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Accenture today announced the creation of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge which brings together leading-edge startups with prominent life sciences and health companies to tackle some of the world’s greatest health challenges including access, affordability and transparency. As part of Accenture’s broader HealthTech Innovation program, startups from around the globe…

Underlining its commitment to help facilitate the growth and development of Nigeria’s education sector, Samsung Electronics West Africa has launched its fourth Samsung Smart School Project for teachers and students in Akwa Ibom State. The project is targeted at training teachers in basic computer literacy, while also providing them access…

MTN has finally shut down its mobile money service in South Africa. The African-based telecoms giant alluded to the fact that the service was not viable in a country where around three quarters of the population already has a bank account. MTN launched its South African service in 2012 after…

Visa has launched a QR code based mobile payment service, mVisa, in Kenya in conjunction with four banks – Co-Operative Bank, Family Bank, KCB and NIC Bank to deliver this service to Kenyan consumers and merchants. Initially launched in India in August 2015, mVisa enables consumers pay for goods by scanning…

The Nigerian Communications Commission recently announced that it would be licensing five new companies to deploy metropolitan fibre infrastructure across Nigeria. This announcement was made by the Director of Public Affairs, Mr Tony Ojobo in statement about the commencement of the second phase of the initiative to bridge existing broadband gap.…

Do you want a new smartphone? You are in luck. Innovation Village is giving away a new Infinix Hot 4. This is an awesome phone. INFINIX HOT 4 features a 5.5’’ HD display and dual high-quality stereo speakers for an exceptional multi-media experience. Powered by Android M, XOS and advanced…

DriversNg is an online platform that provides reliable and professionally trained drivers to those in need of them. Founded by Covenant University graduates –  Osunlana Ismail, Audu Daniel and Eboghade Emmanuel, this online platform became operational in Lagos State, Nigeria on the 26th of June 2016. DriversNg recruits and trains drivers to meet…

This is an unboxing of the ASUS Zenfone 3, the latest sequel to the much loved Zenfone 2. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHO6Cq3EtO8 **A partnership between Innovation Village and Geekception

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg was in Lagos, Nigeria some days ago and of course, he would definitely check out Nollywood. Nigeria is the land of one of the biggest film and media industries in the world. He gatecrashed illBliss’ set when the Nigerian Rapper was shooting a video at AfriNolly studios. Though surprised,…

There has been many announcements that Twitter will extend its 140-character limit by not counting some types of content. The first announcement was in January this year, but it didn’t happen. The rumour came up again in May and died down. It didn’t happen. And we have been waiting……Will #longertweets…

By raising a total of approximately $570 million of committed capital for its fourth private equity fund, Capital Alliance Private Equity IV Limited, African Capital Alliance (ACA) has become the first West Africa-focused fund manager to raise over $1 billion in aggregate capital commitments, since its formation in 1997. Over its nineteen-year…

The Lagos State ministry of transportation has stated that taxi hailing company, Uber may be owing 600 million Naira ($1.9 million) in penalties for not having properly registered its business. This was declared by Anofiu Elegushi, a spokesman at the Lagos Ministry of Transportation in a discussion with CNNMoney last week.…

Tunde Kehinde and Ercin Eksin, cofounders of online Logistics company Africa Courier Express (ACE), are coming out with another startup, an online financial services company, named Lidya. Touted as a digital bank without branches, Lidya will offer small and medium-sized businesses unsecured loans of between $500 and $15,000. According to Tunde, while…

They say time is money so having the time to focus on things that are truly important is a welcome luxury in these times of economic hardships. The depreciation of the Naira has seen the cost of living rise due to inflation which has led to Nigerians discovering new ways…

The House on the Rock Church, Natives FilmWorks, Michelangelo Productions and the Bolanle Austen-Peters Production are collaborating to host The Nigerian Premiere of the Nigerian produced Film – 93 Days, on Tuesday, September 13, 2016, at The Rock Cathedral, 4th Roundabout, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. Starring Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover, Tim…

Terragon Group has been shortlisted in the EMEA 2016 MMA Smarties Award. It is the only Nigerian company for any of the available awards. Terragon is shortlisted in the Lead Generation category for the Samsung Mobile Nigeria Galaxy S7 #MoreThanAPhoneNG Campaign. Founded and led by Elo Umeh, Terragon Group is one of Africa’s Digital Media companies…

IBM West Africa has announced the change in leadership in Nigeria with the appointment of Dipo Faulkner as the new Country General Manager. He succeeds Taiwo Otiti who has moved on to take up the post of General Manager at the Central Securities Clearing Systems Plc also in Nigeria. Dipo…

Impact investing pioneer Root Capital announced at the African Green Revolution Forum a new partnership with The MasterCard Foundation that will help raise incomes for over 300,000 smallholder farmers in West Africa. The Foundation has committed $5.2 million to Root Capital over five years to support early-stage agricultural businesses that generate transformational…

Nintendo shares surged upon the announcement that Pokemon Go was coming to the Apple Watch and Super Mario to the iPhone. Just after the announcement at the apple event yesterday, the US-listed shares of Nintendo shares went up with Nintendo’s American depositary receipts closing up about 29% in strong volume. About…

At the Apple event today,  Niantic CEO John Hanke announced that Pokémon Go will soon be available on the Apple Watch. He mentioned that Pokémon Go has been downloaded over 500 million times since its launch this summer, and people have walked over 4.6 billion kilometres while playing the game. Dubbed Pokémon Go…