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Edem Dotse is the founder and CEO of Swiftly, a disruptive peer-to-peer platform making shipping affordable for everyone. If you are shipping a container, you can find someone to share your extra space. Sending a package by Air, add it to someone who has extra space or yet still collaborate…

VUBIQUITY, the leading global provider of premium content and marketing services, has signed a three-year deal with South African Cellular Operator Cell C, to provide new and exclusive content and entertainment services throughout South Africa. The deal encompasses a substantial linear channel entertainment bundle provided to Cell C via VUBIQUITY…

In developing markets around the world, it is the informal economies that serve as the quietly humming engines of growth. By way of example, the informal economy accounts for over 70% of total employment in sub-Saharan Africa – an economy that includes street vendors, traders in open-air markets, subsistence farmers…

Some people can swear by it; some people do not simply understand it. But the value of the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is steadily rising. Today, it broke the $7,000 for the very first time. This means that one Bitcoin is equivalent to $7000 On some exchanges, it surged to a high…

Is it a play on the number 2 or it can actually give you you two days of power from a single charge? Well that is the promise from Nokia about the Nokia 2 phone that was launched on Tuesday in Delhi, India. And it could be true based on the…

Innovation Village is giving away an Infinix Hot 5 smartphone. This smartphone was launched on the 29th of August in Lagos, Nigeria and we were there to capture the event. We also have one unit to give away to one lucky reader Otherwise tagged the first mobile cinema smartphone, the Infinix Hot 5’s…

This appointment comes against the backdrop of the company’s recent transition into a data and marketing technology business, its pan-African expansion plans The Board of Directors of Terragon Group recently announced the appointment of Andrew Bing, former Chief Financial Officer of MTN Nigeria, as an independent non-executive director (NED) at…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will advance off-grid energy solutions in sub-Saharan Africa through several new awards announced today at the Unlocking Solar Capital:  Africa Conference in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.  The awards provide capital to companies engaged in household solar-systems and micro-grids to expand operations, scale innovations, test new…

In collaboration with Africa’s hottest emerging design talent, Lulu Mutuli and Azra Walji, global beer brand, Heineken has launched its first-ever African fashion collection, unveiled on the catwalk of the closing show at Lagos Fashion and Design Week on Saturday 28 October 2017. The initiative is the next chapter in Heineken’s…

The 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 is currently taking place at Tokyo Big Sight, in the Ariake district of Tokyo’s Koto-ku. The car show started on Friday October 27  and will continue till Sunday, November 5. The Tokyo Motor Show 2017 is be a comprehensive exhibition that includes passenger cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles,…

Okechukwu Ofili is the co-founder and CEO of Okadabooks, a book reading and publishing platform that has powered over 14,000 books, 137,000 readers and a million book downloads. They have bootstrapped their startup for the past three years and are now in the process of raising money from investors. Okadabooks…

Akin Jones is is the co-founder and CEO of Aella Credit, a provider of financial employee benefits. Aella credit is working towards eliminating the hassle of standard loan applications and enabling employees to borrow at competitive and fair rates through their employers. Akin Jones is one of the few startup…

Jumia Nigeria has announced the dates and partners for its biggest sales event of the year, Jumia Black Friday 2017! This year’s event is billed as the Jumia Black Friday Festival  and will run for 31 days from November 13th to December 13th2017 on www.Jumia.com.ng. It will be the largest shopping event in Nigeria with up…

myRunner  has emerged the winner of Seedstars Harare for 2017. https://twitter.com/Seedstars/status/923982663639339008 So the startup whose vision is to change the experience of bus travel, will represent Zimbabwe and compete for a chance to win the $1 million equity investment among other prizes. myRunner was conceived in 2015 and launched in September 2017…

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant robots citizenship. And Sophia the humanoid robot is the first humanoid robot to get the citizenship. Remember this was the same robot that had a recent interaction with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed at a UN event themed ‘The future…

The Seedstars event for Zimbabwe is scheduled to take place on the 27th of October 2017 at Impact Hub Harare This is the second time this event is taking place in Zimbabwe. The very first took place in 2016 where Dr CADx emerged as the winner. Here are the ten startups competing…

Ride-sharing company, Uber, has partnered with Barclays Bank and VISA to commence the issuance of a credit card. The Uber credit card. Applications for the new Uber card will commence on the 2nd of November 2017. According to David Richter, global head of business and corporate development, Uber; “We are always…

Chika Nwobi, founder of Level 5 Lab (L5Lab) has been appointed as a non-executive Director of Unilever Nigeria Plc. He was appointed to the Board on 19 October 2017 and his appointment takes effect from 1 January 2018. Unilever Nigeria Plc. is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of foods and…

22 year old Ibrahima Ben Aziz Konate from Cote D’Ivoire has won the Anzisha grand prize. This announcement was made by African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation at the seventh annual Anzisha Prize awards gala. Ibrahima Ben Aziz is the founder of Poultry D’Or, a poultry business that often has over 500 sales…

The African Leadership University (ALU) and GE Africa announced today the launch of the ALU Africa Industrial Internet Program. Powered by GE, the program combines the best of GE’s technical expertise with ALU’s unique learning model in a 12-month professional training program that merges the essential business and technical skills necessary for African professionals to…