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Yinka Sanni named CEO, Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, Sola David-Borha Chief Executive Standard Bank, Rest of Africa and Demola Sogunle, CEO, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, a member of Standard Bank Group, has announced major executive appointments and changes in its management structure as part of strategic…

MTN Business has thrown its weight behind the fight against maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria with the launch of MTN Audrey Care, an all-inclusive maternal and child healthcare service. Offered in collaboration with The Audrey Pack Company, and supported by the GSMA, MTN Audrey Care has as its primary…

Barely four months after Uber launched its food delivery service, UberEATS, in Johannesburg, it has set up a second shop in South Africa. This time, it is in the beautiful city of Cape Town. According to its blog, “Cape Town couldn’t be a better place for us to bring UberEATS with…

“G Suite achieved a significant new customer milestone last quarter. More than 3 million paying businesses are now using G Suite to collaborate smartly and securely in the cloud.” says Google CEO Sundar Pichai. This new milestone was revealed by the CEO in an earnings call this week. Google Suite, formerly known as…

Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com’s commitment to deepening commerce and trade in Africa is bearing commendable results as some of its franchisees and merchants have benefitted from the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.  The franchisees and merchants were among the Seven Hundred and Five beneficiaries who received various amounts of…

Early this week, we reported that Ex-Xiaomi VP, Hugo Barra was leaving the Chinese-based company to go back to Silicon Valley because of health reasons. Well it didn’t take him too long to rest as Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled him as the new head of Virtual Reality at Facebook. He will also…

Bharti Airtel has posted a 55% fall in its Q3 profit compared to a year ago. This was due to the effect on its voice and data businesses due to Reliance Jio Infocomm’s free services which resulted in a full-blown rate war. The net income for the three months of 504 Rs…

While digital media has not eliminated the printed book entirely, the decreasing demand for books (and old books in particular) is altering the job of the library. Changing public demands are having even more of an impact on the library of the future. What will the Library of the Future…

Nigeria being one of the biggest smartphone markets in Africa continues to appreciate smartphone innovations especially with the reception ‘Infinix Note 3’ received after launch in 2016. According to Google’s year in search 2016 Infinix Note 3 was the most searched for android smartphone in Nigeria. The smartphone following the…

Shell customers will be able to pay for their fuel using Orange Money Pan-African partnership covers nine countries (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Senegal and Tunisia) where both companies overlap and where Orange Money is available Under this agreement, Orange Money customers will be allowed to…

The Cameroon government has ordered the shutdown of the internet to the english-speaking region of Bamenda and Yaounde. Six days after the order, and it is still in force and the hashtag #BringBackOurInternet is trending on Twitter. The shutdown was advised via a letter from the Director-General of CAMTEL, Cameroon’s national telecommunications and…

American Telecoms holding company, Sprint has just acquired a 33% stake in Jay Z’s music streaming service, Tidal. This purchase will soon give Sprint’s 45 million retail customers unlimited access to exclusive artist content not available anywhere else. The Press Release continues… TIDAL and its artists will make exclusive content that will…

Imagine a situation when you know you are going to place that parking is always a challenge. How will you feel if you know what the parking situation is before you get there. Well Google Maps is ready to assist with this. According to a report on Android Police, this feature is…

Minister Gabriel Mbaga Obiang spearheads effort to become member of world’s largest organization of oil producers The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea joined 10 non-cartel members to cut 558,000 barrels per day of oil production through 2017 The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea announces that…

Today, Ringier launches P Live in East Africa as an extension of the leading new media publisher Pulse and its P Live concept from West Africa – already reaching over 50 million users on a monthly basis. With headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, P Live will be a brand new independent, non-partisan news &…

About four years ago,  Lei Jun (CEO) and Bin Lin (Founder and President) of Xiaomi decided to turn a young rockstar startup into a global player, they called upon ex-Googler, Hugo Barra to assist in this mission. Now the ebullient global Vice President is bidding farewell to the Chinese consumer electronics and hardware…

Technology company, Apple, has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against chip maker, Qualcomm. Apple is accusing Qualcomm of overcharging for chips and refusing to pay some $1 billion in promised rebates. Apple said in its suit filed in a U.S District Court, that Qualcomm withheld the rebates because of Apple’s discussions with South…

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ray Chambers, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 and for Malaria, recently announced the launch of the End Malaria Council, a group of influential public and private sector leaders who aim to ensure malaria eradication…

MTN Nigeria has stated that it will stop supporting Blackberry services as from the 27th of January. It informed its Blackberry service subscribers via a text message as shown below. “Dear customer, MTN Blackberry service will be decommissioned on 27/01/2017. Please upgrade to a smartphone and enjoy 100% bonus on any…

Private equity firm, AfricInvest and French investment bank, Bpifrance, have launched a French African Fund (FFA), a cross-border investment fund dedicated to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in both Africa and France. A pool of diverse investors have subscribed to the fund, all with the vision of accelerating the growth of…