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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…

Adegoke Olubusi of OneMedical and Tobiloba Ajibola of Dresses by Aloli have emerged as winners in the Etisalat Prize for Innovation event held yesterday at Eko Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. Adegoke Olubusi of One Medical won N5,000,000 as the most innovative product or service launched in the previous year. OneMedical is an advanced digital…

Zain Telecom has agreed to pay Bharti Airtel $129 million to settle its various claims and disputes in Nigeria. Bharti Airtel acquired Zain’s African business, including Nigeria, for $10.7 billion six years ago According to Airtel, “Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV and Zain Telecom have reached an agreement, pursuant to which Zain…

The Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) has launched a mobile payment system called microCash (mCASH). NIBSS partnered with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), banks and the telecoms companies (Airtel, Etisalat, Globacom and MTN) to provide this Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) payment solution to further deepen financial inclusion. The banks involved in…

Get your family and friends involved as we come together to keep the doors of Mirabel Centre open – a sexual assault referral centre which is the first SARC in Nigeria and the second in West Africa that provides free counselling and medical support for victims of rape and sexual…

Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone yesterday. It is the Huawei Mate 9. In fact, two phones were unveiled at the global event – the HUAWEI Mate 9 and the exclusive PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate 9. “In developing the HUAWEI Mate 9, we started with a simple question – how can…

Effective today, Groupon closed its shop in South Africa and is no more offering deals. This is the summary of the message that can be seen on the Groupon South Africa site. The full message is written below: Dear Customer, You have been redirected here as you have tried to…

Every year the Collins dictionary comes up with the most used words in a year. It has come up with the 2016 top 10 words of the year. Brexit is number 1 on the list. The dictionary publisher said that Brexit saw its first recorded usage in 2013, but has…

In a bid to accelerate the adoption of digital money transfers in Cameroon, WorldRemit has entered into new partnerships with three major players namely – MTN Mobile Money, Express Union and Banque Atlantique. With these new partnerships, people in Cameroon can choose to receive remittances in a way that suits them –…

These are really interesting times in the cloud-based team collaboration tool space. And it seems that Slack is scared that this new found interest by big organisations like Facebook and Microsoft in this space will affect its market share. Last month, Facebook launched a similar service called Workplace by Facebook and…

Whitey Basson, the founder of South African based food giant, Shoprite, will be handing over the reigns of the company after 37 years as the CEO. This December, he will hand over to Pieter Engelbrecht, the company’s 47-year-old chief operations officer. 71 year old Basson said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Cape…

Steven Udotong wants to be first African -American to build a nuclear fusor. As at the time of writing this article, he has raised $625 of his $1500 goal on crowd funding site,  GoFundMe. Steven, whose parents are Nigerians, is currently a junior at Cinnaminson High School in America. According…