Transport in Ghana is accomplished by road, rail, air and water. Ghana's transportation and communications networks are centered in the southern regions, especially the areas in which gold, cocoa, and timber are produced. The northern and central areas are connected through a major road system.
MTN Group Limited, formerly M-Cell, is a South African multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African and Asian countries. Its head office is in Johannesburg. As of December 2020, MTN recorded 280 million subscribers, making it the 8th largest mobile network operator in the world, and the largest in Africa. Active in over 20 countries, one-third of the company's revenue comes from Nigeria, where it holds about 35% market share.
The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is an Africa-wide technology entrepreneur training program, seed fund, and incubator headquartered in Accra, Ghana. The three-phased institution was founded in 2008 to provide training, investment, and mentoring for aspiring technology entrepreneurs with the goal of creating globally successful companies that create wealth and jobs locally in Africa.
irokotv is a web platform that provides paid-for Nigerian films on-demand. It is one of Africa's first mainstream online movie streaming websites, providing access to over 5,000 Nollywood film titles. irokotv is a part of iROKO Limited, which is one of Africa's entertainment companies.
Moovit is an Israel-based mobility as a service provider and journey planner app. It is owned by Intel through the Mobileye subsidiary since 2020. The company uses both crowdsourced and official public transit data to provide route planning to users as well as transit data APIs to transit companies, cities, and transit agencies. Because Moovit integrates crowdsourced data, it is able to provide transit information for areas where no data is officially available.
Jumia is a Pan-African technology company that is built around a marketplace, logistics service and payment service. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through a network of local partners while the payment services facilitate the payments of online transactions within Jumia’s ecosystem. It has partnered with more than 110,000 active sellers and individuals and is a direct competitor to Konga in Nigeria.
Jason Chukwuma Njoku is a British-Nigerian businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of iROKOtv, a video-on-demand service for Nigerian movies.
Mobility as a service (MaaS) is a type of service that, through a joint digital channel enables users to plan, book, and pay for multiple types of mobility services. The concept describes a shift away from personally-owned modes of transportation and towards mobility provided as a service. This is enabled by combining transportation services from public and private transportation providers through a unified gateway that creates and manages the trip, which users can pay for with a single account. Users can pay per trip or a monthly fee for a limited distance. The key concept behind MaaS is to offer travelers mobility solutions based on their travel needs. Specialist urban mobility applications are also expanding their offerings to enable MaaS, such as Transit, Uber and Lyft.
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is a Nigerian automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nnewi, Anambra, Nigeria. It was founded by Chief Innocent Chukwuma Nwala. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing is nicknamed Pride Of African Road.
HiOS, is an Android-based operating system developed by Hong Kong mobile phone manufacturer Tecno Mobile, a subsidiary of Transsion Holdings, exclusively for their smartphones.
Tayo Oviosu is the Founder and Group CEO of Paga, a mobile payments company that is focused on digitizing cash in emerging economies. Nigeria is Paga's first market. He is a graduate of Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and also has a master's degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He formerly served as Manager Corporate Development at Cisco Systems in San Jose California and was vice president at Travant Capital Partners in Lagos, Nigeria until 2009, when he started Paga where he is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer. Tayo Oviosu has a passion to help entrepreneurs bring ideas to life and build scalable businesses. This passion is what led to co-founding Kairos Angels.
Swvl is a multinational mobility as a service provider that offers tech-enabled ridesharing services. It operates privately-owned buses and allows commuters to reserve and pay for rides through its app. Swvl operates in 115 cities in 18 countries across Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The company went public via a SPAC merger in March 2022 and is traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker SWVL.
Onyeka Akumah is a technology entrepreneur with focus on the transportation, agriculture, real estate, and media sectors. He is popularly known as the founder of Treepz Inc. Prior to founding his company in 2019, Onyeka Akumah was the CEO of Farmcrowdy. He is credited to have been involved in the success of various tech and e-commerce companies in Africa where he held positions and contributed to their growths.
Angela Essien is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur. She is co-founder of Schoolable, an edutech platform for education financing in Africa.
GIG Logistics (GIGL) is a courier and logistics services company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. Incorporated in 2012, it is a subsidiary of the GIG Group, an intelligence and technology management company based in Nigeria. The company has service centres in Nigeria, Ghana and the United States of America.
Terragon Group Ltd is a Nigerian tech based company that uses data and analytics to help companies market their products in Africa. The company was founded in 2009 by Elo Umeh and Ayodeji Balogun and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria with operations in Kenya, Ghana, South Africa and India.
Odunayo Eweniyi is a Nigerian business executive and activist. She is the Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer PiggyVest and co founder of Feminist Coalition.
Parthian Partners Limited (PPL) is a Nigerian Capital Market Conglomerate based in Lagos, Nigeria. The company was incorporated as a Private Limited Liability in Nigeria in 2012. PPL is licensed and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and an FMDQ Exchange associate member. The company was awarded the Best Brokerage Service Award by the FMDQ Gold Awards in 2018. Parthian Partners is rated as a company with a stable financial outlook.
VFD Microfinance Bank is a fully digital bank with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. As a digital bank it offers free banking services to Nigerians. The bank is headed by Azubike Emodi as the managing director. VFD Microfinance Bank is a subsidiary of VFD Group a proprietary investment company with Nonso Okpala as Managing Director/ CEO
Bundle Africa, or simply Bundle is a social payment software that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies, send and receive fiat, and save in dollars and other currencies.
