Author: Staff Writer

Digital disruption is shifting the balance stay of power in financial services and influencing the way, millions of people bank their money, make payments, remittances and more, in a continent where mobile phone penetration exceed bank accounts and bank cards ownership, combined. Africa’s highly regulated financial industry now needs to…

This short film is about a student’s documentation of his stolen phone’s journey after it was stolen. A Dutch film student, Anthony van der Meer, wanted to know more about the underworld of snatched handsets. So he outfitted a burner Android with Cerberus, an anti-theft app that allows a device to be controlled…

Billionaire Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg just introduced us to his Artificial Intelligence named Jarvis that he’s been working on all year. Guess what! Jarvis is voiced by Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman has been a narrator of films and portrayer of God in films like Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. Freeman also…

Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade has joined forces with five other artistes like Jennifer Hudson, Steve Aoki, Luan Santana, Pixie Lott, and Tan Wei Wei for the song Best Day of My Life. This is an initiative by Shell who also teamed up with six innovative energy start-ups for the song Best…

Econet Wireless, the leading telecommunication network in Africa, has launched the popular InstaVoice Missed call, Voice SMS, Voice Mail and Sports Services in Lesotho by partnering with Kirusa, a global leader in providing telecom and social media solutions. The launch also heralds Kirusa’s inroads into the Lesotho Telecom sector. These…

Efritin.com, Nigeria’s No 1 marketplace where you can buy and sell everything announced the launch of its 12 days of Christmas celebration to reward its loyal customers with the best discounts on Laptops, Mobile phones, electronics, cars, fashion and beauty, etc; from partner sellers this Christmas. Gbenro Dara, former Co-founder and…

The Federal Government of Nigeria launched an information app (Federal Government of Nigeria Information App (FGN IAPP) yesterday to help disseminate true and factual information about the government’s operations. According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who launched the Information app in Abuja, “the federal government will…

The video replay technology has been used at a FIFA event for the first time at the ongoing 2016 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. It was used to award to a penalty to Japan’s Kashima Antlers in its semi-final win over South American club champions Atletico Nacional in Osaka, Japan. Apparently referee…

Instagram has just announced that its community has surpassed the 600 million mark and the last 100 million joined within the last six months. The online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service celebrated hitting the 500 million mark in June this year. According to Facebook’s owned company, “A lot has…

Uber has launched a new device called Uber Beacon to help riders identify their drivers. The device is affixed onto the inside of a driver’s windshield and uses colour-pairing technology to help drives and riders quickly connect faster, particularly at night and at crowded venues. With this technology, riders can personalise…

Bukky Ajayi, Donald Trump, iPhone 7 were among the top searched terms in Nigeria according to Google’s 2016 “Year in Search”. Annually, Google present the most searched terms or words globally and also per country. Globally, the top three searched words were Pokémon Go, Donald Trump and iPhone 7. Obviously Pokémon Go…

Google has just released its 2016 most searched words. The 2016 “Year in Search” previously known as Google Zeitgeist, provides a snapshot of the trends that captured the global community’s interest during the year. As can be imagined, Pokémon Go, iPhone 7, Donald Trump topped this list this year. Google also…

Amazon’s Video on Demand (VOD) service, Prime Video, has launched in over 200 countries globally including Nigeria. Customers can sign up for a Prime Video membership at PrimeVideo.com and watch on Android and iOS phones and tablets, Fire Tablets and popular LG and Samsung smart TVs. Amazon Prime members in…

Liquid Telecom, a subsidiary of Econet Wireless Group, has extended its footprint into Tanzania with the acquisition of a majority stake in Raha, Tanzania’s leading Internet Service Provider. Established seventeen years ago, Raha today serves over 1500 businesses as well as a growing number of retail customers with a range of…

For inventors, entrepreneurs and engineers seeking to create prototypes, 3-D printing is a dream come true. Building prototypes can now be done more easily, more quickly and less expensively than ever before using 3-D printing technology. For instance, Amazon is using a cutting-edge facility in Cambridge to 3-D print rapid prototypes…

Following the remarkable 2016 Black Friday campaign that beat all-times sales record of + 30% gross bookings a day, Jumia Travel is back in the deals business with a new campaign dubbed “Travel Wednesday” running every Wednesday on the company’s official website. The promotions, also called “Dream Deals” consist of…

Slack has just launched a video calling feature to make communication among team members more exciting. It is not just one-to-one but also group video calling. Slack added voice calling early this year and it has seen a huge uptake. So it is expecting that this new video calling feature will help…

Ringier Africa Digital Publishing, Ringier Africa’s new media publisher, is expanding its news & media portfolio with the digital launch of Men’s Health and Women’s Health in Nigeria and Ghana. The Sub-Saharan Africa content partnership with the leading global fitness publishing brands will commence in December 2016. The expansion of…

Bill Gates has announced the launch of a $1 billion fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures to invest in clean energy. This fund will invest in scientific breakthroughs that have the potential to deliver cheap and reliable clean energy to the world. In a new post on his personal blog “a new model…

We decided to look at the top celebrities in Nigeria that are followed on Social Media. We considered three main social media platforms for this purpose – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We then summed up the followers on the three platforms to come up with the list. So here are…