Author: Staff Writer

Zimbabwe’s cryptocurrencies exchange, Golix, has partnered with Blockstarters, South Africa’s crypto/blockchain hub and incubator, in a bid to expand to South Africa. Before this move, Golix previously had only two offices in Zimbabwe’s capital with 22 staff members of staff. According to Nhlalwenhle Ngwenya, Golix Director of Communications in a press…

Here is my latest podcast and it is a discussion with Adeyinka Adewale of Kudi.ai. Adeyinka Adewale is the co-founder and CEO of Kudi.ai, a financial service provider that allows you pay people and businesses over messaging interfaces like Messenger, Skype, Slack, and Telegram. He is a graduate of Obafemi…

Publiseer, Nigeria’s digital content distribution company, recently, announced that it has been accepted in Stage 1 of the IdeaGist virtual incubation program. Since 2014, IdeaGist is a program looking for early-stage startups that have the power to change the world.  Founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Bir Ventures CEO Hassan Syed, Azeem Amir, Rahul Ranjan,…

Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s biggest online booking agency, has announced the launch of the 4th edition of the bi-annual HNG Remote Internship program. This edition which is bigger than all others before it, will see young developers and designers from all over Africa get trained. To get this done, Hotels.ng partnered with…

Nearly six months after its acquisition of Jumia House (Lamudi), ToLet.com.ng, Nigeria’s leading online property classifieds portal formally changes its name to PropertyPro.ng today. PropertyPro.ng is a world-class property search website powered by the consolidation of ToLet.com.ng  and The Jumia House Nigeria website which was acquired by ToLet.com.ng in  October…

The official Twitter account of Nigeria’s ruling political party, All Progressives Congress (APC) (@APCNigeria) has been hacked by unknown persons. The Twitter name and picture has been changed to Justin Sun, founder of TRON, a crypto network. The background image now states “TRON DECENTRALIZE THE WEB”. The account tweeted some messages around…

The classified ads platform CoinAfrique has raised € 2.5 million euros from several investors, thereby cementing its ambition to become the mobile audience leader in francophone Africa. New shareholders include Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), an impact investment fund dedicated to SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa, and a pool of investors represented…

Five mobile money providers – Safaricom, Vodacom Tanzania, Tigo Tanzania, Orange Côte d’Ivoire, and Telenor Pakistan – have been certified in the newly introduced GSMA Mobile Money Certification. According to Nathan Naidoo, interim Head of Mobile Money at GSMA and the Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Mobile Money team in…

Ghana’s agritech startup, Agrocenta, has emerged the winner of the 2017 Seedstars Global competition. The winner emerged at the Seedstars summit held in Lausanne, Switzerland yesterday 12th April 2018.  Agrocenta now goes away with the first prize of $500,000 in equity investment. AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder…

Nigeria’s popular internet domain registrar DomainKing.NG today announced that its hosting the 1st Annual ‘Crazy . NG Sale’ this month from 5th April, 2018 to 30th April, 2018. With this special offer, the .ng domain registration will be available for heavily discounted prices that are historically lowest in Nigeria. Com.ng…

On Tuesday this week, a young woman now identified as 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam of San Diego, stormed YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California and shot three people before killing herself. Aghdam appeared to be an active user of YouTube who had posted videos about veganism, fitness and animal cruelty. According to Ed Barberini, the…

Spurred on by the company’s steady growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and in line with its focus on investing in the continent, Mastercard has appointed Raghav Prasad as Division President for Sub-Saharan Africa. Prasad will strengthen the company’s ongoing commitment to delivering value to customers and consumers in Africa by leveraging…

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A Prime giveaway closed on Friday 30th of March, 2018. We had 8,105 entries and after the Rafflecopter draw, the lucky person drawn is …Kamor Yomi Ibn Shobande We have contacted him and he will be receiving the smartphone very soon. Congratulations ? To all those who entered the…

You may not have known his name before his simple act but Ghanaian teacher Richard Appiah Akoto’s drawing of Microsoft Word on a chalkboard made him go viral some months ago. And this got him noticed by many people around the world including Rebecca Enonchong, Cameroonian born technology entrepreneur and also the founder…

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s Digital Agriculture Platform, is calling on people who want to sponsor maize farms that an opportunity will be open as from to  4th April. Farmcrowdy gives people the opportunity to invest in Agriculture by connecting farm sponsors with real farmers. So the company is making 5,000+ units of Maize Farms available for sponsorship…

Mastercard is calling for applications from Nigerian fintech startups for its Start Path 2018 programme, the company’s initiative that supports innovative later-stage start-ups that are reshaping the future of commerce. The programme is open to startups from Nigeria who are rethinking banking and payments and have raised a significant seed…

Digital content distribution company, Publiseer, and music production and beat distribution company, Caketunes, has today concluded a partnership that will see more African musical contents around the world. Publiseer will distribute beats and songs uploaded on the Caketunes platform to hundreds of well-established music platforms like iTunes, Spotify, Google Play…

Startupbootcamp (SBC), a global family of industry-focused accelerators, last year launched its first-ever Africa-based programme. Building on the rapid success of its inaugural 2017 Cape Town tech venture accelerator programme that catapulted Nigerian startup MOBicure and their flagship application UMOMi into the spotlight, Startupbootcamp Africa will be hosting a FastTrack…

Nigerian based data analytics firm, Terragon Group led by founder and CEO, Elo Umeh, has received a $5million investment from African venture capital firm, TLcom Capital. This is the VC’s second commitment from its $40 million TIDE Africa Fund for early and growth-stage digital companies. According to TLcom Capital Partner, Ido Sum,  “We liked…that…

Zinox Technologies, the new owner of Konga, has announced the appointment of Nick Imudia as the new CEO of the e-commerce company. He replaces the former CEO, Shola Adekoya  who resumes at the Zinox Group headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria as Head of Future Business. According to the press release, Imudia…