There are stories that are told with words, and there are stories that are better expressed with a map, just like the story of the Neighbourhood bankers in their red uniform, and red boxes, taking over the financial landscape for the underbanked and the unbanked people of Nigeria. This is the “mapified” story of how […]
Africa’s leading Payment Service Provider, Cellulant, was a major contributor at the 2018 World Agriculture Day symposium organized by the Nigeria Stockbrokers Agribusiness Group. The event which had the theme “Tapping into Investment Opportunities in Agribusiness Value Chain” took place at the Nigeria Stock Exchange, Lagos and brought together stakeholders in the agric, financial and […]
1. What part of your job keeps you awake at night? I constantly think about how to use technology to capture the full potential of the agriculture value chain in Africa and help the continent achieve self-sufficiency and bring down the food import bill. Africa currently loses 32% of crops produced – which represents enough food to […]
Following the tremendous success of the work we did in Nigeria , Liberia and other countries such as Afghanistan , Togo and others. I decided that we needed something much more superior to the eWallet. We had to be at the cutting edge of technology for Agriculture; I decided that we need to move to […]
After raising $47.5m from the Rise Fund, a global impact investing fund managed by growth equity platform TPG Growth, Cellulant, says the investment will help scale its blockchain-based platform Agrikore. Agrikore is a mobile blockchain-based platform that has served more than 7 million farmers across the continent, better connecting them to the market and helping […]
Lagos, February 2018: The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued an approval in principle to Cellulant Nigeria Limited to operate as a Payment Solution Service Provider in Nigeria having satisfied the stringent requirements of the CBN This approval makes Cellulant one of the Payment Solution Service Providers (PSSP) in Nigeria. PSSPs are the companies […]
Managing your finances require proper planning and making the right decisions. It is based on the principle of save, invest and protect. The New Year generally inspires new habit and goals for most people, we want to improve our financial situation, good health, better relationship and many more goals. Here are some tips on how […]
Cellulant co-founders Ken Njoroge and Bolaji Akinboro has been honored as “Company of the Year” at the seventh annual African Diaspora Awards (ADA) in New York City. The ADA Awards ceremony applauds outstanding African leaders who have engineered impact and change to inspire the African community around the world. The awards are hosted annually to […]
Agrikore also known as eWallet system provides a comprehensive system consisting of the technology,business processes, and a systematic organization of the actors in Agriculture on the African continent in a manner such that it is extremely de-risked and investable to a interested investors which may be individuals or institutions on a large scale. This has […]
To honor World Food Day, Iowa State hosted a lecture titled “The 2017 Norman Borlaug Lecture,” during which many points were made on how Africa could potentially help solve the world’s ever-growing hunger problem and solve Africa’s own hunger and poverty. The evening’s lecturer was the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate Akinwumi Adesina, president of […]
Africa’s future is banked on Agriculture which currently accounts for two thirds of livelihoods and food accounts for two thirds of the household budgets. Most farmers are about 55 years and life-expectancy averages between 55–60 years. We spend more than $35B in food imports to feed its growing population. This is worrying and could prove […]