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The Communications Authority of Kenya has issued several measures to deter the use of unregistered SIM cards in a bid to reduce mobile-phone related crimes. These measures were published in various newspapers in Kenya today. According to the Communications regulator, mobile users are hereby responsible for calls, messages and transactions…

Civic Hub, an accelerator for Civic Tech leaders, is organising a Tech Leadership fellowship to to prepare future Civic Tech leaders in Africa. Civic Tech Leadership Fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship designed to prepare future Civic Tech leaders in Africa. The fellows receive training; mentoring and funding to empower them…

She Leads Africa is holding a one day event – SLAY festival – to celebrate all things incredible, magical, innovative, and entrepreneurial about Africa. According to She Leads Africa, this is what you should expect from the festival; Innovators who are going to keep it real on how they found success…

Charities in Nigeria often get funded through donations from individuals, corporate sponsorships, philanthropists, celebrities and grants. While these sources of funding are still viable and active, they are increasingly becoming competitive due to the increased number of charitable causes and limited funding available. For smaller charities in Nigeria, it is…

CES 2017 kicks off today, the 5th of January 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show will run through to Sunday, January 8. This is the 50th anniversary of this iconic event. It is expected that more than 3,800 companies will launch innovative products at CES, including an unprecedented 600…

Are you starting a new product management job soon? What should you do in first 90 days? What do you think you should be looking out for? Join our partner, Product Focus, in this free webinar to understand what you need to do in your first day/week/month/quarter/90 days. Tips, tricks and wise…

Helon Habila, chair of the judging panel of 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature, has announced the 2016 longlist of nine books. The longlist is made up of entries from first-time authors whose books were published in the past 24 months. The longlisted books are Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya…

In an effort to increase exposure of African startups to global investors and resources, Africa Startup Ecosystem announced the launch of the first digital accelerator for the region. The accelerator program begins with a full startup development boot camp covering ideation, product development, marketing, customer acquisition and funding. The boot…

Payant, a new web-based invoicing software has launched in Nigeria. This software helps freelancers, small, medium and large businesses to create beautiful invoices, automatically send payment reminders and lets them accept instant payments faster online. Payant also doubles up as a payment gateway for websites and mobile application developers to accept instant…

Bolaji Kassim, a fresh Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Ibadan, intends to combat the issue of poor customer service by providing a platform, Prissue.com, for aggrieved customers to air their grievances. Prissue.com is an online community of customers advocating for their rights. Bolaji, the founder of this platform learnt…

Application for the 3rd cycle of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme is now open. The application portal is open and accepting submissions until Midnight WAT on March 1, 2017. To apply, complete the online application at: www.tonyelumelufoundation.org/programme. Successful applicants will join the third cycle of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, TEF’s 10-year, $100 million commitment to train, mentor and fund 10,000 African entrepreneurs in every African country. Since inception in 2015,…

How do you deal with millennials in the workplace? As a leader in this age, if you do not know about millennials, you would not know how to deal with them. You may ask “Who are millennials?” Millennials, also called members of Generation Y, are the generation born between 1982 and…

Airtel Nigeria’s new TV commercial talks about how Airtel’s SmartSPEEDOO helps to capture life’s precious moments. It is truly emotional and nice. It is about two men who boarded a bus from the eastern part of Nigeria to meet their families in Lagos. One of them, played by Bimbo Manuel and…

A total of 122 hotels across the country have been awarded the Customer Choice Awards by Jumia Travel, Africa’s number one hotel booking platform. The hotels were selected based on positive reviews from customers who booked on the platform and lodged in these hotels. The Jumia Travel Customers’ Choice Selection…

Truppr has released a major app update which includes the “ Work Out Buddy Request ” feature. This feature allows you to send out a request to find a fitness partner near your location. The feature is on the new and improved app with thousands of downloads on both Android…

Kirusa, a global leader in providing telecom & social media solutions, announced today the launch of its InstaVoice Celeb service in partnership with Airtel, one of the leading mobile operators in Madagascar. Hip hop singers Farao and FlaviOne, and stand-up comic Barhone are some of the celebrities offering fan engagements…

LG has just announced the introduction a new levitating portable speaker which will be unveiled at the CES 2017 coming up at the consumer technology show CES 2017 holing in Las Vegas from the 5th to 8th of January 2017. According to LG’s press release,  “The mesmerizing wireless speaker (model…

Researchers have developed an Ebola vaccine that provides 100 percent protection against one of the two most common strains of the Ebola virus. This is according to study published in The Lancet on Thursday. Though the vaccine (known as rVSV-ZEBOV) is yet to be approved by regulators, the New York Times reports that scientists have…

Uber has just introduced a new feature where you can Uber directly to meet someone instead of a location. So this means you can directly Uber someone when you want to meet say, a friend at a mall or if you are joining your colleagues for drinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTNk3Iv4RNE Here’s how…

Uber has introduced upfront fares option for riders in South Africa. Uber sent an email to its users explaining that they will be rolling out this feature as from Thursday 22nd December 2016. With upfront fares, all you have to do is enter your pick-up and drop-off locations, and this new feature…