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Nigeria’s Returning Entrepreneurs: Horizon Capital Investment (HCI) & Veda Technology

Nov 23

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Kabir Audu has returned to Nigeria after working on Wall Street

Kabir Audu has returned to Nigeria after working on Wall Street

Kabir Audu is a very successful Nigerian. He’s 30. And he has an idea.

“It was Ben Gurion in the late 1940s,” he says.

“He called on Israelis around the world to come home. To build an Israel greater than their wildest imagination.”

He pauses.

“We see Nigeria every day – tremendous talent, this tremendous potential. Imagine if it’s wielded toward one vision.”

Kabir and his friend Tunji Abdul are living proof of Nigeria’s mass migration homeward.

Both were making a fortune on Wall Street. Both were bored. They launched Horizon Capital Investment (HCI). Read the rest of this entry »

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VIDEO: Ghanian Emigrant Returns Home from Los Angeles to Become an Entrepreneur

Nov 23

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Ex-Olympic runner Reks Brobby used to live in Los Angeles but has gone back to Accra, Ghana where he runs a prestigious new nightclub.

A growing number of African professionals are returning home from all over the western world, driven in part by increasingly better opportunities at home and by the effects of the global credit crisis.

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Source(s): BBC News

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VIDEO: Doing Business In Africa – Ghana – Part 4 – Fashion, Media, Entrepreneurship, & Investor Sentiment

Nov 22

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VIDEO: Doing Business In Africa – Ghana – Part 3 – Financial Sector, Real Estate, and Information Technology (IT) | VIDEO: Doing Business in Africa – Ghana – Part 2 – Oil, Agriculture, and Gold | VIDEO: Doing Business in Africa – Ghana – Part 1 – Pending Oil Wealth | Watch more videos on Ghana

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Ecobank Offers N15 Million ($100,000) to Entrepreneurs in Season 2 of Business Reality TV Show, “The Entrepreneur”

Nov 2

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The Entrepreneur: Nigerian Business Reality TV Show

The Entrepreneur: Nigerian Business Reality TV Show

Ecobank Nigeria Plc said the registration of prospective participants for the Season 2 of the Entrepreneur, Nigeria’s acclaimed business reality television show has commenced in all branches of Ecobank nationwide.

Ecobank in a statement said the Entrepreneur Season 2 provides micro-entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas the opportunity to access up to N15 million free micro-funding from the bank.

The main objective of The Entrepreneur is to empower small business owners, promote entrepreneurship through investments in innovative social enterprises, educate people on the numerous strategies of pitching business ideas, and contribute to poverty alleviation in the society. Read the rest of this entry »

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