Author: Staff Writer

Serial entrepreneur and digital expert, Onyeka Akumah has launched a new platform in the agricultural space. It is Farmcrowdy Farmcrowdy is Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform which offers Nigerians a new way to participate in Agriculture using their online technology. In a recent press release, it was stated that Nigerians around…

If there is one innovation that has disrupted the world of telecoms, it is Jan Koum’s Whatsapp. The Ukrainian-American internet inventor and computer programmer has been making telcos all over the world, sleepless nights. Imagine chatting freely on whatsapp! This has assisted or influenced businesses all over the world especially…

The Platform Nigeria is organising a “Young Professionals Bootcamp” – a 5 day in residence program for high potential 20-25 year olds to learn world class practical training for success in the marketplace. The program has been streamlined into 5 key sectors: Entrepreneurship Public Sector/Social Entrepreneur Creative Industry Corporate/career Politics/Governance Speakers include:…

Samsung has announced that it is acquiring auto and audio products maker, Harman for $112.00 per share in cash, or total equity value of approximately $8.0 billion. HARMAN is the market leader in connected car solutions, with more than 30 million vehicles currently equipped with its connected car and audio systems, including…

Obinnia Abajue has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Hygeia HMO Limited. The Board of Directors announced that this takes effect from 1st November, 2016. Max Coppoolse, Chairman of the Board of Directors, stated that the Board of Directors is delighted that Obinnia will oversee the entire activities of…

Last week, Microsoft invited South African born TV show host, comedian, and author, Trevor Noah, to come speak to the Microsoft community. While there, he was invited backstage to chat about his new book: Born a Crime, the importance of diversity in the workplace, and why it’s okay to be wrong sometimes. He…

Fifty-one (51) new emojis have been approved by Unicode as part of the Unicode 10.0 release. Unicode is the group that controls the development and use of emojis. The new emoji are based on requests from third-parties to the consortium over the past year. The new list consists of woman breastfeeding a baby, a…

A glitch happened on Facebook happened yesterday when some people woke up to find on their profiles a memorial banner sitting on top of it, urging their friends and family members to remember them. It even happened to Mark Zuckerberg himself. https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/797177651261751296 Many people took to Twitter to say that they were still…

The Lagos State government will launch the “Code Lagos” programme today, 11 November 2016. CodeLagos is an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Education aimed at educating Lagos State residents for the future of work – by teaching how to write code and creatively solve problems. To actualize this…

Opera currently has 100 million users in Africa, with an 86.41% market share in Kenya, 71.83% in Nigeria and 53.1% in South Africa Nigerian, Kenyan and South African Opera users collectively saved data equating to over half a billion US$ in 2016 Android users make up nearly half of overall…

QPON is said to be the Tinder for business and it is launching on the 1st of December in South Africa. According to the co-founders, Arno van der Merwe (CEO) and Marli Steyl (CMO), “We hook up businesses and customers, it is just that simple. Giving answer to the age old…

The accomplishments of the small business community in South Africa was in the spotlight as winners of the 2016 South African Small Business Awards were announced on 10 November at Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg. In its eighth year, the South African Small Business Awards acknowledge the country’s most outstanding businesses…

Innovation Village caught up recently with Vivian Nwakah, the founder of Medsaf.com. Vivian believes that quality medication is a fundamental human right and she has gone ahead to provide a platform where this can be actualised. Medsaf is a technology-enabled pharmaceutical platform connecting high quality, trusted manufacturers to the African medical industry…

Konga, Nigeria’s largest online shopping mall, is gearing up for its busiest shopping day of the year, Yakata, the Nigerian equivalent of ‘Black Friday’. The main event will run from November 18 to 21st, when the online marketplace will slash prices on tens of thousands of consumer goods. Yakata, which…

Donald Trump has been elected as the next President of the United States of America. He will now be the 45th President of the United States of America. According to the AP, Trump won the race with 56,897,955 popular votes and 276 electoral votes, compared with 55,877,015 popular votes and…

The Canadian immigration website, ‘Citizenship and Immigration Canada’, has crashed apparently due to the increased hits by people, possibly Americans, wanting to migrate to Canada due to an imminent Donald Trump Victory So many people have stated that they would migrate to Canada if Hillary Clinton loses and Donald Trump wins.…

This is a new challenge in town and it seems to have caught on like wild fire. It is the #manequinchallenge. It is all about posing in an elaborate scene, like mannequins in department stores. Essentially, everyone strikes a pose and someone films it. This is the video that started it the…

Online retail giant, Jumia Nigeria has announced the date and categories for the 2016 Black Friday sales event!  This year, Jumia Black Friday will take place for 12 jaw-dropping days! From Monday November 14th to  Friday, November 25th  2016 on all Jumia websites – Jumia Mall, Jumia Food, Jumia Car, Jumia Market,…

Safaricom released its half-year results for the period ending September 2016 . One thing worthy of note is the fact that for the first time, the Kenya telecoms giant earned more revenue from its non-voice business. For half year FY17, it earned a service revenue of Kshs 98 billion which is…

The Toyota Corolla is one of the best-selling cars in the world and it celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Here are five interesting things you should know the Toyota Corolla. 1.  The first model of the Toyota Corolla went on sale in Japan on Nov. 5, 1966. Three years after the…