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Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) FC striker, Sikiru Olatunbosun’s goal in the Nigerian Football League has won the CNN goal of the week award. This is the first time that a goal scored in the Nigerian Football League is winning the goal of the week award. Olatunbosun’s goal won…

Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook, is in Senegal today to find out how the country’s creatives, developers and entrepreneurs are using Facebook and Instagram to bring their passions to life. Senegal is Chris’ last stop on a trip to West Africa which has seen him visit Nigeria and…

While some are still debating how to get people to listen and download music legally, Spotify has come out to say that it has 50 million paying customers. The music and video streaming business tweeted this fact yesterday garnering over 10 million paying subscribers within the last six months. Spotify…

Internet TV company ShowMax has set up its East Africa headquarters in Kenya at the acclaimed Nairobi Garage co-working space, and is in the process of recruiting for a number of new roles based in this office. The new office will support growth both in Kenya and in the wider…

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for 15-29 year olds. And Facebook has launched new tools to help people who may be thinking of suicide, and for friends and family who want to help. According to Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook in a post,  “Preventing suicide is complicated,…

Econet Wireless and Mahindra Comviva have won the “Best Mobile Payment Solution” award under “The Connected Life Awards” at the ongoing Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona Spain. They beat the following contenders in the same category: Mahindra Comviva for mobiquity® Wallet Hybrid HCE solution Telenor Pakistan for Easypay…

Award winning Forbes 30 Under 30 global speaker and startup ecosystem expert, Christine Souffrant Ntim will conduct keynote talks and workshops on personal branding and startup hacking in Abuja, Kaduna and Jos for a one-week tour. The visit includes appearances at the Abuja Yali Network center, Abuja African Women Entrepreneurship…

Following continuous increase in its production capacity, foremost cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc has finally ended the era of Nigeria’s dependence on importation as the company exported 0.4 million tons of the product to other countries in 2016. In its 2016 full year audited results presented on the floor of…

Mastercard has successfully been able to introduce and roll-out Masterpass QR in seven markets in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). This momentum is part of the company’s commitment to delivering efficient and cost effective payment solutions to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the region. The significance of…

Xiaomi has unveiled its own processor, the much publicised Surge S1. Surge S1 is the first SoC (system-on-chip) Xiaomi has built with its owned company – Pinecone Electronics. A SoC incorporates a CPU, GPU, memory, USB controller, power management circuits, and wireless radios into a single silicon chip. Xiaomi is the fourth…

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge has been adjudged the Best Smartphone for 2016 at the  GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards (The Glomo Awards) taking place at the ongoing Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona. The device beat the following contenders: Apple for Apple iPhone 7 Plus Google for Google Pixel XL Huawei for…

Nigeria is the first stop on a week-long trip to West Africa where Chris will visit Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal to learn about the challenges and opportunities people in the region face so that Facebook can better serve the region’s content creators, entrepreneurs and developers Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer…

Swedish Investment company, Kinnevik AB, has sold half of its 13% stake in German eCommerce company, Rocket Internet for €207 million (approximately $218 million) in gross proceeds. Kinnevik sold 10.9 million shares overnight for 19.25 euros each, a 10 percent discount to the closing price. Kinnevik first backed Rocket Internet in 2010…

Samsung has officially released a teaser about the new Samsung Galaxy S8. It will be unveiled on the 29th of March. There was an earlier post that stated that the release date for the Samsung Galaxy S8 would b announced at a special event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this…

Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s leading hotel booking company has rolled out a new service – online flight bookings – on its website. This new service has been designed to provide our users from all over the world with an affordable and an all-inclusive travel platform from where all their travel arrangements can…

Hip-hop artiste and Samsung brand ambassador, Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, popularly known as Reminisce, recently held the maiden edition of his brainchild, “The Street Concert.” The concert which held on the 25th of February at the Ikeja City Mall was in appreciation of his teeming fans that have stood by him…

Mohit Goel the CEO of Ringing Bells, the company behind “Freedom 251” – the world cheapest smartphone, has been arrested on fraud charges. Mr Goel was arrested following a complaint that his company had not supplied the handsets that a phone distribution company had paid for. The launch of the…

TCL Communications has unveiled the latest Blackberry smartphone – the first smartphone announced under Blackberry’s new brand and device-licensing strategy, which saw the company transitioning from doing internal handset hardware development to leveraging our third party partner to provide that function. Built on the world’s most secure Android software platform (based on Android…

Mavin Records boss, Don Jazzy, has partnered with Tsaboin CEO, Dele Odufuye to launch a free WiFi service – Flobyt. Flobyt is a free WiFi service provided at partner locations for patrons of the locations. The WiFi service is made available through an internet router that does not require much technical know-how…

Last year, Google started an initiative in conjunction with global mobile telecom operators, GSMA to accelerate the availability of Rich Communications Services (RCS). The initiative was to enable all operators worldwide to provide an open, consistent, and globally interoperable messaging service across Android devices. The reason was that SMS hadn’t evolved to take advantage…