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Maintaining Your Outdoor Spaces This Summer

Summer is prime time for your outdoor spaces. Whether the kids are running through the sprinklers or adults are jumping into the pool, playtime, entertaining, and celebrations are probably taking place outside. As homeowners begin to hold get-togethers once again, they’re looking for ways to optimize safety, so outdoor parties simply make sense. Make sure…

A Slice of Purpose

Photography by Lindsay Widdel Chicago native Maya-Camille Broussard channels her creativity and desire to serve her community into her bakery Justice of the Pies, named in honor of her late father. What did the path to Justice of the Pies look like? Did you pursue other business ventures before this one? I received my bachelor’s…

GovTech In Nigeria: From Regulatory Maze to Models of Good Practice

Nigerian public procurement and regulation can be labyrinthine, but recent policy reforms and the model of good practice provided by Kaduna State hint at opportunities for public-purpose innovation to flourish in the country. The result could be more accountable and effective governance institutions. The Covid-19 pandemic found Nigeria’s health system largely unprepared. When the Federal…

AI’s Competitive Advantage

May 26, 2021 AI can offer a new type of competitive advantage, but entrepreneurs need to know what it is and how to unlock it. Ash Fontana, author of The AI First Company and managing director at Zetta Venture Partners – a firm that exclusively invests in early-stage AI startups, joins Azeem Azhar to explore…

Hijab: Yoruba Muslims’ll face persecution on creation of Oduduwa Republic – Islamic group

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday lamented that Yoruba Muslims may face persecution in the Southwest if Oduduwa Republic is actualized. MURIC, an Islamic rights group, alleged that Muslims in the Southern part of Nigeria were suffering marginalization. The group was reacting to a Muslim parent who withdrew his daughter from the Obafemi Awolowo…

Ethiopia awards its first private telecoms licence to Vodafone consortium

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister. Image credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock Ethiopia has awarded one out of the two private telco licences it intends to award to a consortium that includes the Vodafone group. The consortium, which made a winning bid of $850 million, comprises Vodafone, Nairobi-based Safaricom Ltd, CDC Group Plc and Sumitomo Corp. The licence…

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