Angela Essien

Angela Essien is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur. She is co-founder of Schoolable, an edutech platform for education financing in Africa. Before starting her own business, Essien worked as a network engineer at Ettetronics Nigeria Limited, and also taught in several schools. She and Henry Nnalue founded Allpro as a startup in 2017. Allpro offers credit management to lenders and gives proprietors, parents and teachers access to credit. In 2018 Allpro participated in GreenHouse Lab, Nigeria's first female-focused tech accelerator programme in partnership with Google.The company received venture functing from Microtraction shortly afterwards. Allpro's platform is now branded as Schoolable.

Quotes

• Watever u sow u shall reap. Do unto others what you wish them to do unto You.'
  • Angela Essien's speech about fairness.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams , living the life you have imagined, What is worth doing is worth doing well.
  • [Essien's speech about Dreams.
• Little is essentially a pocket money card. It comes with a personalised debit card with a security pin, for children aged nine and above to use and a mobile app for the parents to send money, monitor and set boundaries.
• Parents with children can deposit money into this wallet and their kids have access to it for needs within and/or outside school premises.