After needless drama, Martha Chizuma was duly confirmed as the Anti-Corruption Bureau Director-General and boy, does she have a lot on her plate!
Even though apart from the inimitable Gustave Kaliwo Esq, no one has excelled in that post, expectations are sky-high.
Chizuma: Honeymoon is over for corrupt criminals.
Her predecessors came brandishing CVs that dazzled. With Kaliwo’s notable exception, those CVs proved to have disappointingly little or non-existent value vis-à-vis:
• Withstanding political pressure,
• Exhibiting Kaliwo-like courage when pursuing ‘Che-Jumos’ and
• In generally making the corrupt uncomfortable.
Here on Talking Blues, we wish Madam Chizuma well in her challenging but achievable task ahead.
South Africa’s ‘silicon valley’ has over 450 tech firms and employs more than 40,000 people
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Cape Town has been ranked one of the world’s fastest-growing regions for foreign direct investment, according to a report from fDi Intelligence, a data division of the Financial Times group.
The ranking also awarded South Africa first place in Africa for economic potential, start-up status and business friendliness.
In addition to receiving the largest number of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in the software and IT services sector, South Africa also recorded the second-highest number of start-ups, after Nigeria.
Cape Town was awarded second place after Cairo for FDI strategy after displaying impressive initiative in creating the necessary infrastructure for a thriving tech ecosystem.
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From 12:12 am WAT on Wednesday, March 10, through dawn, tech Twitter in major African cities bubbled into a broth of inspirational quotes and hot takes. âFlutterwaveâ was a trending topic in Nigeria with over 10,000 tweets before 10 am.
Much of that attention was focused on Olugbenga Agboola, the fintech startupâs CEO, and his team of 300+ staff members spread across their headquarters in San Francisco and Lagos.
Agboola started Flutterwave with Iyinoluwa Aboyeji in 2016. Less than five years later, Agboola – the former PayPal engineer and Google product manager – has masterminded an African startupâs fastest-ever rise to unicorn status.
Akoto-Ampaw Mosquito Square-Up @ Supreme Court Today
Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata
The 2nd Respondent in the ongoing 2020 election petition, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ,through his counsel, Akoto-Ampaw, prayed and been granted permission by the Supreme Court to play an audio, which, according to him, would prove that Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a witness in the case, cannot be credible.
The details of the said audio are not yet known, however the lead counsel for the second respondent, during cross-examination last week Friday, asked Mr Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito, some specific questions about content on a pen drive attached to his client’s answers to the petition.
Startup Guide Nairobi: how ‘Silicon Savannah’ is a hub of creativity, tech and impact
This guidebook covers emerging startups, accelerators, investors and support institutes in this vibrant business hub in East Africa.
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Startup Guide series of books, launched in 2014 by Copenhagen-based publisher
Startup Guide Nairobi is spread across 180 pages and makes for an informative read, with profiles of founders, co-working spaces, incubators, and other
ecosystem players. The whole book series is insightful, superbly illustrated, and well-designed.
“In recent years, Nairobi has developed a thriving startup scene and made a name for itself as a tech hub – so much so that it’s been dubbed Silicon Savannah,” Sissel Hansen begins.