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...
Like any other country, USA based students are also ever-burdened with the pressure of assignment writing and for this reason even if they want; a lot of them cannot focus on anything other than studies. Life becomes more of prison for them as they don’t get the chance of enjoying on weekends and holidays – like their friends.
To have a better academic life, many sacrifice their social life. Still, they do not get expected marks due to unawareness of assignment writing style. To get rid of this problem, it is always advisable for students to get in touch with...
December has arrived, and Christmas is quickly approaching. To avoid despair when it comes to acquiring the traditional gifts of these dates, it is useful to consider some recommendations to 'survive' the Christmas shopping.
Christmas is Europe's most anticipated and beloved holiday. One of the main reasons Europeans like this holiday is the Christmas sales, which are held by the world's major retail companies as well as local stores selling unique souvenirs.
During the Christmas season, you can not only buy gifts for family and friends, but also clothes, equipment, sports equipment, and household products at the best prices.
Today, Christmas sale draws...
Although SMEs contribute immensely to Nigeria’s economy and also account for 48% of the country's national GDP, as well as 96% of businesses and 84% of employment in the country, it is still difficult to run a startup in Nigeria.
However, there are some SME-friendly tools and solutions that can ease a bit of that burden for the young entrepreneur.
Here are seven apps and features helping small business owners manage their operations better.
1. Wave
Wave is an all-in-one toolkit for small businesses to create invoices, track transactions, and log in customer/vendor accounting details. It also assists in tracking income and expenses, receiving payments...
The ability to write essays is very important not only for good grades at school, but also for the overall creative development of the individual. However, it is impossible to teach a child the rules of writing a good essay at lessons to the level of a qualified paper writer. To form this skill parents and teachers should act in a special way.
At the lessons, children can be told about highlighting the topic, making a plan, observing the composition, and so on. But teachers say nothing about the most important thing - how to create a text of artistic...
Are you one of the many people out there asking how do article spinners work? If so, then you are in the right place. Continuously coming up with new and original articles can be cost, time, and energy-consuming.
An option is spinning existing articles to make distinct and new texts, and an article spinner is a remarkable tool to assist you. Article spinners enable you to make hundreds of original and uniquely spun articles from one piece of content.
The best article spinner comes with an amazing set of features, which include a built in grammar checker, comparison matrix, and automatic...
17th, November 2021: This February 2022, Saudi Arabia will be hosting the largest technology event ever launched, LEAP, bringing together the global technology community under one roof to tackle the biggest socio-cultural challenges of the world.
Taking place from the 1st – 3rd of February 2022 in Riyadh, LEAP is set to become a truly global platform for the entire innovation ecosystem, connecting pioneers and disruptors with business and government leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and more to experience and learn about the technologies of the future.
The event will welcome speakers from all around the world; including Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder,...
If you work from home, then chances are that you'll be spending a lot of time in your home office. Your home office needs to be a calming and quiet place where you can get a good amount of work done throughout the day.
People like to set up their home office in a way that is relaxing, comfortable, and productive. You'll want to get a chair that you can spend long periods of time in, a color of paint on your wall that you don't mind looking at for long periods of time, and a desk that fits everything...
It seems as if there is an endless stream of new tech companies sprouting up around the world. Every day we hear of a company that is innovating industries, from rentable scooters to dry cleaning.
Each of these companies needs to hire tech workers to build the apps, properly market, and ensure safety. With so many new openings, it's no wonder that companies struggle to retain tech talent. Even with free lunches, fancy devices, and immaculate campuses, employees are jumping ship when a desirable opportunity presents itself.
Offering high pay is about as original as a pancake; every company offers desirable...
Fulfilling a request for academic transcript can take 30 days or more for most tertiary institutions in Nigeria. It may also require lots of stress like several physical visits to the institution. ETX-NG is out to solve this problem with an innovative Transcript for Storage feature added to their existing line-up of transcript services.
ETX-NG is a well-known transcripts delivery and verifications solutions provider that offers end to end academic credential management. Students and Alumni can request for transcript from any tertiary institution in Nigeria and it will be delivered hassle-free to any part of world in record time.
The Transcript...
There are many instances we would like to capture videos over the phone or camera and watch them later. You may also want to upload the video online or send it to your friends and family. While you do so, the raw video will not be the fun-filled one. You might require to crop the video or do some editing to make it look great as well.
More importantly, edited or shortened videos will look more professional too. Even though it is sent for entertainment purposes, making a proper video out of the raw clip can create tremendous excitement in...
Think of a typical recruitment process. The HR department places job advertisements. They receive tons of applications, sometimes running into thousands.
The teams must go through all the resumes. It makes it possible for them to narrow down to those they feel may be the best fit.
The potential candidates come in for interviews. In the end, the HR manager makes a decision. The process can be time-consuming and expensive. Whether the applicant will be hired or not will depend on several factors.
Of course, the competency level of the recruit should matter. But there is also the element of bias...
Though home renovations are messy, troublesome, arduous, and take a great deal of time and monetary investment, people go for renovating their houses for various reasons.
Some of the most conspicuous reasons that must drive you towards renovating your home are as follows:
To enhance your Pleasure, Comfort, and Contentment
This reason is the primary one that motivates people to get their homes renovated. One cannot deny that comfort and happiness in a home are highly significant parameters that affect one's mood and mentality.
You cannot continue to live somewhere that doesn't feel like home. Finding solace and peace is essential. That's why...
Raising money for your business is no easy task. Unfortunately, most business owners don’t have money in the bank to support business growth for the first few years. The majority of earnings from your first year of business almost always pays for expenses put into the business and reinvesting to help maintain and scale growth.
As a general rule of thumb, you can expect to wait three to four years for a business to become profitable. This isn’t the same for every business, but it’s a realistic approach to take.
Business plans are detailed documents that outline who a company is,...
Have you ever been in a situation where you’re having an interesting discussion with somebody or a group of people online but you wish you could speak to express yourself better?
If you have, then there’s a place where that voice of yours can be heard clearly and it’s nowhere else but on Tribe Naija.
Just in case you do not know what Tribe Naija is, it’s a growing social platform specifically created for Nigerians especially Nigerian youths to engage in a plethora of meaningful conversations around different topics on social, sports, politics, economy, entertainment and lifestyle.
And if you are already...
"Master Forex”. I’m almost certain I have never heard these two words put together before. I mean, is this even a thing? One can attain mastery in a thing like...like forex trading? Hold that thought while I tell you a quick story.
Picasso is casually sitting in a park. A woman, recognizing him, walks up to him and begs for a portrait of herself. Picasso is in a good mood so he agrees to. In a few really short minutes, he hands her the portrait.
Completely awed and excited, she asks how much she owes him.
“$5,000, ma’am”, replied Picasso. In wide-eyed...
In recent years, modern technologies, communications, cloud data, robotics, sensors, and automation systems have been actively introduced in agriculture, which has led to the ubiquity of precision and smart farming.
And as due to the global pandemic companies of all sizes in different industries are working remotely, even farmers monitor their seedlings from home, enjoying the benefits of smart farming technology.
In this piece, we will explain what smart tech means and how it can assist farmers, especially in the African region.
Smart Farming Technologies
Modern smart farming technologies have the potential to help tackle poverty and hunger more effectively, especially in developing...
The U.S. Embassy interview is the culmination of the American visa application process. It depends on the communication with the visa officer whether the applicant will get a visa to America or it will be decided to refuse him.
In a short time you need to explain the purpose of your trip, convince the Embassy officer that you do not want to stay in the US, and if necessary answer the questions about your background and work.
The interview itself takes no more than 2-3 minutes and the decision is made very quickly. In this article, we will talk...
The advancements in retail technology have been life-saving for the industry since the COVID-19 pandemic began. As many businesses struggle to stay afloat with newly imposed lockdowns, online shopping, delivery, and AI-powered analytics have come to rescue and can trace the new shape of retail all over the world.
Some of the emerging trends are, in fact, so empowering that 74% of American consumers report they’d like at least one aspect of the retail transformation to carry on after the pandemic ends.
Although coronavirus has been the most pervasive disruption for retail in several decades, companies that embrace recent technological breakthroughs...
Every bank has a banking app now but unfortunately not all understand what their customers need. UBA has continued to innovate its digital platforms, seeing as it was the first bank in Nigeria to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into its banking services.
As recent as the mid-2020, there was an upgrade of their mobile banking app and early this year the bank released a new app with even more advanced features. I’ve been impressed with this journey and I’ll run through the new features briefly.
One of the most impressive improvements is the sleek and seamless user interface that makes the...
Let’s be honest, we do not adore those African traditional movies anymore. The ones where coronation ceremonies are held; where the king will be forced to drink one or two concoctions, perform some ritual rites and then finally sit on his throne and have people sing great songs to him. While some of us have stopped consuming that form of Nollywood entertainment, we forget that we live it everyday.
We want to become kings and masters at our workplaces, or in businesses we manage, we want to have those skills that make us “boss”. So, we perform the rites needed...
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...
