Airtel Empowers 7 Startups Entrepreneurs

-


 
Francis Ebuchi, Vice President, Value Added Services Airtel, Geoffrey Nwachukwu, Co-Founder, Sonbim Games and Nitin Anand, Vice President, Data Products and Services, during the Airtel Catapult-a-Startup prize presentation in Lagos recently.


Tomi Davies, Chairman and Founder Mobile Monday; Zubair Abubakar, Co-Founder/CEO Chop Up; Roht Arora, Assistant Marketing Manager Airtel and Nitin Anand, Vice President, Data Products and Services, during the Airtel Catapult-a-Startup prize presentation in Lagos recently. 


Thursday, February 12, 2015: Airtel Nigeria, the fastest growing Telecom companies in Nigeria has rewarded 7 entrepreneurs with exceptional apps and business startups ideas with a sum of 1million Naira each.
This gesture is to support entrepreneurship initiative, empower application developers and startups as well as integrates them into the Airtel network, to enable them operate effectively and efficiently in their various businesses.
Speaking during the ‘Catapult-a-Startup from Garage to Boardroom’ event held in Lagos, Nitin Anand, Vice President, Data and Product Services, Airtel said the initiative is to encourage young entrepreneurs to develop their business through application apps.
He emphasized that the platform which aims to inspire innovation and assist start-up mobile app developers towards actualizing their business goals and dreams.
“The journey start now, you have made the right choice and this is the right time for you to make it, therefore use the money given to you effectively to boost your business” He admonished the winners.
Tomi Davies, Chairman and Founder, Mobile Monday and a partner of the product said that Airtel hopes that through this product, it will employ a significant number of Nigerians because this is about creating businesses that can employ Nigerians in Nigeria, using technology.
According to Davies, “The money they have received today is a cash gift and we use that to help us identify the kind of companies that can take advantage of the Airtel network to create jobs for Nigerians because not everybody can work for Airtel.”
Some of the initiatives rewarded span across various sectors ranging from of Education, Utility, Business, Games and Leisure and games.
Oluyemi Omole, one of the winners who run an online and mobile examination testing platform said that with Airtel platform, his company can now reach as many students as possible and bring more persons into the platform.
He however thanked Airtel for the opportunity and assured Airtel that they will work harder in ensuring students perform excellently through this platform and properly manage the money given to them.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rainbow Fm apologize to the Public for bringing false report on Iyabo Obasanjo

-
Image
  Below is the excerpt of the document: "PRESS RELEASE We at Rainbow F.M 94.1 appreciate and respect our audience. Our content is anchored on the principles of fairness, objectivity, Balance and Accur acy. We recognise that this noble practice requires professionalism, and this is the reason we will leave no stone unturned in informing, educating and entertaining you. We are aware of the falsehood that trailed the December 18th, 2013 edition of the Newspaper Headlines and Editorials anchored by Wellington Olaiya, Theophilus Elamah and Dr. Nick Idoko (on the Rainbow Morning Show) We condemn it At NO TIME on the said date did IYABO OBASANJO, daughter of Ex-President Olusegun Obansanjo, visit, call or make any contact on the show, or with any of the presenters. While we acknowledge the efforts of other practitioners in the development process of this country, we appeal to all media organisations to adhere strictly to ALL THE ETHICS of this whole profession. God b
Read more

Was Bobbi Kristina Used for Illuminati Satanic Blood Sacrifice?

-
Image
Bobbi Kristina died on Sunday age 22 six months after she was found face down and unresponsive in the bath-tub of the Roswell, Georgia, home she shared with then boyfriend, Nick Gordon, 25. Gordon is now a person of interest to investigators attempting to piece together the events that led to Bobbi Kristina’s untimely death. But according to TMZ, he has still written to Bobbi Kristina’s father and Pat Houston begging for permission to attend the funeral service. The email states: ‘I loved Krissi with all my heart and I am destroyed that she is gone and I need to say goodbye. ‘Krissi loved me very much and she would want me there’. The chances of him being accepted by the family are, however, slim to none. The Houston family has slapped him with a $10million lawsuit alleging that he abused her and stole her money while she was in a medically induced coma. While Gordon has been a figure of controversy with Bobby Brown banning him first from his daughter’s hospital bedsi
Read more

How Technology Is Killing Eye Contact

-
Image
    Christen had an alarming wake-up call one day about the toll that technology was taking on her life -- and her family. "I realized several years ago that I had stopped looking in my children's eyes," the HopeLab President and CEO said at a Huffington Post panel at Ad Week on Tuesday . "And it was shocking to me." Christen's "a-ha" moment was an alarming one, but it's more common than you might think -- and it points toward a larger, and often undiscussed, byproduct of excessive screen time. The decline of eye contact is well-documented , and as we spend more and more of our time staring at screens, there's less time left over to look into people's eyes -- including the eyes of the people we care about most. Between staring at computers during the work day and regularly gazing down at our phones, Americans spending more time with their eyes glued to their screens than ever before. According to recent estimates ,
Read more