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HTC has been teasing us with bits and pieces of this particular phone and now it is finally out – the HTC 10. According to the company, the HTC 10 is a product of key customer feedback and their obsessive attention to detail. As per the look, the company says it did…

The MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity today awarded five companies more than US$10.6 million to bolster their innovative work to alleviate poverty by increasing access to financial services for poor people in rural Africa. The five companies introduced imaginative thinking in their approach to scaling up financial inclusion – the…

UNICEF Sweden has created a video of virtual child “Sofia” to highlight the plight of children of conflict. According to UNICEF, there are currently 250 million children around the world living in countries affected by conflict, and half of the 19.5 million refugees globally are children. So this campaign is create…

Skye Bank Plc and ChamsMobile, a licensed Mobile Money Operator inNigeria, have launched a VISA eGift payment card. The e-gift card is an online VISAcard, which ChamsMobile Kegow subscribers can send by mobile phone. The eGift card follows the successful introduction of Kegow’s virtual VISAcard in August 2015, the first of…

The #Imake4mycity prizes were awarded to the winners on Wednesday 6 April at 8 pm, in Paris, by several members of the Orange executive committee. The Solidarity FabLabs from Cairo, Tunis, Parthenay and Toulouse were rewarded for their work and will each receive 15,000 euros following this exciting competition for…

Marvel has released the first trailer of the upcoming film, Dr Strange. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Dr Stephen Vincent Strange. A former doctor, Strange serves as the Sorcerer Supreme, the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats. In addition to his magical abilities, he is trained in several martial…

Etisalat Nigeria has announced the appointment of three new directors to energise its commercial operations. They are Adeolu Dairo as director, consumer segment, Elvis Ogiemwanye as director, brand & experience and Eric Uwaoma as director, enterprise segment. These appointments were made from within which shows the company’s faith in the existing…

Vantage Capital, Africa’s largest mezzanine fund manager, announced today that it has provided $20 million (R294 million) of funding to Landmark Africa, one of Nigeria’s leading property developers. Landmark has developed or managed over 130,000 m2 of prime real estate across the continent. The real estate company is headquartered in Lagos,…

By 2020 there’ll be half a billion internet users in Africa, presenting an opportunity for African businesses and digital entrepreneurs. Youth unemployment across Africa is high (35% in South Africa, 17% in Kenya, 13% in Nigeria) – developing digital entrepreneurship and creating new job opportunities for young people is critical…

Interswitch, an Africa-focused digital payments and commerce company is excited to partner with SlimTrader, Sub-Saharan Africa’s leading turn-key ecommerce solution provider for businesses, on the deployment of a new Payment Monitoring Portal on the ‘MoBiashara for Hotels’ (MFH) platform. With this partnership, SlimTrader will be better positioned to facilitate seamless…

Blackberry has stated that it has no plans to develop handsets for its own operating system, BB10. However, it will continue to issue updates for existing devices. The company Operating System has not been able to compete against Android and iOS hence it seems it has decided to opt for the Android…

In furtherance to its commitment towards the establishment of digital learning, through the use of technology within the Nigerian educational system, Samsung Electronics West Africa has partnered with Skool Media and the Federal Ministry of Education to digitalize classrooms on the platform of mobile learning across unity schools in Nigeria,…

We will be having our first Chat series and our guest is Benjamin Benaïm. He is a Founding partner of Seedstars Academy. Ben will be talking about “How Seedstars Academy hopes to contribute to entrepreneurship in Nigeria”. He will also talk about the upcoming opening of Seedstars Academy in Lagos. Seedstars Academy…

17 year old Nigerian, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna from Elmont High school, New York, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools…. and MIT. She actually applied to twelve schools and was accepted in all. This is the second time in a row that a Nigerian is achieving this feat. Last year,…

Facebook Messenger has started the rollout a set of new tools designed to make chatting easier for individuals and businesses. They are Messenger codes, Messenger links and Messenger Usernames. Messenger Codes let you just pull out your phone and scan someone else’s code — it’s the new circular pattern surrounding…

Recently at an exclusive launch event at London’s Battersea Evolution, Huawei Consumer Business Group unveiled the much anticipated Huawei P9 and P9 Plus. The Huawei P9 is the first smartphone co-engineered with the global iconic brand, Leica Camera AG. The 5.2 inch smartphone comes with two cameras –  a traditional 12-megapixel…

Safeboda, a startup based in Uganda, has raised $227,000 from London-based Global Innovation Fund to help it through its pilot phase. It operates an Uber-style app for motorcycle taxis with added safety features. Banking on the fact that motorcycles are popular in most African cities, Safeboda’s community of professional, trained motorcycle taxis drivers (boda-boda),…

Lagos is set to be treated to gastronomic delights as foremost financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, announces the first GTBank Food & Drink Weekend. Scheduled for the 1st and 2nd of May, 2016, the 2-day event is designed to showcase Nigeria’s emerging food industry as well as offer a…

Olam International, a leading agri-business operating across the value chain in 70 countries, today announced that it is investing US$150.0 million (approximately 30.0 billion Naira) to set up two state-of-the-art animal feed mills, poultry breeding farms and a hatchery to produce day-old-chicks in Nigeria. At a co-hosted ground breaking ceremony…

ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company, announced today jointly with its global partners, Vodafone Foundation, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, ELMA Philanthropies and the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the launch of the Mobilising HIV Identification and Treatment (MHIT) programme in Lesotho.…