NIGERIA has had long standing gaps in the availability of credit or loans to individuals and businesses within underserved demographics of the Nigerian population; this has led people to experience difficulties in accessing unsecured, short-term micro-loans from financial institutions.

POPULAR Start-up Andela may be heading to the big stage after conveniently securing a whopping $40 million funding, to help it connect trusted African software app developers to the global technology ecosystem. Andela, prides itself on building high-performing engineering teams with Africa’s most talented software developers.

ONE of Nigeria’s energy solutions providers, Cloud Energy, has introduced a multi-function Solar Home System, which it said would keep Nigerians constantly connected to electricity.

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to explain the circumstances surrounding the N2.5 billion it allegedly gave to one of the signal distributors, owned by a private-sector establishment.

SINCE World Bank’s Ease  of Doing Business index debuted in 2006, Nigeria has done everything to improve in its ranking. The index includes aggregate figures that comprise different parameters which define the ease of doing business in a country.