Kippa, Nigerian Financial Management App Gets $8.4M in New Funding
Nigerian startup Kippa, through its financial management and payments platform, seeks to enhance the operations of microbusinesses throughout the nation and has secured $8.4 million in a seed round. Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph, Duke Ekezie, and Jephthah Uche founded the company in June of last year, and it has since attracted funding from companies including Goodwater Capital, […]
Ecobank Chooses New Group CEO as Incumbent Set to Retire
The parent company of the pan-African banking organization Ecobank, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated has announced today that Ade Ayeyemi, the current Group CEO, will retire once he becomes 60 in accordance with company policy. The Board of Directors has chosen Jeremy Awori to succeed the departing executive as the next Group CEO, and they have stated […]
