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Startup Grind will be featuring  Bola Akindele, Founder of Courteville Business Solutions in its April Fireside Chat. BOLA AKINDELE is the Founder and Group Managing Director of Courteville Business Solutions, a business process outsourcing and information technology solutions company. He has over three decades of professional experience spanning audit, banking, business development,…

To commemorate the upcoming Earth Day, Uber Nigeria is teaming up with WeCyclers to collect recyclable waste on Thursday April 21st to keep Lagos cleaner! Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first…

The d6 School Communicator is an online platform that South African schools use to push messages out to parents over email, text message or social media – even desktop notifications. In recognition of the importance of this activity, MTN has come out to ease the schools cost of sending these messages;…

Pastor Poju Oyemade, Senior Pastor of Covenant Christian Centre has revealed the names of the speakers at the upcoming edition of The Platform Abuja. The speakers are as follows: Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria – Keynote Address Oby Ezekwesili, former Vice President at the World Bank…

The UK-based global tech online businesses, Potential Group, has acquired Starta, the Pan-African startup support platform currently working out of Nigeria. Although full details of the acquisition cannot be revealed at the moment, Starta says becoming part of the Potential Group will provide help to allow Starta turbocharge its effort across…

Jungle Book is in the cinemas today. “The Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of Idris Elba),…

Google is updating Google Maps with new traffic alerts in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Google hopes that this new feature will help avoid traffic jams. This is the way it works. When you input your destination on your Google Maps, you’ll get a spoken alert for upcoming traffic conditions that…

God is Good Motors (GIGM), a national leader in the road transport industry, in its continuous bid to ensure hassle-free travelling experiences for our esteemed client has launched a new GIGM Mobile App and a new website. The launch took place today, Friday, April 15th, 2016 between 12 noon and 2pm at the…

Google wants to help people to achieve goals. That is why the company has developed Goals in Google Calendar. It attests to the fact that achieving goals can be really hard; whether it’s reading more books, learning a new language or working out regularly. Hence the company is introducing Goals in…

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…