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Nigerian Ride-Hailing Startup Raises $5.3M For Motorcycle Unit
Ridesharing // May 27, 2019

Nigerian-based Gokada has raised a $5.3 million Series A round that it will use to expand its motorcycle business. Co-founded in 2018 by Fahim Saleh, Gokada has more than 1,000 motorcycles and drivers on its app that connects commuters to moto-taxis, and the company has...

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Feds Probe Loss Of Millions In Jobless Claims To Fraudsters

May 17, 2020
A Nigerian fraud ring is suspected by the U.S. Secret Service of siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment payments from numerous state programs processing record numbers of jobless claims amid the global coronavirus pandemic. “We are actively running down every lead we are getting,” Roy Dotson, a Secret Service agent specializing in financial […]

Nigerian Ride-Hailing Startup Raises $5.3M For Motorcycle Unit

May 27, 2019
Nigerian-based Gokada has raised a $5.3 million Series A round that it will use to expand its motorcycle business. Co-founded in 2018 by Fahim Saleh, Gokada has more than 1,000...