Spotlight on the continent’s recruitment and markets

THERE is much interest from the internet in Africa

Mark Zuckerberg was in Nigeria this week, where he hosted his first developer Q&A with more than 100 of Nigeria’s top developers on building applications to reach local and international audiences.

The workshop is one of a series to be held across Africa. Among the top talent were:

Opeyemi Awoyemi – Jobberman https://www.jobberman.com/ Jobberman was started from a dorm room at the Obafemi Awolowo University. This year it is Africa’s largest jobs website and one of the most recognisable startup success stories on the continent. As Nigeria’s No 1 recruitment website, it keeps people informed about the latest jobs in Nigeria, vacancies and recruitment opportunities. Owners (Opeyemi Awoyemi, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Lekan Olude) decided to do something about the high unemployment rate and started the largest catalogue of jobs in Nigeria, in August 2009. In February 2012, Jobberman was named as No 8 in Forbes Magazine Top 20 Tech Start-ups in Africa.

Olayinka Oluwakuse – Balogunmarket http://balogunmarket.ng/ Balogun Market enables people to order items directly from one of west Africa’s biggest markets, Balogun Market, Lagos, using WhatsApp. The market traders supply the goods and the e-commerce team handles the logistics from their fulfilment hub located in the middle of the market where they provide free photography, tagging and last mile delivery services.

Bosun Tijani – Truppr.com https://www.truppr.com/Truppr is a social tool that provides sports lovers and fitness enthusiasts alike with an easy way to find local fitness partners while on business trips, holidays or in a new city. If you are visiting a city and fancy joining people for a run or a game of football, you can log on, see what is happening and join people already doing sports. The app was designed by Bosun, who also runs CcHub, after he realised it was hard for him to find people to play football with when he visited a new city.