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<p>Founder and Chairman of the BUA Group Abdulsamad Rabiu says his company makes the best cement in Nigeria. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Onyi Sunday caught up with him on the side-lines of Edo State&#8217;s Alaghodaro Investment Summit for more.</p>


BUA Group founder & Chair talks investing in cement

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<p>CNBC Africa caught up with Africa&#8217;s richest man Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group at the just concluded Edo Investment Summit in Benin City and discussed what this summit means for Edo State.</p>


Dangote speaks about investing in Edo State

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<p>According to David Ladipo, the CEO of Azura Power West Africa, the biggest challenge to Nigeria&#8217;s power supply at the moment is its transmission infrastructure. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Onyi Sunday caught up with him at Edo State&#8217;s first investment summit and they discussed what attracted Azura Power to Edo State for the construction of its power plant.</p>


Assessing Nigeria’s Edo State as an investment destination

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<p>At the ongoing Edo State ‘Alaghodaro’ Summit CNBC Africa spoke to Nosak Group Chairman Toni Ogunbor, about his expectations from the three day conference.</p>


Nosak Group Chair highlights benefits of attending Edo Alaghodaro Summit

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<p>Edo State Government is hosting a 3 day summit (Alaghodaro) themed “Envisioning the Future”, aimed at promoting innovation and economic development for Edo’s various sectors. CNBC Africa spoke to Edo State Governor; Godwin Obaseki, about the importance and what to expect from the investment summit.</p>


Why Edo’s Alaghodaro Investment Summit is important – Godwin Obaseki

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<p>World expert on platform economics, Marshall Van Alstyne discussed how networked markets are transforming economies at the Accenture Innovation Conference 2017 that took place on 17 October in Johannesburg, South Africa.</p>


How Networked Markets are transforming economies

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<p>Paul Nunes is a managing director at Accenture Research, whose research into IT–led changes in business has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes.com.</p>


Accenture Research’s Paul Nunes on business disruption

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<p>Accenture SA CEO, William Mzimba joined the top thought leaders and experts in sustained business on 17 October 2017 at the Accenture Innovation Conference 2017 to share his thoughts on innovation in 2017.</p>


Accenture CEO William Mzimba talks innovation in 2017

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<p>The Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company has created a new innovation to unlock 1.4 trillion naira pension funds for housing. But what impact will this have on Nigeria&#8217;s real estate sector?</p>


Understanding NMRC’s plan to unlock N1.4trn pension fund for housing

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<p>The advent of the fourth industrial revolution is expected to impact negatively more so on women as most women do not have specialised skills that will be required for job opportunities. Ndoni Mcunu, founder Black Women in Science joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Tech revolution: Women fight not to lose out

<p><em>The recent WCA Executive Investment </em><em>Summit 2017 is a case in point of how well it works when we put innovators and investors together – and also how much change African women are making for our continent.</em></p>
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<p>By Nnamdi Oranye</p>
<p>Lisa Lambie is one of the most inspiring African women I have had the privilege of meeting. She is truly making a difference for Africa and African innovators and bringing her twenty years (plus) experience to our continent to help form and change our narrative, creating opportunities and networking the right people together.</p>
<p>I recently returned from the WCA Executive Investment Summit 2017, which has been running for four years now (this year, it also included the second Africa Family Office Forum). It was held in Marrakech, Morocco.</p>
<p>What is interesting about the Summit, and what has been key to its successes, is that it successfully manages to do something that I’ve seen sorely lacking in many other instances – connecting actual innovators together with actual investors on a Pan-African scale.</p>
<p>On average, Lambie says, more than 300 executives from around 32 countries come. Of those, 80 percent are investors and 88% percent of them are on an executive level. It’s essentially an investment summit.</p>
<h4>Summit brings together family-owned offices</h4>
<p>This year it also sought to collate and bring together Family Offices. This is a term that&#8217;s new to many, but are essentially investment vehicles consisting of the private capital of families. Family Offices have been a key driver in African economies.</p>
<p>The website, <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/family-offices.asp">Investopedia</a>, puts it well when it says, “They are different from traditional wealth management shops in that they offer a total outsourced solution for managing the financial and investment side of an affluent individual or family.” Essentially, they sit in the space of Angel Investment.</p>
<p>The Summit was all about getting these Family Offices, and the individuals involved with them, to talk about investing in Africa.  It sought to bring family capital and industry innovators, award-winning entrepreneurs, and sector game changers together directly &#8211; without advisors like wealth managers and private bankers playing a role.</p>
<p>The reason for this is it creates an openness with the Family Offices you might otherwise not see. I was really excited about the prospect and the buzz at the conference. it was clear to me that there were real, authentic, and valuable connections being made, which can often be lacking at a conference.</p>
<p>This was also fascinating for me because I work so much with innovators, and attend many conferences with innovators, where the predominant theme is frequently a lack of funding or access to the people with funding. It was so exciting, this time around, to see how those with the ability to fund are looking for spaces to put their money. As I was sitting in this Summit, and talking on two panels, I just kept thinking about innovators I work with and saying, “All we need to do is put all of these people in the same room – the innovators and these investors. They literally just need to talk to each other. It works.”</p>
<h4>It&#8217;s all about action</h4>
<p>Lambie has had the tremendous foresight in putting this together and creating a Summit where people don’t just talk but actually convene and make deals. This is why for the four years it has been running, it has managed to garner a brilliant reputation for delivering actual tangible results. It’s not just another conference. It’s not just a lot of talking. It’s not just motivational. It’s about action. It’s not organised by event planners but by actual investors.</p>
<p>The Summit is run by the Wharton Club of Africa (WCA), of which Lambie is the president. With ties to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (in the U.S.), it’s fascinating to see how Lambie and her team have brought their vast experience and connections to our continent to make a change.</p>
<p>Lambie is also a Director at SHIL, an investment holding firm that works with Family Offices and family-owned businesses in Africa, as well as venture capital. In my book, <em>Taking on Silicon Valley: How Africa’s Innovators Will Shape Its Future</em>, I argue how Africans working abroad can make a difference to our continent here. Lambie is a perfect example of this, and I was struck by her passion and forward-thinking approach. When we talk about Disrupting Africa and changing the narrative or people knowing their change (see the #knowyourchange campaign), everyone plays their part and is a piece of the puzzle in getting Africa where it needs to be.</p>
<h4>Everyone plays their part</h4>
<p>When we talk about Disrupting Africa and changing the narrative or people knowing their change (see the #knowyourchange campaign), everyone plays their part and is a piece of the puzzle in getting Africa where it needs to be. Lambie, and others like her (such as Haweya Mohamed, who I had the privilege of meeting at the Afrobytes Conference in Paris earlier this year – which connects European investors with African innovators) is a very crucial piece of this puzzle. She brings investors together and shows them that we have viable innovations they can invest in. This is simply fantastic.</p>
<p>Not enough of us speak about what African women are doing and the change they are creating. Brilliant examples such as Lambie and Mohamed are not in the news enough, and so much happens under the surface that doesn’t make the headlines. Our women are doing phenomenal work that we&#8217;re not recognising well enough. But if we do, imagine how much more could happen.</p>


Op-Ed: Tangible results when investors and innovators collaborate

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<p>Lindsay Duff, Country Lead for What3Words, who spoke at the Africa Summit last week on the topic &#8220;Disruption is the answer &#8211; how companies can prosper by disrupting Africa&#8217;s challenges”.</p>


Is disruption the answer to Africa’s challenges?

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<p>AHUB highlights include:</p>
<p>1) Meet 20 of the most promising digital start-ups in Africa – the World Bank’s XL Africa programme participants.  <a href="https://tmt.knect365.com/africacom/agenda/3?stream=1#empowering-the-architects-of-africas-digital-future-fuelling-innovation-creativity-and-entrepreneurship">Find out more</a>.</p>
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<p>3) Find out why tech start-ups should partner with African MNOs at our ‘when innovation and entrepreneurship meet scale and reach’ discussion at the AHUB.  <a href="https://tmt.knect365.com/africacom/agenda/1">Find out more</a>.</p>
<p>4) Receive feedback from Andy Volk, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa Ecosystem at Google on how corporates and tech leaders are supporting African start &#8211; ups.  <a href="https://tmt.knect365.com/africacom/speakers/andy-volk">Find out more</a>.<br />
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The AHUB at AfricaCom – Unleashing the power of Africa’s tech start-up ecosystem

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<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, says the Nigerian government has no business doing business, but is rather focused on creating enabling environments for the private sector through regulation, monitoring, and supervision.</p>


Investors must take advantage of govt’s ease of doing business initiatives – Shittu

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<p>For newly appointed Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, Head of EU delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS said an agreement on economic partnerships could help create conducive framework for transparency and investments across sectors.</p>


Tech use in Nigeria on the rise but needs improvement

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<p>Showcasing Africans that are using technology to create innovative solutions is at the core of what Africa as a platform aims to achieve. Eunice Adeyemi, Managing Partner of this initiative joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Celebrating the impact of ICT on African businesses

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<p>CNBC Africa&#8217;s Gugulethu Cele caught up with Gabriel Goddard, lead economist for Southern Africa at the World Bank Group’s Trade &amp; Competitiveness Global Practice to discuss to unpack South Africa&#8217;s effort in enabling environment for innovation.</p>


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BUA Group founder & Chair talks investing in cement

Dangote speaks about investing in Edo State

Assessing Nigeria’s Edo State as an investment destination

Nosak Group Chair highlights benefits of attending Edo Alaghodaro Summit

Why Edo’s Alaghodaro Investment Summit is important – Godwin Obaseki

How Networked Markets are transforming economies

Accenture Research’s Paul Nunes on business disruption

Accenture CEO William Mzimba talks innovation in 2017

Understanding NMRC’s plan to unlock N1.4trn pension fund for housing

Tech revolution: Women fight not to lose out

Op-Ed: Tangible results when investors and innovators collaborate

Is disruption the answer to Africa’s challenges?

The AHUB at AfricaCom – Unleashing the power of Africa’s tech start-up ecosystem

Investors must take advantage of govt’s ease of doing business initiatives – Shittu

Tech use in Nigeria on the rise but needs improvement

Celebrating the impact of ICT on African businesses

Critical role of science, and technology in economic development

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BUA Group founder & Chair talks investing in cement

Dangote speaks about investing in Edo State

Assessing Nigeria’s Edo State as an investment destination

Nosak Group Chair highlights benefits of attending Edo Alaghodaro Summit

Why Edo’s Alaghodaro Investment Summit is important – Godwin Obaseki

How Networked Markets are transforming economies

Accenture Research’s Paul Nunes on business disruption

Accenture CEO William Mzimba talks innovation in 2017

Understanding NMRC’s plan to unlock N1.4trn pension fund for housing

Tech revolution: Women fight not to lose out

Op-Ed: Tangible results when investors and innovators collaborate

Is disruption the answer to Africa’s challenges?

The AHUB at AfricaCom – Unleashing the power of Africa’s tech start-up ecosystem

Investors must take advantage of govt’s ease of doing business initiatives – Shittu

Tech use in Nigeria on the rise but needs improvement

Celebrating the impact of ICT on African businesses

Critical role of science, and technology in economic development

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