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The UEFA Champions League final and the Europa League finals will be streamed live on YouTube. BT Sport announced last week that it had struck a deal to stream the finals of the Europa League competition on the 18th of May and the UEFA Champions league on the 28th of may…

Leading hospitality company Fahrenheit Hospitality Limited (FHL) – the parent company for the prestigious Maison Fahrenheit Hotel and Fahrenheit Loft – has revealed that it is positioning its hotels to provide even more efficient services and a wider range of accessibility options to its clients, with its recent adoption of SlimTrader’s…

To help reduce challenges with cattle grazing and the judicious use of land across Nigeria, MTN Nigeria has provided a Livestock Tracking Solution (LTS) to assist cattle herdsmen monitor and track their livestock wherever they are. This device will also provide affordable electricity to rural community dwellers. The MTN Mobile…

Orange Business Services, the B2B division of the Orange Group, is reaffirming its commitment to support enterprises in Africa with the expansion of its Lagos, Nigeria presence. It has established a new sales office in addition to the existing customer support activities in the country. The objective is to support…

Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com, has again won two prestigious Awards from Great Place to Work. The announcement was made at the Great Place to Work Awards ceremony which took place in Lagos where Konga won the following grand awards: Best Place To Work For Millennials Overall 7th Best Company to Work…

Fresh from launching an app “Gboard” for iPhone last week, Google has now introduced a new app called Spaces. This app lets people get people together instantly to share around any topic. With Spaces, it’s simple to find and share articles, videos and images without leaving the app, since Google…

Gbenro Dara, former Co-founder and chief operations officer of online auto insurance marketplace MyAutoGenius.com, has been named the Managing Director of  Saltside Technologies’ Efritin.com He takes over from pioneer MD, Zakaria Hersi who needs to attend to urgent personal matters. Under Zakaria, Efritin, which recently celebrated its one-year anniversary, secured over 30,000 registered users…

Yasmin Belo-Osagie is one of the co-founders of She Leads Africa and she has been nominated as one of Fast Company’s most creative people in business for 2016. She joins 99 other people on this list. Fast Company chose Yasmin for her role in developing female entrepreneurs across Africa. She Leads…

Queen of Katwe is the colourful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with…

Imagine a world without language barriers. Introducing the Pilot.. At the convergence of wearable technology + machine translation, the Pilot is the world’s first smart earpiece which translates between users speaking different languages. It is being introduced by the team from Waverly Labs. The Pilot is just an earpiece and…

May 15 is the International Day of Families, a day that draws attention to issues that families face and offers opportunities to examine the social and economic factors that affect families’ well being. Reach for Change Africa is marking this occasion, along with families all across the continent, by celebrating…

Samsung Electronics has announced that the Charm by by Samsung will be select markets very soon. The stylish lifestyle ban was initially launched in Korea, Italy, France and Russia. The band features a simple yet eye-catching square charm that keeps track of the number of steps you’ve taken in a day…

Two teams from Lagos have today been selected to pilot a unique digital idea they have developed to help the BBC reach young African audiences. The teams – Codulab, a small company based in Lagos, and a collaborative team of Nigerian innovators, Team Timerail – have been chosen for the…

If you are in Nigeria and you do not know about Tuta Absoluta, then you are not a proper Nigerian. How can you know about the pest that has led to increase of the price of tomatoes in Nigeria? It is so powerful that it has caused the newly established Dangote…

Singularity Investments has announced an undisclosed investment in Sliide Airtime. Sliide Airtime is a privately-held technology company with offices in Lagos and London. Its content delivery platform is changing the way people interact with their phones by subsidising their airtime. The Sliide Airtime service gives consumers the ability to earn free…

MTN Business has launched a new SME-tailored solution called MTN SME Value Pack. This is a complete business-enabling solution that comes with an MTN Business-branded Internet router, an MTN Business-branded desk phone, a professional email account, data bundle, voice call minutes and bulk SMS – all in one package. Amina…

South Africa-based internet and entertainment group, Naspers has announced its entrance into the Education Technology (EdTech) market with its $15 million investment in Brainly. Naspers did this Series B investment through its recently opened division in USA, Naspers Ventures. Launched in Poland in 2009, originally under the name Zadane.pl, Brainly has…

Kirusa, a global leader in providing telecom and social media solutions, today announced the appointment of Obafemi Banigbe to its advisory board. Femi is currently the Managing Partner at Silver Rock Technology Services, a startup business and technology consulting firm focusing on Information and Communication technology industries. Prior to co-founding…

SAP, through its Africa Code Week in 2016, intends to train more than 150,000 youths in 30 African countries to foster digital literacy and equip the continent’s rising generation with job-relevant digital skills. The Africa Code Week 2016 will run from October 15 – 23, 2016, with thousands of free…

The much celebrated “Uber for Private Jets”, BlackJet has ceased operations. Launched in 2012, Blackjet promised to plug the gap that was absent in the on-demand ecosystem. It even had the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Jay Z’s Roc Nation, Marc Benioff, Tim Ferriss and even Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, backing it. BlackJet…