webhost.
It is the name that is catching everyone’s eye...
There are so many different kinds of marketing these days, one can barely keep up. After considering the popular ones such as digital marketing and social media marketing, as well as content marketing, location-based marketing (or Geolocation Marketing) is yet another important option to look at.
I have seen a lot of marketers do location-based marketing and not know that’s what they are involved in. Other times, marketers don’t know what they are missing out by not leveraging this approach.
Being one genre of marketing that can be extended to location-based digital marketing and even location-based social media marketing, here’s a...
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...
