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Jose Mourinho’s team, Chelsea, may not be in the first half of the English Premier Football league table but he is still a man to be admired and respected. He has just made the Guinness Book of records. José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix also known as Jose Mourinho, was presented with unique framed certificates…

California-based early seed fund and accelerator program, 500 startups has raised $85 million in its third round of global funding. The firm had targeted $100 million for this fund. According to Dave McClure, on of its founders, “It wasn’t an easy road, U.S. institutions took exception with the firm’s “index fund” approach…

Classifieds Smartphone startup, letgo, has announced that it has secured $100 million in Series A funding from South African media giant, Naspers. letgo is a fun, easy to use, and highly visual mobile marketplace allowing users to post, buy, sell and communicate with each other instantly and for free. The app offers features…

Online retailer, Jumia Nigeria, has launched a first of its kind fashion e-magazine into the Nigerian market. It is the We Love Style Magazine. The We Love Style magazine is a 26 –pages all-inclusive fashion magazine showcasing a curated blend of the latest trends, news, beauty and health tips, sumptuous recipes,…

MainOne’s Data Center subsidiary, MDX-i, today announced the launch of its new cloud-based service offering with Microsoft. The solution which is built on Microsoft Azure’s enterprise grade infrastructure provides flexible, highly available and fully secure private computing environments to companies on a Pay-as-you-Go basis. By combining expertise in proven, yet…

Union Bank is now trending on Twitter since President Buhari stated that he has only one bank account and he banks only with Union Bank. The statement was made during the Press Release from the Presidency on the declaration of the President and Vice President’ assets. Here is the except from…

We told you some days ago that we suspected our own successful serial Tech-Entrepreneur Simeon Ononobi was working on something new and big…Innovation Village can authoritatively confirm to you that it’s true and real. Our sources say Simeon Ononobi, (Spouse) Co-Founder Madonna Ononobi and long time friend and also a…

Huawei has unveiled a new smartphone, the Huawei Mate S, at the IFA 2015 taking place in Berlin, Germany. “Our goal in designing the Huawei Mate S was to develop a smartphone that offers a personalized experience, rather than a commoditized one,” said Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG. “The…

Genii Games has released a trailer of its upcoming app – Sango and his wives. Sango and his wives is an interactive adaptation of the Sango deity story for kids. Sango, god of thunder, is the charming all-powerful king of the Oyo Empire. He has everything going for him –…

Innovation Village recently contacted Temie Giwa Tunbosun, Founder of One Percent Project based in Lagos, Nigeria. She talked about the One Percent Project and the LifeBank App. The One Percent Project believes in harnessing the collective power of young people to save lives by encouraging the culture of blood donation.…

According to Temie Giwa-Tubosun, Founder of One Percent Project, LifeBank App has helped the company save time by having access to potential blood donors. This was her response in an exclusive interview with Innovation Village on this health innovation recently. The One Percent Project is set up to attend to the…

The first trailer of the film “Concussion”, starring Will Smith as Dr Bennet Omalu, has been released by Sony Music Entertainment. Concussion is a David vs. Goliath story of Nigerian-born forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, who made the first discovery of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a football-related brain trauma,…

The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has announced Dr. Omobola Johnson as its new Honorary Chairperson. The immediate past Minister of Communications Technology of Nigeria will be taking over from Dr. Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication, who served as A4AI Honorary Chair from the…

Airtel Nigeria has just introduced a phone trade-in service where you can trade-in your old smartphone for a new one. Airtel SmartTRADE-IN is the first of its kind to be introduced by a mobile telecommunications company. This means that you can actually trade-in your Samsung Note 4 with the new…

Dubizzle has officially rebranded to OLX. This is part of Naspers’ strategy to have a unified name for all its Classifieds platform. Naspers changed the Kalahariads brand to OLX in 2011 and the Dealfish brand in 2012. Dubizzle has been part of the Naspers family of classifieds platforms since 2013 sharing the…

Access Bank Plc., one of the foremost financial institutions in Nigeria, has unveiled a new comprehensive banking solution, PrimusLite, for Small and Medium scale businesses. PrimusLite is strategically designed for SMEs and is a variant of Primus, the banking solution for large corporate bodies launched in 2013. PrimusLite is a…

Leading telecoms service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has unveiled MatchUp, a mobile portal that connects Nigerians including youths, the young at heart and professionals, who share similar social and professional interests and profiles. Designed as a simple matchmaking portal, MatchUp is an easy-to-use mobile service driven by flexible privacy options and…

It seems the Telco giant, Globacom, is beginning to wake up from its slumber and it is now bombarding its customers with many exciting programmes which would clearly increase the top of mind awareness among Nigerians. The Telco’s programmes include the following: 1. Dance with Peter: This competition is a dance…

Airtel Nigeria, has partnered with an application developer, Yuzah, to enhance diesel delivery in Nigeria. Yuzah was one of the Startups who participated in the Airtel Catapult-a-Startup Competition recently. The app won the N1 million prize money in the competition due to its simplicity and creativity. Yuzah (pronounced “user”) is a…

The consulting company Frost & Sullivan has awarded Germany’s largest biometrics manufacturer DERMALOG  and its customized solutions and products for Africa with the “2015 African Biometrics Company of the Year Award”. DERMALOG is particularly successful with a large bank installation in Nigeria. In South Africa’s economic hub, the German biometrics…