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Uche Pedro of BellaNaija has won the Best African Blogger at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2016. She beat Sylvia Kamau (“Style by Sylvia” – Kenya), Aisha Baker (“Baked the Blog” – South Africa)and Theodora Lee (“Theodora Lee” – South Africa) to take home the coveted trophy. The Awards took place last night in…

A new show will debut on the 20th of March 2016 and it is called “Bukas and Joints”. A buka or joint, Nigerian parlance, is a local “street” eatery. “Bukas and Joints”, to be hosted by Olisa Adibua, is from Biola Alabi Media Productions (BAM Productions) owned and founded by Biola Alabi,…

Meet the top five newcomers on this year’s Forbes Billionaire list. This year 198 people made it to this list, and they ranged from 19-year-old Norwegian heiress Alexandra Andresen to 97-year-old hotelier C.F. Chan from Hong Kong. They hailed from Asia, Europe and North America. Many made their fortunes in tech…

On March 24th2016, the international scientific community will gather for the 18th edition of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards, to celebrate 5 exceptional women scientists and their groundbreaking work, as well as 15 promising young researchers. In the face of unprecedented global challenges, from climate change to healthcare to…

Tencent’s WeChat has announced that it is ready to launch Enterprise WeChat to cater for enterprise clients. This separate app, named Qiye Weixin or Enterprise WeChat in English, is under beta testing and is expected to be rolled out in the next couple of months. In a statement from the China-based…

The MakerSpace is hosting a Startup Weekend for women which is valued at R4000; this includes facilitators, venue, internet connection, food and drinks for the weekend. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams…

AgriHack West Africa also known as The Youth-Enabled Fish Farming ‪#‎AgriHack‬ (YEFFA) is currently receiving applications from ICT innovators, developers, fish farmers and fish farming enthusiasts who are based in Nigeria, Benin and Togo.  These applicants would be interested in working towards solving any of the persistent problems of the fish value chain in these countries. YEFFA…

Apple has sent out press invites for what is expected to be the unveiling of its new iPhone, iPad models and possibly Apple watches. As usual, the cupertino based company is keeping a tight lip on the activities for the day. All that is known is that it will take…

Uber has announced that Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda are next on its African expansion plans. This announcement was made by Uber Sub-Saharan Africa General Manager, Alon Lits in a recent intereview with Reuters.  It intends to set up East and West Africa “hubs” in Nairobi and Lagos to act as launchpads for…

MTN Group is reportedly proposing a full and final settlement of $1.5bn for the $3.9bn fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission for missing a deadline to disconnect unregistered subscribers. The South African based telecoms giant says it made the written offer, comprised of cash installments, bond purchases and…

A new Captain America: Civil War trailer is out and it shows the new Spiderman played by Tom Holland. What is Spider Man doing with Captain America’s shield? Whose side is he on? Captain America or Iron Man? It also shows  the Black Panther. Interesting huh! What do you think?…

Andela, a company which provides companies with access to the top 1% of tech talent across the African continent, has announced its partnership with Big Data University. Big Data University is an IBM initiative that seeks to train 1 million data scientists around the world in the next 10 years. Launched in 2015,…

Africa’s No. 1 hotel booking website, Jovago.com, has launched Jovago Extranet App, a mobile application that aims at giving more flexibility and independence to hotel managers. “Jovago wants to give the best international standards of the hotel industry and the latest technologies to all our Hotel partners, we want to…

Country Manager for Google Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, shares a speech she recently gave to the Nigerian Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS) of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. She is an alumnus of NACOSS, OAU. The speech is on 5 Tips For Personal Effectiveness. Watch and learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcVyQ5p-uo

Airtel Nigeria is really going after MTN subscribers by openly wooing them. It first published an advert showing a couple of yellow suitcases with a red hat. Now it has released a new video which is another initiative aimed at luring MTN subscribers to the Airtel Network and getting 5…

Tecno Nobile felt it would be more exciting and beneficial to create a platform where people of like minds can discuss freely; and so they created TECNO SPOT. TECNO SPOT is a forum that is aimed at providing basic technical support for TECNO users in Africa such as the HOW TOs,…

These are actually oil paintings not photographs even though it may be hard to believe. They are so life-like that Oresegun’s Olumide’s hyper-realistic photos have gone viral. Even CNN has done a feature on him and his works. Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph.…

KeRanger is the first of its kind; i.e. the first ransomware to successfully infect Apple systems. A ransomware is a software that denies a user access to files unless a ransom is paid. It targets files that users would most likely find important: photos, videos, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. In this…

The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu has announced that the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) is set to introduce a Post Bank to bring banking services to rural dwellers. While addressing journalists recently, he said that the ministry would soon arrange with all foreign postal services to make the Express Mail Service (EMS)…

Apple has just updated its list of vintage and obsolete products and the 2010 Macbook Pro is on the list. It specifically mentions the MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) The list has nothing to do with operating system upgrades.  It just means that Apple would…