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Last week Thursday, Airtel Nigeria unveiled a host of celebrities as their brand ambassadors. They include TuFace Idibia, Akpororo, Patoranking, Phyno and Ik Osakioduwa. Now the foremost telecoms company has now made it easy to have access to the celebrities’ ring back tones on one code. Foir instance, you can…

Visa , a global payments technology company, recently announced the launch of NotATourist, an innovative, full-fledged regional campaign aimed at driving international tourism during holidays, and making the summer holidays of cardholders rewarding. Running in key Middle East and African markets including, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and…

Seize the opportunity! Samsung Nigeria is giving 15% 35% off to all Truppr app users who purchase the Samsung gear fit. The Samsung Gear Fit wearable is the best fitness companion. It records your heart rate, acts as a pedometer and is water resistant. But there’s more. You can read your…

Nigerians on Twitter have not been kind to the President for the mistake he made about Germany at a recent press briefing about G7 summit. President Muhammadu Buhari unintentionally referred to Germany as “West Germany” and talked about meeting with German president “Michelle” at the G7 summit. Indeed he was referring to German…

Five days to go!! Have you been nominated to win a Galaxy S6 edge or Galaxy S6 duos? The Samsung Galaxy S6 edge is the world’s first dual-curved edge Smartphone. It has an exquisite glass and metal finish giving it a refined look and feel. The S6 duos is the dual SIM version…

The TrupprRUN is a monthly 5k Run organized by Truppr and taking place in 11 cities around Nigeria. Truppr is a social app that connects YOU to people and fitness events around you so that regular exercise becomes a lifestyle. Why should you care? Well, this particular brand of “social fitness”…

Leading Telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has appointed music legend, TuFace Idibia; rap artiste Phyno; reggae dancehall singer, Patoranking; one of Nigeria’s fastest rising comedian, Akpororo and renowned On-Air-Personality, IK Osakioduwa as brand ambassadors. The brand ambassadors were unveiled to the public at a star-studded event themed, ‘The Icon”which held…

Interswitch Transnational, Africa’s leading integrated payments and transaction switching company has entered into a strategic partnership with fuelvoucher.com.ng on the expansion of fuel voucher-redeeming channels nationwide. As a business focused on providing products and services that are highly tailored to the African market, Interwitch has launched this initiative in line…

Dick Costolo has stepped down as the CEO of Twitter. The company has announced that Co-founder, Chairman and Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, will take over as the interim CEO while a permanent CEO is being sought. Dick effective date is July 1 but he will still be on the Board…

Funds managed by Blackstone and Black Rhino today announced that His Highness Emir Muhammad Sanusi II will join Black Rhino’s Board of Directors as Chairman. Black Rhino was formed in January 2012 to develop and to invest in transformational infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa’s power generation and fuel transportation sectors. “One…

According to Forbes latest list of highest paid athletes, Floyd Mayweather is the numero uno. This is the third time in four years that the 38 year old boxer a.k.a “Money” is taking the title. His $300 million earnings in the last 12 months is primarily made up of his…

Popular music streaming site has now reached more than 20 million subscribers and more than 75 million active users. At the end of May 2014, the Daniel Ek-led company had 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users. According to Spotify, this is good for the ecosystem – for…

Popular music streaming service, Spotify, is receiving  $115 million from Sweden’s TeliaSonera for 1.4% stake. With this investment as part of its latest funding round where  Spotify raised more than $500million, the value of the company is now about $8.53bn. This investment is part of TeliaSonera bid to join forces…

In line with its commitment to provide exceptional mobile Internet experience for Nigerians, leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has launched ultra-high speed Wi-Fi service to enhance customer data experience in Lagos. With this development, residents and visitors to Lagos will have access to super-fast internet in public places and…

Nailab has announced that one of its season 1 startups, Wezatele, has been acquired by AFB, a financial services company that specializes in providing credit products to consumers in Africa. The acquisition, which is said to be estimated to be over $1million (Ksh 100million) is one of the largest acquisitions of a…

Paymill, the online payment solution and one of the fastest growing FinTech-Startups in Europe, is teaming up with PayPal. With this partnership Paymill is completing the range of payment methods offered by its online payment solution, which now covers nearly 100% of payments in most European countries. This allows online…

The telcos are vigorously trying to attract the youths with products and services targetted to this market. Airtel has the Airtel Trybe; Glo has #Generation G while Etisalat has Easy Cliq. If you are to choose any of the products based on the videos produced to promote them, which one…

As part of its Cliqlite product offering, Etisalat Nigeria will be premiering a new TV reality program “Kids Say the Darndest Things”. “Kids Say the Darndest Things” is a successful American reality based television show originally hosted by Bill Cosby which features children as the main stars of the show.…

parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading pan-African bank with operations in 36 countries across the continent, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ade Ayeyemi as its new Group Chief Executive Officer. His appointment is effective from 1 September 2015. Mr Ayeyemi, 52, will replace Albert Essien, who…

Innovation Africa 2015, Africa’s leading summit for education and innovation returns for its fifth year in 2015 and will take place in Kampala, under the patronage of the Government of Uganda, hosted by Hon Jessica Alupo, Minister of Education & Sports. Innovation Africa is recognised as the leading high-level forum for education,…