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How POS fraud couldn’t stop her from expanding her business

Business Stories - September 16, 2022

She had abandoned everything she knew to start this business. Her husband had praised it as the easiest job to pick up and make money. Instead, it was been backbreaking labour. She was tough, she could manage that. But POS fraud? Chinwe had never pictured she would lose a whopping…

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How a man went through hell and survived

Business Stories - September 12, 2022

There was no going back. Unemployed for years, evicted from his home and unable to send his kids to school, Mr Olanrewaju could see the solution as clear as day. He was going to end his life and put himself out of his misery. How did this ambitious family man…

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How Moniepoint almost lost it all

Business Stories - June 24, 2022

Behind the walls of a flat in 1004, Tosin Eniolorunda and a small team of four envisioned TeamApt.  What began as a mission of self-fulfillment evolved into an ongoing passion to completely digitize the African continent. Together they built Moniepoint, a digital banking service that is to this day accomplishing…

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Meet Chris Aire, the man who abandoned oil money.

Business Stories - June 2, 2022

The son of a wealthy oil and gas mogul and a hardworking homemaker, Chris Aire’s beginnings were anything but humble. He learned at a young age that his father’s vast empire would one day fall upon his shoulders and while in secondary school was already being trained on how to…

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Meet Jumoke Dada, the 27-year-old who became a multi-millionaire by selling furniture

Business Stories - June 2, 2022

Jumoke’s story begins just as she graduated from the University of Lagos with a first-class degree in Architecture. She had just taken up an internship and was now falling out of love with the idea of spending the rest of her life as an architect. She experienced firsthand that it…

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