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GE launches its first ever permanent ‘garages’ installation in Lagos, Nigeria The GE Lagos garage supports Government’s localization, skills development and job creation efforts in Nigeria The Lagos Garages space features advanced manufacturing innovations like 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC mills, encouraging entrepreneurial growth and building a skilled workforce…

Do you know that you can now watch a video on Whatsapp without downloading it first? Hitherto, you would have to download the video before you can actually watch it on your device. Now you can stream while you download if you want. Whatsapp is rolling out this feature on…

Fresh Direct emerged as the winner of the2016 She Leads Africa Demo Day held last week in Lagos. The Demo Day was the closing ceremony to the 6 month She Leads Africa Accelerator entrepreneurship development program. Five out of ten companies the SLA Accelerator worked with, were able to pitch their businesses on…

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced the appointment of Converge Global Concept Technologies as its first Premier Partner in West Africa. Converge Global Concept Technologies is an IT services organization that specializes in the deployment of mission-critical technology systems, solutions and services. As a…

Seedstars Africa will host these eighteen (18) startups for different countries in the African continent. The second edition of this regional summit will take place on December 9th in Kigali, Rwanda. The motto of this year’s event will be “The future built in Africa” and it will bring together 30 of…

The patented Nigerian App MyAds silently introduced new features we believe you have to see.  They initially called MyAds App, an advertising app that allows you to earn points when you recieve calls, but we caught an upgrade online yesterday and the features are really impressive. They have introduced what…

AFIF 2017’s focus is to promote access to finance and strengthen entrepreneurship in Africa. To achieve this, EMRC is launching the annual “AFIF Entrepreneurship Award”, calling all African-based entrepreneurs to participate in this renowned award, which will be followed by international partners, leading African businesses and international media. This year’s award,…

Nigerian creators  NdaniTV, Channels TV, MarkAngel Comedy, IbakaTV/Nollywood were among the winners of the YouTube Africa Creator awards that took place in Johannesburg South Africa on Friday, November 11, 2016. This is the first YouTube Africa Creator awards and it seeks to celebrate the incredible creativity and talent on YouTube from across…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a total of $4 million to eight startups that are revolutionizing household solar power across Africa through the Scaling Off-Grid Energy: Grand Challenge for Development. The announcement was made by Power Africa Coordinator Andrew M. Herscowitz at the 22nd session of the UN Climate…

Social entrepreneurs are individuals whose innovative solutions help solve society’s most pressing social challenges. They draw on business techniques to find solutions to the everyday challenges that confront us in society but unlike regular entrepreneurs their primary aim is to create impact and improve lives, not to make profit. However,…

I remember there was a time when Nigeria (in 2009) passed a law that all commercial motorcyclists and passengers on bikes must wear helmets. It was a major issue for the passengers of commercial bike riders in Nigeria (okadas) as they didn’t want contract any hair infectious diseases. And the commercial…

Jaguar has unveiled its first all-electric sports car – the Jaguar I-Pace concept. The SUV was introduced at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week. It is thought that this will put Jaguar in direct competition with Tesla, particularly with the Model X. The I-Pace runs off a liquid-cooled 90kWh lithium…

Jumia Travel Nigeria has celebrated its 3rd year of doing business in the country and also marked the second edition of its awards ceremony at Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island today. A total of 28 Lagos hotels were awarded under five categories namely, Customer Choice, Best Partner Hotel, Best Hotel Partner,…

MedTrucks, Nanoé, MaTontine have won in the 2016 Orange Social Venture Prize or Africa and the Middle East. The announcement was made by Bruno Mettling, CEO of Orange MEA during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town, South Africa, last night. The Orange Social Venture prize aims to encourage start-ups in Africa and Middle…

Agric-tech startup, WeFarm has secured £1.3m in seed funding. The peer-to-peer agtech network that enables small-scale farmers to access and share vital agricultural information even without internet, has also reached over 100,000 users. The round is led by LocalGlobe, a UK-based venture capital firm focused on seed investing, whose other investments…

Celebrating four years of technology innovation, Infinix Mobility Nigeria launched two new smartphones yesterday at a press briefing held in Lagos – “the Infinix Zero 4” and “Infinix Zero 4 Plus”. Speaking about the flagship launch and celebrating 4 years of existence, Regional country manager, Bruno Li described his excitement…

Messaging pioneer Jongla today announced that the company has secured €5 million in a Series B investment round. This makes a total of €12 million that it has secured to date. Investors in this new round include Arto Boman, Henry Sjöman, Matti Kallio, Gustav Nyberg, Kristian Pentti, Circlion Capital Oy, Kontino Invest Oy,…

Cactus Capital, the investment arm of Cactus Advisors, announced that it has invested undisclosed amounts into two new African ventures – Flutterwave and E-Factor. The announcement was made by Cactus Advisors’ founder and CEO, Zach George at the Allan Gray Orbis E2 Accelerator program at Standard Bank Future Labs in Cape Town. He said…

The Bosch Power Box (BPB) in Nigeria will increase the success it has already established in Sokoban Wood Village, Kumasi Ghana, launched in 2016. German -based multinational, Bosch Group, is set to bring the BPB concept to African artisans, the informal sector, often the driving force of African economies. This…

Safaricom’s taxi hailing service, Little, is coming to Nigeria in 2017. This announcement was made by Kamal Budhabhatti, CEO, Craft Silicon, speaking at a Fireside Chat at CIO 100 on Thursday evening. “We are now only operating in Kenya but we are launching in Uganda soon. Safaricom is a good partner…