Author: Staff Writer

Demand for Cash Loans has increased by 29% to a staggering 30,000 search requests in the two weeks after the devaluation of the Naira, showing that the weaker Naira has hit the Nigerian population hard. People experience an increase in costs while salaries stay the same and unemployment rates increase.…

Guaranty Trust Bank remains one of the top two rated Banks in Nigeria as shown by the recently released Rating Report by Fitch, a global rating agency. Fitch revised the Outlook on the Bank’s Long term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) from Negative to Stable citing the Bank’s continuing strong earnings, and…

There has been so much noise on the Internet about this new game -Pokémon Go. What is it? Here are ten things you need to know about Pokémon Go: Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game, that challenges users to find and catch Pokémon characters in their real world surroundings. The…

A new music publishing outfit named 5ive Music, launched on Sunday 10th of July at a live show tagged “5ive Live Sessions” at The Bridge, a swanky spot located in Lekki, Lagos. 5ive Music was created primarily to pick up and exploit music publishing rights in catalogues currently controlled by three…

Tanzania’s leading digital lifestyle company, Tigo Tanzania has today entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Communications, Works and Infrastructure to facilitate the roll-out of internet access points in the country’s secondary schools so as to complement the e-Schools Project for a period of 2 years. As part of…

Five African countries will join the global community in this year’s #UberIceCream celebration taking place on the 15th of July. Alexandria, Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Mombasa, Kenya; Casablanca, Morocco; Lagos, Nigeria; Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, South Africa are the ten (10) cities that will be part of the 400 cities…

FarmBot Genesis is humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine designed for at-home automated food production. The idea lies at the intersection of automation, the open-source DIY maker movement, and small-scale polycrop farming. FarmBot moves around in the XYZ space day and night, 7 days a week, growing food for you, just the way…

It all started when the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, decides to stop on the road to make a call. He was on his way to a public engagement in the south west district of Isingiro when his motorcade stopped and a padded folded seat appeared and he sat down to make…

In advertising the upcoming event, TechPlus2016, the promoters put a driver-less car on the roads of Lagos. As the crowds surround the car, here comes Frank Donga. He wonders whether the promoters need a driver for the driver-less car. He is looking for a job as a driver. Watch for yourself.…

Paragon media has just officially launched Nigeria’s premier social marketplace as a melting pot for the hottest deals in female fashion & accessories; hotels; and events. Designed as a simple-to-use app, the user experience is driven by simplicity and an aesthetic charm that gives users flexibility, customer satisfaction and security…

Social Lender will be launching in the coming month in South Africa. This announcement was delivered by Faith Adesemowo, CEO of Social Lender during the Barclays Techstars Demo Day presentation in Cape Town. “With over 10,000 users on our platform, Social Lender has been solving real problems for real people.…

The hashtags #FreePastorEvan, #ShutDownZim are trending as Twitter as calls are mounting for the release of Pastor Evan who was apparently arrested for “inciting public violence and disturbing peace” Pastor Evan Mawarire is one of the proponents of the “Shut Down Zimbabwe” movement requesting for a change in Zimbabwe. He led a…

Lagos Angel Network (LAN) has revealed that three ventures have been picked at its second StartUp DealDay held on the 30th of June in Lagos for investment. The ventures will receive funding from four syndicates that participated in the DealDay subject to successful financial and legal due diligence. The ventures are…

Kirusa, a global leader in providing telecom and social media solutions, today launched myGenie, a revolutionary free airtime App for prepaid Android users in Nigeria. The myGenie app lets Android users explore and download new and popular Android apps. myGenie users are rewarded with free airtime credits for downloading, installing,…

If the advertisements for vacancies in UberEATS are anything to go by, we should be expecting UberEATS to launch in Africa soon; specifically Johannesburg and Cape Town. UberEATS is an on-demand meal delivery service powered by the Uber app. It is one of the first expansion products by Uber Technologies Inc.,…

“This message will disappear 5 minutes after 30 seconds after it is seen.” This Mission Impossible – like feature is coming to Facebook Messenger. According to Facebook, this new option within Messenger is meant to support conversations about sensitive topics. This feature will enable you create one-to-one secret conversations in Messenger that…

Samsung Electronics has attributed the strong sales of the Galaxy S7 to its second-quarter operating profit increase by 17.4 percent from a year earlier. According to the tech giant, this is the highest in more than 2 years. The company said that its April-June profit was likely 8.1 trillion won ($7 billion), better…

As discussed in an earlier blog post, Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S7 edge Olympic Games Limited Edition with the launch of Global Rio 2016 Olympic Games Campaign. The South Korean electronics giant unveiled the phone in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It also announced the Rio 2016 app and on-the ground activations throughout Brazil…

The Innovation Giveaway has ended and the winner is ….Kelvin Numonde from Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. He had been contacted to pick up his smartphone. Congratulations Kelvin. The draw was done using Rafflecopter application and randomness powered by Random.org. To all the others that participated in the draw, watch out for…

From a group of 7 university teams from across Zimbabwe, the Enactus team from University of Zimbabwe has been named the 2016 Enactus Zimbabwe National Champion. Nearly 350 student, academic and business leaders assembled at Cresta Sango Conference Centre for the competition on Friday July 1st 2016. More than 70…