Author: Staff Writer

Shopping in Nigeria has gotten a whole lot easier with the rise of e-commerce platforms. Browse websites to find everything from fashion to electronics and in as little as 48 hours you can have that product in your hands. That is the world of online shopping as we see it today. The…

Easy Taxi, Nigeria’s foremost taxi requesting service which officially extended its services to users in Abuja a few months ago, has started the New Year on a good note. On its mission to revolutionize Nigeria’s transportation system, Easy Taxi took its unique taxi experience to the Designers Market Place “Back…

Tencent’s WeChat is spreading throughout Africa through its association with South Africa’s media company, Naspers using it as a springboard for competing with Facebook’s WhatsApp. Starting from South Africa, It is now solidifying its base in West Africa.  (Naspers acquired a 46.5% interest in Tencent Holdings Limited in 2001.) It has…

Taking selfie to another level, AS Roma’s superstar Francesco Totti celebrated a goal by taking a selfie on the pitch. The 38 year old captain scored an equalizer as Roma drew 2-2 with Laxio in a city derby that held on Sunday. With his 11th career goal in the derby,…

It has been announced that the Social Media Africa Summit and Awards will now take place on Saturday, January 24, 2015. The event had to be rescheduled from December 2014 due to unforeseen circumstances. The Social Media Awards Africa (SMAA) was created to recognise and celebrate excellence and creativity in…

If you are a Non-Profit in South Africa or Egypt, you should know that you can promote your mission or initiative on Google search result pages with Google Ad Grants. Google Ad grants are only available in 2 African countries – Egypt and South  Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit…

NATCOM Consortium, preferred bidder for the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited,(NITEL) and its mobile subsidiary, the Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited, has paid 30% of the $252.52m bid. This amounts to  $75.76m (N13.63bn). In a statement made by the Head of Public Communications, Bureau of Public Enterprises,(BPE) Mr. Chigbo Anichebe, on Thursday, this payment…

Naspers’ associate, Tencent and JD.com has agreed to invest about $1.3billion in Chinese auto information website operator, Bitauto Holdings Ltd.; so says Bitauto. Bitauto also revealed that  China’s No. 2 e-commerce company, JD.com and Tencent, best known for its communications app WeChat, will also invest a total of $250 million in…

Calabar, known as one of the attractive tourism destinations in Nigeria, has added another feather to its cap – Nigeria’s most comprehensively wired city. This is coming at the heels of the completion of installation of its metropolitan dark fibre optic network infrastructure. ‎This feat was accomplished via a partnership…

Simply put, the phone has a confident feel when you hold it, although it’s a simple smartphone that only satisfies your basic needs. Even though I was asked not to, I couldn’t resist the temptation of comparing the device with my Samsung Galaxy K Zoom that costs about 5 times…

Africa.com is looking forward to welcoming a team of students from Harvard Business School this week. The team of six students will be in Johannesburg for a week as part of a required first-year course at Harvard Business School called FIELD, which stands for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development.…

In November 2014 OLX, Nigeria’s number 1 online free classified ads site, embarked on the OLX Gives Back Campaign where Mannie of Cool FM and Yaw of Wazobia FM were invited to sell their item(s) on the OLX site. After the items were sold, the proceeds from the sales were…

At the TEDxIfe event in Nigeria, polish entrepreneur and managing director of Jovago.com -Africa’s largest online hotel booking platform- Marek Zmyslowski talks about his unusual entrepreneurial journey in Lagos and what it is like to build a start-up in Nigeria. Marek Zmyslowski, the managing director of Jovago – Africa’s largest online…

Airtel Africa has announced the appointment of Daddy Mukadi Bujitu as the as Chief Regulatory Officer for Airtel Africa. Daddy Mukadi Bujitu, the new Chief Regulatory Officer, joins Airtel Africa from the Vodacom Group where he was the Executive Head, International Regulatory and the Executive, International Commercial Legal. Before joining…

The first episode of Airtel Touching Lives TV series was aired on Sunday 4th January. Launched in July 2014, Airtel Touching Lives is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project co-ordinated by Airtel Nigeria  to enrich Nigerians and provide succour to the under-privileged members of the society. With OAP Wana Wana…

Sony has unveiled some new products at the current CES 2015 currently taking place in Las Vegas, USA. Here are some of the products: 1. Sony HandyCam FDR-AX33 The new Sony Handycam FDR-AX33 is the most compact 4K Handycam camcorder to date. It features impressive Balanced Optical SteadyShow (B.O.SS) image stabilization which ensures…

The annual Consumer Electronics Awards is scheduled to hold January 6-9, in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the organisation behind the CES, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA),  the 2015 International CES will feature the largest ever showcase of products, services and technologies that make up the “Internet of Things” (IoT), with…

Bharti Airtel has announced the appointment of Farhad Khan as the new Chief Commercial Officer of Airtel Africa. Farhad Khan will be taking over from Andre Beyers, the former Chief Marketing Officer. Farhad’s most recent role was at MTN South Africa, where he held the position of Chief Sales &…

MTN South Africa has just launched a subscription based Video on Demand service named MTN FrontRow. MTN FrontRow is a premium entertainment network where you have access to movies and TV series, even if you are not an MTN subscriber. From only R179 a month, you can sign up to…

Nigerian Ecommerce Company, Konga.com, disclosed that it closed the 2014 year with remarkable successes across its top business metrics for the year in view. According to the company’s Head of PR, Olatomiwa Akande, “Konga started the year 2014 with a renewed focus on satisfying our customers. With this end…