Innovate For A Green Future

  The World Intellectual Property Day is an annual celebration which emphasizes on the importance of Intellectual Property rights and to celebrate creativity and innovation across the globe. The theme of the 2020 World IP day focuses on how intellectual property rights encourage green innovation. It emphasizes on Intellectual Property and Innovative technologies that protect …

Venture Capital Financing: What Every Startup Must Know

Venture capital funding has become very popular with startups seeking financing these days. The number of venture capitalist (VC) firms has continued to grow, with venture capitalist seeking startups having high-risks and potential for high-returns. Venture capital financing are not easy to obtain or close, however, startups will be better positioned to obtain them if …

Interconnected Minigrids: Bridging The Gap Between On-Grid And Off-Grid In Nigeria

Despite the N700 billion and another N600 billion intervention fund to ameliorate the liquidity crisis plaguing the power sector, it is still in murky waters. Along the power value chain we find that gas Generating Companies (GenCos) are unable to pay their suppliers and are currently facing liquidation threats as a result of huge indebtedness …

The Off-Grid Sector, the Opportunities and Challenges for Investors

For a population of about 200 million, Nigeria needs 180,000MW of power, but generates 4,500MW. The transmission company (TCN), which evacuates generated power to distribution companies, has a transmission capacity of 8,100MW, but can evacuate only about half of the current installed capacity. The TCN is the weakest link in the electricity network. As a …