Are elearning startups Nigeria’s best hope for a new wave of innovation?

This week, Lagos will host its third annual Social Media Week. Last year, it featured a Battlefield startup competition that was won by educational portal PrepClass. The startup was also named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Africa for 2014 by FastCompany.

A few weeks ago, meanwhile, one of Nigeria’s major telecoms companies Airtel announced the winners of its Catapult A Startup competition. One of them is Pass.ng, an online exams preparatory platform that helps students prepare for Nigeria’s most important university admission and JAMB examinations among others. The startup won one million Nigerian Naira (about US$5 000) equity-free prize money together with other forms of support from the telecoms company.

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