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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…

Facebook highlighted its commitment to Nigerian content partners and developers with a full calendar of workshops, masterclasses and events at Social Media Week in Lagos, held from 22 to 26 February. The weeklong conference was an ideal opportunity for Facebook to showcase its commitment to local partners as well as share…

Orange, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators today announces the launch of the Orange brand in Egypt. As of today, the Orange brand replaces the Mobinil brand. Egypt is the latest subsidiary of the Orange Group to adopt the Orange brand and is the Group’s largest operation in terms of…

In 2015, countries concluded a negotiating process that has spanned more than two years and featured the unprecedented participation of civil society. Governments agreed on the need for comprehensive financing for development, adopted a new sustainable development agenda and charted a universal and legally binding global agreement on climate change.…

Smile , which owns and operates 4G LTE mobile broadband networks in the 800MHz band in Nigeria, and in the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands in Tanzania and Uganda, announced today that in all its operating markets customers would enjoy the benefits of two first-to-market services, namely SmileVoice and SmileUnlimited. This…

In recent times, Africa has been under the watch of the world, with world economies discovering the potential that lies within Africa which can be drawn from the fact that 6 out of 10 fastest growing economies in the are in Africa. This documentary highlights the opportunities that exist on…

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), and The MasterCard Foundation today announced a US$10.35 million (approximately 220 million Ethiopian birr) commitment towards creating employment opportunities for young people through beekeeping and silkworm farming. The five-year project is expected to directly benefit 12,500 unemployed and out-of-school youth, and…

Interswitch has announced that it has been given an approval-in-principle by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to roll out its financial Agency Network which will trade as Quickteller Paypoint. Interswitch will do this through its subsidiary, Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS). It also announced that it has a mandate to grow…

The Board of United Bank for Africa has appointed Kennedy Uzoka as the new Group Managing Director. He will be taking over from Phillips Oduoza, who retires on July 31, 2016, after two terms of leading the UBA Group. The appointment will take effect from August 1st, 2016 and is subject…

Africa Internet Group (“ AIG”), the parent of Jumia, the leading ecommerce platform in Africa, has secured € 225 million in funding from new and existing investors. With this investment and the previously announced funding commitment of € 75 million from AXA, this amounts to a valuation of  € 1.005bn post…

Hotels across Nigeria are set to enjoy a reprieve from some of the major accounting and reconciliation challenges they face with the roll out of a new innovative ‘Personal Computer-Point of Sale’ (PC-POS) feature on SlimTrader’s ‘MoBiashara for Hotels’ (MFH) platform. Many hotels across Nigeria are faced with the challenge…