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MasterCard has become the first International Payments Network to enter into Somalia. This announcement was made at the World Economic forum today when the company announced its partnership with Premier Bank. With this partnership, Premier Bank will now issue and accept the first MasterCard-branded payment cards in Somalia. Somalia hasn’t…

Nigeria’s leading payment and transaction processing company, Interswitch, is considering Initial Public Offerings in Lagos and London in 2016. According to Bloomberg, this IPO will be to expand its operations in Africa. Interswitch currently operates in five African countries – Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Gambia. With the funds from…

Today, Google unveiled Android Pay, which will enable MasterCard credit, debit, prepaid and small business cardholders to use their Android phones for everyday purchases in-store and within Android apps. This news provides MasterCard cardholders with even more options for paying on the go using their choice of mobile device. The…

What do you get when you cross Iron Man with a  Samsung S6 Edge? – A limited edition smartphone of awesomeness and beauty. Inspired by the current Avengers movie – Age of the Ultron, this red and gold phone is the ultimate gadget that any Tony Stark and Iron Man fan…

The photo of the day is about three former Nigerian Heads of State poring over an iPad. From left to right, we have Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar, Ernest Shonekan and Olusegun Obasanjo. This picture was taken on Democracy Day at the Inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on the 29th of May 2015. (Not…

Outgoing Nigerian Agriculture Minister, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina has been elected as the new President of the African Development Bank. Dr Adesina beat seven other contestants to emerge as the organisation’s eighth leader since its foundation in 1964. He is taking over from the current president, Donald Kaberuka of Rwanda on…

Africa’s largest Online Hotel Booking Website Jovago.com has issued an invitation to the President of the United States of America to stay at the best hotel in Kenya. This invitation was sent as a way of fostering Kenya-US relations as well as to boost entrepreneurship as the President is scheduled to…

Nigeria celebrates Democracy day today, May 29. Democracy Day, a public holiday in Nigeria, is held annually on May 29. This public holiday commemorates the restoration of democracy in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, when the newly elected Olusegun Obasanjo took office as the President of Nigeria, ending the multiple decades of…

It is May 27 and this day is set aside to recognize and celebrate Children in Nigeria. It is a public holiday for children in Primary and Secondary schools. Google is also celebrating this day with a doodle which shows the Google letters in a playground. Happy Children’s Day to…

Hellofood Ghana, the leading online food ordering and delivery platform in Ghana has been awarded the Best Mobile App Company of the Year during the 5th edition of the Ghana Telecom Awards. This prestigious award which is held for ICT players has become the benchmark for outstanding performances throughout the…

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today announced the launch of a $110 million risk-sharing facility that will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises in fragile and conflict-affected states in…

Recently Tony O. Elumelu addressed the Georgetown University Class of 2015 on May 12, in a speech titled “Entrepreneur-Led Development: A New Model for Africa”.  This was the second event in his recent trip to the US where he visited the White House as President Obama brought together emerging entrepreneurs from…

In commemoration of Children’s Day, coming up celebrated yearly on May 27th, leading online shopping community, Kaymu.com.ng has partnered with Kinabuti Fashion Initiative (KFI) for a Children’s Day Skill Entrepreneurship Workshop to train children from the Change A Life (CAL) Foundation on silk screen printing. The workshop slated for Tuesday May 26th is a joint initiative by…

Etisalat Nigeria is the latest Telco to announce the adverse impact of the ongoing fuel scarcity in the country. The UAE-based mobile provider posted this message to its subscribers on its twitter page this morning. https://twitter.com/etisalat_9ja/status/602738978417147904 MTN and Airtel already issued similar statements last weekend informing their subscribers.

Leading digital money transfer provider, SimbaPay, has announced the launch of its money transfer service to Nigeria. Using the SimbaPay app or website, Nigerians living in the UK can send money to any bank account or mobile phone in Nigeria instantly. SimbaPay charges zero fees for money transfers to Nigeria. According to…

Airtel Nigeria has issued a statement on the prevailing fuel and diesel scarcity in the nation. It stated that the current lingering fuel scarcity was negatively impacting on its service. Here is the official statement posted on its Facebook page. STATEMENT BY AIRTEL NIGERIA ON THE CURRENT DIESEL & FUEL…

Nigeria’s online e-commerce site, Konga.com, will be shutting down its desktop site for 5 days…..for a mobile app-only mega sale. Interesting concept.? What this means is that this sale will only be accessible to those customers with smartphones and that have downloaded the mobile app. Considering that most Nigerians still…

Out of all the phones in Africa, Tecno Phones have always held a special place in the continent. With quality phones at prices that the everyday man can afford, Tecno have really made a name for themselves in the market. But some would argue that Tecno has, well, too many…

Africa’s largest Online Hotel Booking Portal, Jovago, announced today the opening of an office in Addis Ababa this May. The office will be the company’s first in Ethiopia, in a move aimed at bringing service development and business management closer to the Ethiopian market. Drawing its human resource from the…

MTN Foundation, the corporate social investment vehicle of leading ICT company in Nigeria, MTN, has joined Oracle, a company that engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in the data center, to give further ICT training to select MTNF scholars. The collaboration will see two projects…