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FarmConnecta, a Botswana-based start-up that has developed an information sharing and billing system designed for the agricultural community, has won the first prize, valued at 10,000 euros, in the 2015 Orange AMEA Developers Challenge. Orange presented the prize to FarmConnecta during the Cairo ICT event yesterday. The 2015 Orange AMEA Developers Challenge was launched…

Tigo Tanzania in partnership with a local NGO, Reach For Change, have once again announced two winners of the Tigo Digital Changemakers competition. The competition is a social entrepreneurship programme aimed at identifying and empowering young Tanzanians with innovative digital solutions that can help to solve some of the country’s most…

African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has announced the appointment of Dr. Nkosana Moyo as an Envoy representing Anglophone Africa at the African Law Library (ALL) which is one of AIF’s core programmes. It is as an African Online Library on Law and Governance, through engaging a team of Envoys at Pan-…

In 2016, five African countries will be hosting She Leads Africa’s She Hive professional bootcamp and co-working space for ambitious young women which was introduced earlier this year in Lagos. The aim of the bootcamps is to help young women develop their career and business skills, join a community of…

You can now watch TV shows and movies while offline with the new feature added to the ShowMax Android app. This development is of immediate benefit to commuters and people looking for entertainment while travelling, but it also has the potential to have a much wider impact. Those without access to…

Lawmakers in Nigeria especially members of the House of Representatives committee on Communications have expressed their displeasure over the unilateral decision of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to slam fine on MTN; they also expressed concerns over the controversial way the commission reduced the fine slammed on the network. The…

Mobile Operators Telefonica and MTN have announced that they will be working together in a number of areas, including growth around M2M and enterprise. This partnership comes under the Telefonica Partners Program initiative which was launched in 2011 In a statement released recently, the companies said they will work together to capture synergies…

Vodafone has now introduced its mobile money service, M-Pesa into the Ghanaian market. This will be the 11th Vodafone market across Africa, Asia and Europe to benefit from the mobile money transfer service. This comes after Vodafone Albania launched M-Pesa in May 2015, the second Vodafone market in Europe to offer the…

MultiChoice is now giving DStv Premium subscribers free access to Naspers’ video-on-demand service, ShowMax. To help with promotional sampling of Naspers’ service that was launched in August, MultiChoice is giving DStv subscribers 30 days of full free access to ShowMax during the holiday and Christmas season when holiday-goers will presumably…

Are you currently a student actively running a business? Then this is for you. You can win the first prize of US$20,000 in cash and a total value of over $40,000, which includes a travel/lodging expense paid trip to compete in GSEA Finals in Bangkok, Thailand. If you take second…

Nky Iweka is a British Nigerian trying to introduce Nigerian cuisine to the International world. She is the owner of Tupelo and Green based in the United Kingdom A Computer Scientist by training, she worked as a management consultant (PwC Consulting) for many years before quitting to enter into the…

Unilever has been chosen at the No. 1 Employer in Africa for two years in a row. The award was announced recently by the by the International Top Employers Institute. This award recognises the firm’s focus on developing local talent to meet its sustainable growth ambition in Africa. “Building African talent and leaders…

This is certainly the season to be jolly and this time, Santa Claus is not coming on a Sleigh. He is using Uber. Slum2School is teaming up with Uber Lagos in its ‘Christmas in a Box‘ campaign to provide beautifully wrapped Christmas presents to 10,000 disadvantaged and vulnerable children in Nigeria. Under the…

Last night Pizza Hut and Pepsi Zambia launched the Next Generation: #MakeYourMoment campaign at the University of Zambia. The Campaign is designed to create a platform to offer young entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their story and inspire the next generation. These events will take place at a number of…

Bill Gates is a man that has affected this world positively in very many ways. One sometimes ponders on the reason for his being, his thought process and how he sees the world. I guess one of the ways you can understand him is to think like him, read like…

Rack Centre, the Nigeria’s Premium Data Centre provider has recently won the 2015 Data Centre Dynamics Award for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in the Data Centre Impact Award Category area.  The Data Centre Dynamics award is well respected in the data centre industry and are considered by…

African Sports Entertainment in partnership with Wakanow Sports is set to launch the African Basketball League ABL on Wednesday December 16th at the Boat Club in Ikoyi, Lagos. The highly anticipated corporate launch will introduce the Lagos Islanders, Stallions and Lagos City Chiefs as the Nigerian Clubs in the league. Other…

Guaranty Trust Bank plc has reaffirmed its position as a leading provider of e-payment solutions with the introduction of a new service that allows customers receive Western Union funds directly into their GTBank account via any of the Bank’s Automated Teller Machines (“ATMs”) in Nigeria. The service is also available…

Early this week, Shell partnered with leading songwriter Akon to unveil Africa’s first human and solar powered football pitch in Lagos. This event took place at the Federal College of Education, Akoka, Lagos. This new pitch is the latest initiative from Shell’s #makethefuture programme, which puts bright energy ideas into action to…

If the report from TechCabal is true, the face of Social Innovation in Nigeria will experience a major uplift on the 15th of December 2015. This is the first time such an amount will be dedicated to Social innovation in Nigeria This will be the announcement of the launch of a…