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Small businesses in the rural Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal have finally received support to access affordable internet.

*Calls for Digital Connectivity to Close Education Divide The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) through the Digital Access Programme earlier in 2021 provided a grant to a non-governmental organisation, Aid for Rural Education Access initiative (AREAi), towards promoting community-based initiatives to enable students from low-income families access remote learning materials, digital education resources options and digital opportunities. FCDO explained that the core of the collaboration is premised on ensuring children in low-income rural clusters have access to quality educa...

Advertisement After two successful years in partnership together, Future Females and the UK Government’s International Tech Hub Network, have committed to increasing their support for female founders around the world through the Digital Access Programme. The partnership has pledged to support an additional 1,330 early-stage female entrepreneurs through the Future Females Business School by March 2022, in addition to the 316 female founders who have already benefited from this innovative programme. While 42.1% of women see the opportunity to start a business, just 10.2% of women are actually...

Nigeria is to benefit from United Kingdom’s £22 million new investment to build cybersecurity resilience in developing countries globally, particularly Africa and Indo-Pacific. UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, who made the announcement at the National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference, yesterday, stressed that the British government would spend about £3 million of the fund to help the INTERPOL set up a new team that could fight cybercrime in Africa. x Raab said the new INTERPOL desk would work across Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya a...

Vanguard News Foundation celebrates successes in mental health On By Chioma Obinna Established in 2017, Olamma Cares Foundation has continued to raise awareness on mental health and mental health issues in Nigeria by encouraging the social acceptance of people living with mental health conditions and the provision of support for persons living with a mental health condition or in need of mental health support. The non-profit organisation has also invested in the training of mental health first aiders over the years. In celebration of its 4th anniversary, Obama Cares Foundation in collaborati...