It’s not all doom and gloom in our communities. Nigerian’s are industrious, resilient and creative. Given the right push, support and encouragement by YOU, we can help achieve desired and nurtured success through time. Here are examples of what is possible.

Chess offers Nigerian slum children new moves

Crowds of children bustle around chessboards in Lagos, Nigeria figuring out their next moves as part of a project aimed at bringing hope in one of the city’s impoverished slums. Dozens of matches are played simultaneously as participants as young as three master a game often considered out of reach for the masses in Africa’s…

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Meet The 33 Year-Old Nigerian Entrepreneur Who Built A $3 Million EdTech Company

Nigerian-born Temitope Ogunsemo, 33, is the founder of Krystal Digital, a fast-growing educational technology company that specializes in the creation, development and deployment of customized and service oriented software applications for educational institutions in Nigeria. Founded in 2010 in Lagos, Krystal Digital’s flagship service, MySkool Portal, a web-based application for School Information Management System designed for…

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Mahmood Ali Balogun –Telling your own story

“What has endeared Nollywood to the rest of the world and to us Nigerians in particular [has] been the art of storytelling,” says Mahmood Ali Balogun, a filmmaker in the cinematic landscape here in Nigeria, often referred to as Nollywood. Balogun grew up influenced by films from India, China and the United States. “When I was…

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Banky W – Singing your way to the top

Known by his stage name Banky W, Olubankole Wellington, an actor, rapper and singer, put his entertainment career on hold this past year to enter the realm of Nigerian politics. Born in the United States, he returned to Nigeria as a child at the age of four. At 18, he went back to the US to…

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Nigeria: University Robotics Team Wins Design Competition

Five students from the University of Ibadan have won N1 million at the Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition (PAADC) for a solution that leverages robotics and Articificial Intelligence (AI) to solve societal problems. Hive, an Andela-like students-led learning community that builds robots to solve Nigeria’s social problems while teaching relevant industrial skills won the keenly…

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