The Application portal for the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme, #TEEP, is now open. On December 1st 2014, Tony O. Elumelu, CON announced the $100 million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) to the world. This is the flagship entrepreneurship programme of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, with the mission to identify and…
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For those who are familiar with Spiderman, they would know Dr. Octopus; the super villain with a couple of electro-mechanical appendages. It seems that Elon Musk, the South African born CEO of Tesla Motors is borrowing a leaf from Dr Octopus, in terms of using appendages. He just twitted about…
CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is asking Facebook fans to give him ideas for his 2015 personal challenge. Every year, Zuckerberg takes on a challenge to broaden his perspective and learn something about the world beyond his work at Facebook. In past years, some of his challenges have been: Learning…
The video below is “the unboxing of the Infinix Hot X507 smartphone. The Infinix Hot is from the stables of Infinix Mobility; the company that brought you the Infinix Zero. The phone currently retails for N13,400 on Konga.com. It was launched in partnership with Konga.com and Etisalat on the 14th…
The video below is “the unboxing of the Infinix Hot X507 smartphone. The Infinix Hot is from the stables of Infinix Mobility; the company that brought you the Infinix Zero. The phone currently retails for N13,400 on Konga.com. It was launched in partnership with Konga.com and Etisalat on the 14th…
2014 has been a record breaking year for e-commerce and Jumia in Nigeria, and to end the year, the Jumia team have released an infographic with amazing facts, figures and records broken in 2014. Since Jumia’s launch in 2012, the team has been committed to empowering Nigerians, building trust in…
Tony Elumelu’s Heirs Holdings has invested an undisclosed amount in a Silicon Valley based start-up, Wonderloop Wonderloop is an iPhone app that allows users connect through first-person short-form video. This app, founded by Norwegian entrepreneur Hanna Aase, allows people connect through short 10 to 15 second video profiles, replacing the static images…
Here is Matt Might’s illustrated guide to a Ph.D Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D. Imagine a circle that contains all…
Apple has now announced that Sony Pictures’ “The Interview” is now available on iTunes. This is 4 days after the film was released online via Google’s YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft’s Xbox and a dedicated website – www.seetheinterview.com. The humour-laden movie depicting the travails of two journalists played by Seth Rogen and James Franco who…
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Just when we were settling down to the fact that “The Interview” was only going to be available on Christmas Day in a few theatres, Google announced that it was contacted by Sony Pictures to make the movie available online. And it consented. https://twitter.com/google/status/547802252292157441 https://twitter.com/google/status/547814312484421632 According to David Drummond, SVP Corporate Development…
Premium Times claims that the APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, joined social media because PDP labeled him a “semi-literate jackboot”. Whether this is true or not, all that counts is that the 72 year old, one – time Military ruler is now on Social media. He posted his first tweet on…
Interswitch, a pan-African integrated payments processing and transaction switching company, has been ranked first on the Deloitte Technology Africa Fast 50, 2014, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Africa. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. A statement quoting the report from Deloitte…
Today, a historical event was held in Lokoja, Kogi State and it is good news for all Nigerians, especially mothers. The Federal Government, in collaboration with National Primary Health Care Development Agency and other Supranational Agencies, launched the new Pneumonia Vaccine into Nigeria. Pneumonia, is an infection of the lungs, needlessly…
I read Jason Njoku’s recent blog post “The Economics of Cut and Paste” where he talked about a Nollywood distribution company who launched their own SVOD platform. He mentioned that the company’s strategy had been to copy everything iROKOtv has done. For a moment I wondered who it was. I…
CcHub Nigeria has just released an infographic on how students use their mobile phones. The study explored how students in tertiary institutions use their mobile phones. The study primarily focused on mobile phone usage: motivation, purchasing factor and activities on their devices. A quantitative approach was used to collect data from…
The “Sahel” label covers a fluid space that defies classical geographic description and is characterised by the constant movement of people and goods, as well as the instability and violence that has marked recent years. Understanding this mobility and cross-border activity is vital for efforts to stabilise and develop the…
Hotels.ng, the biggest hotel booking website in Nigeria, has surpassed their milestone of 6,000 hotels in Nigeria – that is another 1,000 hotels added in just within 4 months. Hotels.ng allows customers to book hotel rooms online, providing list of hotels from all across Nigeria with hotel descriptions, photos, prices, and…
The Infinix Hot X507 is a sleek new android smartphone from Infinix Mobility and it comes in several amazing colours – silk white, brilliant yellow, radiant red, bright green, charcoal black. The Infinix Hot smartphone was launched recently with sales exclusively on Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com. This Friday, 19th…
The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E. A. Adeboye has publicly announced on his Facebook page that RCCG is not affiliated nor represented by @rccgworldwide. A tweet was posted on the Twitter handle apparently endorsing Prof Yemi Oshinbajo after the public announcement that he had…