List of the top 8 African cities with the most developed startup ecosystems.
1. Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬: According to the report, Lagos has jumped 41 places to 81st globally and is the first African city to break into the top 100 /01/
2. Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦: 1st nationally, Cape Town has decreased by two spots to 147th globally but has moved up to the 2nd highest ranked city in Africa at the expense of Nairobi. /02/
3. Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦: Although decreasing six spots to 158th globally, Johannesburg ranks 2nd nationally and is climbing to 3rd position in Africa, also profiting from Nairobi's decline. /03/
4. Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬: The only ranked city in the top 1000, Egypt’s capital of Cairo, has seen a jump of 20 spots to rank 160th globally and 4th in Africa, with a slight lead over Nairobi (5th) and a small gap from Johannesburg (3rd). /04/
5. Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪: The city of Nairobi is out of the global top 150 and has decreased 27 spots to 163rd, but still ranks 1st in Eastern Africa. /05/
6. Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭: Accra, the only city from Ghana to make the global top 1000, has lost 15 positions to rank 296th, still in the top 300. Accra is ranked 6th in Africa and 2nd in Western Africa. /06/
7. Casablanca, Morocco 🇲🇦: Casablanca has maintained its growth momentum from 2021 and improved by another 39 spots to 325th globally. Casablanca is now 7th in Africa and 2nd in Northern Africa, displacing Tunis. /07/
8. Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼: The only ranked city in Rwanda is Kigali, which decreased 130 spots to rank 395th.
The PDP, under Mr Goodluck Jonathan, borrowed $53billion in 5 years; averaging $10.06billion a year.
Contrastingly, the APC, under Mr Muhammadu Buhari, has only borrowed $30.35billion in 7 years; averaging $4.33billion a year. /01/
The PDP - availed with approx. 60% more funds from borrowing - had almost zilch in infrastructure to show for their inordinate, voracious borrowing. /02/
The APC - only scraping by with about 60% less from debts, dutifully fettered to infrastructure projects - shows workings with a rainbow of infrastructures - of varied shapes and hues - all delivered with an extensive, … /03/
Definition; Startups are young companies founded by one or more entrepreneurs to solve unique problems in their environment, in the smartest and most innovative way possible, … /03/
Naira Redesigning And A Fated Election: A Nation Under Siege. A Thread.
Beyond the run-of-the-mill boohoos and the usual hubbubs, the Naira redesigning is a forward step in the apposite direction. /01/
Howbeit, as with politicians and their intemperate ambitions, any lofty idea can be hijacked to serve a sinister purpose, at the steepest costs to the ordinary Nigerian. It wouldn’t rattle their sleeps, in the least, not even one measly nightmare. /02/
There’s been some words making the rounds in the vines, relayed in hushed tones, about a hatchet job on the Buhari administration by the ‘Agbo Mafia’ in cahoot with an ‘Aso Rock Cabal’ and their loyalists in the PDP. /03/
Protect Your Legacy, Posterity Would Find You Worthy. A Thread
Expectedly, in the build up in any election year, glib permutations, wanton recriminations, their attendant caterwauling are dime a dozen; /01/
… every Tom, Dick and Mariah could be heard posturing as a self-elected pundit, a fine expert in the art of “Winning Elections, Landslide.”
Who knew?! /02/
At the very nub of the bedlam, however, a predictable sequence of events presents itself, to keen observants, that is. Par the course, it presents itself to bystanders not enthralled by subjective partisanship. /03/
// President Muhammadu Buhari Has Just Fully Paid The $496m Settlement Claims To Global Steel Holding Limited To Reclaim Ajaokuta Steel Mill To Nigerian Government. // /01/
When we pen it, in legible print, to folks, how the pitfalls of the past would always, like dark ominous clouds, plague our progress as a nation even in the present and well into the foreseeable future, they bellow partisan fumes, saying “the past is passed, let it rest.” /02/
How facile!
Now, we are here.
$500million - $496million - of hard earned, hard-to-find dollars gone, with the wind! That is N350billion doled out nillie-willie, with a gun to our discombobulated head. /03/