December 8, 2021 | Africa CEO Voices

Tomie Balogun – The young lady blazing investment trails in Nigeria.

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Tomie Balogun is an Innovator and award-winning leader in the financial services industry in Africa with over 15 years’ worth of experience across management consulting, telecommunications, investment advisory and Fintech. She is the Founder of The Green Investment Club which has recently been gaining international recognition for its efforts in improving financial literacy in Nigeria. The CEO Business Africa magazine had an opportunity to chat with Balogun who is also the CEO of the Vestract Company on how her club is influencing investment in Africa.

Dangote Group: The home of Africa’s most valuable brands

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

With 18 subsidiaries operating in ten African countries, Aliko Dngote’s group has emerged the Most Valuable Brand in Nigeria in 2020 for the third year consecutively and named the most admired African brand.

Jibril Omar: Leading Ofgen to a future of solar power

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Most solar companies in Kenya and in other parts of Africa tend to focus on community and domestic consumers and unlike them Ofgen, through research and development background, saw a business viability and went into; the commercial market because it is the most difficult to crack but offers the highest rewards.

Rebecca Johnson: Leading JETHQ to easen aircraft buying

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Building on its international sales growth of the past year, JetHQ has targeted expansions throughout Africa, with offices in Egypt and Dubai, the company promises bespoke services to clients in the North, West, South, and East of Africa

Fintech ImaliPay enters South African market

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

SOUTH AFRICA – Financial services platform for gig economy workers ImaliPay has entered the South African market, its third major African market after Nigeria and Kenya, aiming to help more of Africa’s gig economy workers improve their financial security and shape their journey towards financial freedom. Co-founded in 2020 by Tatenda Furusa and Sanmi Akinmusire, ImaliPay offers both new and existing gig…

Jaco Beyers: Growing John Deer’s repertoire of solutions into Africa to elevate economies

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Africa is getting to a new era of development and according to Jaco Beyers, John Deere has the mechanization that will leap Africa into the new future with new technology. They have the best dealer network and largest footprint that invest millions on infrastructure, tools to ensure that they can look at after their customers.

Radisson Group spreads its wings across Africa despite COVID-19 gloom

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Part of Radisson Group’s strategy is to rapidly expand its footprint in Africa and the company has a new objective of operating over 130 hotels and 23,000 rooms in 23 of the continent’s 60 larger cities by 2022.

PAYG Solar: Lowering cost of energy access for millions of African households

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) business model of energy access has become a new disruptive force in the continent of Africa for the last couple of years. The investments made in this companies have reflected in small businesses like bars and salons by allowing them to operate on extended hours, save on electricity costs and expand their businesses.

KfW inks US$55.3m financing deal to decentralize electricity supply in Sub-Saharan Africa

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

SUB-SHARAN AFRICA – German state-owned investment and development bank (KfW), on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), signed a €49 million (US$55.3 million) financing agreement for the Clean Energy and Energy Inclusion for Africa (CEI Africa) foundation. The aim of the foundation set up by KfW is to supply climate-friendly electricity to people in sparsely populated…

IRENA partners with Alliance for Rural Electrification to boost off-grid renewables

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

AFRICA – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), to strengthen their existing cooperation on rural electrification and universal access to energy. The MoU was signed in the margins of the fifth International Off-grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC) by IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera and ARE Chief Executive Officer…