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Leading online classifieds site, OLX.com.ng, recently partnered with Climate Stewards to celebrate World Environment Day by giving a detailed report on how transactions on the site has helped reduce the effect of carbon emissions  on the environment. The theme for this year’s celebration is Connecting People to Nature. Marketing Manager,…

Understanding Big Data Some years ago, I recall going for one of those enterprise data warehouse seminars where the term big data was mentioned and I asked the speaker to explain what it was. The speaker did, but I just couldn’t grasp or fully comprehend what it was back then.…

South African media giant, Naspers, has announced that its Turkish e-commerce and fashion company Markafoni will be shutting down on the 30th of June 2017. Naspers says this closure is due to Turkish’s challenging economic environment. “Despite initial success, the business (Markafoni) is not scaling sufficiently to be sustainable, and in a…

GoMyWay.com, on the 10th of June, 2017, will be celebrating its 2nd year anniversary Nigeria’s leading indigenous rideshare platform that connects people with the same planned journey, to share car rides together as a way to cut down transport cost and build connections. In the last year, the platform has…

iflix, a Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service for emerging markets, has announced its expansion into Sub-saharan Africa with the establishment of iflix Africa. This expansion was announced in March this year. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, iflix Africa will oversee iflix operations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With launches planned…

Despite the fact that English Premier league side, Manchester United did not finish within the top four in the Premier League, they are ranked as the most valuable club in Europe, according to KPMG, a global professional services firm. In fact, Manchester United have been valued at €3.004 billion (£2.61bn), ahead…

AfriLabs, the largest network of over 50 technology and innovation hubs across over 20 African countries has expanded by 11 new hub members, also extending its membership base to two new African countries – Chad and Democratic Republic of Congo. AfriLabs, founded in 2011 with just five member hubs, was…

After 2147 entries, the Infinix S2 Giveaway has come to an end And the winner by a game of chance is ….Araoye Gbadebo. Your Infinix S2 is on its way. Congratulations!!

“Made in Aba” has been known to be associated with imitation goods but that is beginning to change and the Abia State government is solidly behind this move. Aba, located in the southeast of Nigeria and the commercial centre of Abia State is a bustling town of settlers – most of whom have been attracted…

Uber has partnered with Snapchat to rollout Custom Uber filters that riders can use while riding in an Uber car. So you can now let your friends know when you’ll be arriving at your destination with unique ETA filters or simply show off your selfie skills with the new quirky ride…

With the release of the new Samsung S8 and S8+, smartphone enthusiasts can finally experience a smartphone with revolutionary design and layout. The Samsung flagship has an amazing screen that envelops the entire surface of the smartphone plus its sides thereby, ensuring a truly smooth and strikingly beautiful device with…

Bill Gates has shared his list of books he will be reading this summer. Interestingly, his list includes South African comedian, Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime”. According him, “Summer is a great time to escape: to the beach, to the mountains, or to the world of a great book. This…

Four Nigerian startups, one from Kenya and another from South Africa will join twenty-seven others in the fourth class of Google’s Launchpad Accelerator. The startups are Delivery Science (Nigeria): Mobile forms to help large organizations get field data Gidi Mobile Limited (Nigeria): gidimo is a mobile learning platform that uses mastery learning &…

The new published trailer of Spider Man homecoming gives us a bit about a Tony Stark infused Spider Man. Forget the Spider man of the ages. Welcome to the Spider Man of the New Age. Imagine your suit telling you this: Good evening Peter. You have 576 possible web-shooter combinations. Will…

Andela has launched its operations in Uganda. This is the third operating country for the Zuckerberg-backed developer startup. Andela already has operations in Nigeria and Kenya. Andela trains software developers for 6 months and then deploys them to tech companies around the world that need their skills. Andela says it chose Uganda after…

HYBR, in partnership with THNK School of Creative Leadership and Scale Up Nation Netherlands, have come up with a new initiative to help ventures scale up. It is called the Young Enterprise Scale-Up (YES) Program. The YES Program is a five-year venture support and growth acceleration program to enable participating ventures scale…

May promises to be an exciting month for Female founders / entrepreneurs in Lagos as Startup Grindcelebrates the tenacity and audacity of the Female entrepreneur. In light of this, Startup Grind Lagos will be hosting Pradeep Pahalwani, an accomplished entrepreneur, life coach and trainer, who in over 23years has consistently…

27-year-old Godwin Benson has emerged the winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation with his tutoring platform called Tuteria. This attracts a cash prize of £25,000. The Nigerian Systems Engineer designed Tuteria, an online platform that links students to qualified tutors in their area and within their budget.…

Huawei has just introduced three new devices – the HUAWEI MateBook X, HUAWEI MateBook E and HUAWEI MateBook D. The company launched the first 2-in-1 matebook in 2016 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Highlights include: HUAWEI MateBook X: An efficient and stylish 13-inch fanless notebook design with an 88…

A lot of hashtags #ManchesterArena #Manchester #PrayForMancester #MISSINGINMANCHESTER #ManchesterBombing are trending on Twitter as people take to Social media to trace their missing relatives in the aftermath of terror attack at an Ariana Grande music show. It is reported that 22 people lost their lives while 59 were injured when a suspected…