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The Rise Of Entrepreneurship In Nigeria

The rise of entrepreneurship in Nigeria has fueled innovate startups and small businesses, driving economic growth and job creation. In recent years, Nigeria has emerged as a vibrant hub for entrepreneurship showcasing a remarkable transformation in its economic landscape. As the economy continues to develop and diversify, more and more individuals are taking bold steps towards becoming their own…

The Rise Of Entrepreneurship In Nigeria

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Good People Doing Good Things -- Olawale and Temie

Good People Doing Good Things — Olawale and Temie

As promised yesterday, here it is, only a day late, this week’s ‘good people’ post!  Thanks so much to those of you who suggested that I should be the ‘good people’ of the week!  You brought a smile, and I so appreciate the encouragement, the vote of confidence.  But, in truth, I don’t see myself as a ‘good people’, especially as compared to the good people I write about who are out there doingth…

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CSR: Renmoney staff donate blood in partnership with lifeBank Employees at Renmoney, one of Nigeria’s leading fintech companies, in partnership with Lifebank, recently donated over 65 pints of much-needed blood that will be used to treat patients in life-threatening situations.

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#IWD2018♀ + #WB4G! Find Out How Temie Giwa-Tubosun Is Using Innovative Tech to Meet the Critical Needs of Dying Nigerians ** @temiegiwa is the 32-year-old creative force behind #Lifebank, an innovative approach to healthcare that can mean the difference between life and death. Born in Ila Orangun, Giwa-Tubosun lived in Nigeria until the age of 15, when she joined her parents in the United States. She was intent on becoming a lawyer until she participated in a mock United Nations—suddenly, she knew that Africa was her destiny. On a past short trip to Kano, Nigeria, Giwa-Tubosun worked with a non-governmental organization that provides health services to impoverished women in northern Nigeria. One of those women was Aisha, who died as a result of post-partum hemorrhaging. There was no blood available for her, so Giwa-Tubosun and other healthcare workers could only look on helplessly. “I will never forgot her courage in the face of unimaginable pain,” said Giwa-Tubosun. “She inspires my work every single day.” Giwa-Tubosun was determined to find an answer. Her resolve was amplified when she gave birth to her own son and experienced the same problems Aisha did. “I survived because I was in the United States and was lucky though to have access to good healthcare,” said Giwa-Tubosun. “After that, I decided to move back home to Nigeria and help solve the problem of maternal mortality.” According to the World Health Organization, shortages of essential supplies, especially blood, cause 26,000 women to die in childbirth in Nigeria every year; worldwide, these shortages are the highest cause of maternal mortality. To tackle the problem, Giwa-Tubosun first spent a year consulting with experts, learning as much as she could. “I soon realized that the problem was much larger than I had thought—it affects women, of course, but also children under five who have malaria, accident victims, cancer patients, kidney dialysis patients, people in car accidents…. In fact, one out of three people entering a hospital needs blood. #sparknews #internationalwomensday #iwd2018 #imagetv

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“I knew what I wanted” – Temie Giwa-Tunbosun talks to Dotun on “Building the Future” Podcast

Hello BellaNaijarians,

After a stellar first season featuring industry leaders like Mark Essien, Oby Ezekwesili, Marek Zmyslowski, who are writing a new narrative of Africa, the 2nd season of Building the Future Podcast with Dotun Olowoporoku has started.

This new season continues in the same fashion, with entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and founders of startups who are writing the narrative…

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A couple of years ago, December 4, 2009, precisely, I wrote a blogpost in which I lamented a discriminatory practice in the blood donation system on the American campus where I was working then a visiting scholar. Because I was a Nigerian and for no other reason, I had been turned back from giving blood. Two years later, this time as a Masters student in the same university, I wrote a second report, acknowledging a change I noticed in the policy.

Since that first encounter, through the second one, the availability of blood (and the policies behind blood donation drives around the country) had remained on my mind as an abiding interest. So when, back in Nigeria, I was called into the founding of the One Percent Project and the Ten Thousand Donor project which both aim to make access to safe and healthy blood affordable and available through the means of information technology-driven applications, I jumped into it.

It has been fun, and enlightening, and rewarding. Since the founding of the organization in May 2012, the One Percent Project has helped facilitate the collection of about 754 pints of blood from young professionals from around the country, through the Nigerian National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) who then give it to hospitals where they are needed, thus potentially saving about 2262 lives (since a pint of blood is reputed to be able to save about three human lives).

But that was just the beginning. Since yesterday, June 14, the best tech volunteers, programmers and hackers from around Nigeria have gathered at the Co-Creation Yaba to collaborate with the One Percent Project to create an app that can make it easier for potential donors to link up with blood donation centres around the country, and especially for patients needing blood to connect with willing donors who have signed up to be called whenever the situation arises.

I will be part of the event, tweeting nuggets, pictures, and thoughts via my twitter feed@baroka. At 4pm on Sunday, at the Audax Solutions Office (at Plot 24, Block 113, Adebisi Ogunniyi Crescent, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos‎),  the app, called the LifeBank App, will be publicly launched. There will be bloggers, social media personalities, print media practitioners, and other trustees present.

If you can make it, it would be nice to see you there too. Please register to attend here. It would be nice to introduce you to the advances this new generation of Nigerian youths are making to make the future much better than the present.

The LifeApp Facebook page has been set up, as well as a twitter page. Conversations on the hackaton and the app launch will be on twitter under the hashtags #hack4health and #LifeBank.

Kola Tubosun.

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