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JUMIA, Nigeria’s largest online retail store offers one of the best phone tablets in the market at the lowest price in Nigeria. The X-touch is one of the best tablet brands available in Nigeria with premium specifications to fit a wide range of tablet users. The X-touch is available in…

Today marks 25 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid November. In the…

The board of Ecobank Plc has told its chief executive, Thierry Tanoh, to step down for Albert Essien, its deputy CEO. This follows months of turmoil and crisis in the company. The board has also reinstated the finance director, Laurence do Rogo, as demanded by Nigeria’s securities regulator, which is…

Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has reaffirmed its commitment to Chad by partnering with the Ministry of Secondary Education to train 6,000 youth in the country. The training will focus nurturing young talent to improve their information and communications…

Oando Foundation, in conjunction with the United States Global Partnership Initiative Department, LIONS@FRICA, CoderDojo and the Hello World Foundation, has launched an ICT initiative to empower Nigerian students with technological skills for the 21st Century. The partnership is based on the global CoderDojo scheme which is an open source, volunteer…

Today, Africa’s no.1 booking portal Jovago will have over 2000 hotel listings in Africa. The first year of business is not yet finished and Jovago already offers the widest range of African hotels. With this broad selection of hotels to choose from, the online booking service provides its customers with…

2014 has begun in grand style in the world of online shopping with new offerings, clearance sales, 48 hour deals and other weekly promotions on Konga.com This week, Nigeria’s Largest Online Mall, Konga.com wants every Nigerian student, adult or child to have access to the educational and entertainment benefits that…

The self proclaimed “Special One”, Jose Mourinho, has been unveiled as Yahoo’s 2014 Global Sports Ambassador. Mourinho – a Champions League winner with both Porto and Inter, and two-time Premier League champion with Chelsea – is one of the most successful and respected managers in the history of football. He currently manages…

Google is celebrating this year’s International Women’s Day with an animated Google Doodle. This truly International Women’s Day doodle features a host of over a 100 inspiring women from around the world. According to Google, “women have historically been underrepresented in almost all fields: science, school curricula, business, politics —…

Sim Shagaya, CEO of Konga.com will be part of a discussion on the breakfast morning show “Sunrise” on Channels tv(DSTV Channel 254) holding this Saturday March 7, 2014. The discussion will be centered on how Nigeria can use the opportunity of hosting the World Economic Forum on Africa to attract…

Global property player Lamudi at the forefront of women’s revolution in tech industry This International Women’s Day, ladies everywhere will celebrate breaking the glass ceiling in industries of all kinds. And while the global tech industry has copped its fair share of criticism as being male-dominated, in the heart of…

National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has raised concerns over cybersecurity in Nigeria. At a workshop organized by the commission in Abuja, Chris Onyemenam, DG of NIMC spoke on the theme “Applying big data analytic and active cyber defence in large scale identity management system”. He said the commission decided to…

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) said it plans to register more than 250,000 .ng domain names before the end of 2014. According to the president of the association, Mrs. Mary Uduma, as at December 2013, more than 50,000 .ng domain names had been registered through NiRA’s registrars. “We are expecting…

Federal government of Nigeria yesterday (Thursday) announced major reforms and costs for all the categories of the Nigerian e-passport. According to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the reforms are aimed at forestalling identity theft and conforming to international standards. The reforms are contained in a statement signed by the comptroller-general…

Ad Dynamo has announced it has more than 50,000 publishers on its paid content platform. The publishers get paid by advertisers for the content they produce on their sites. According to the South Africa-based ad network, its content marketing platform “allows brands explore thousands of publishers, negotiate a price to…

SanDisk, the global leader in flash memory storage solutions has introduced 128GB SanDisk Ultra® microSDXC™ UHS-I Card, the memory card with the world’s largest capacity. The card was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress and works exclusively on Android devices. “Want to record a full 24 hours of HD video,…

The LeadPath Accelerator Programme is launching today, 7th of March 2014. Led by Olumide Soyombo, a technology entrepreneur based in Lagos, the LeadPath Accelerator will help startups take advantage of opportunities that they see. Its mission is to power legendary companies in Africa by bridging the gap between start-up to market dominance.…

An online stockbroking platform has been launched by Meristem Securities, a major stockbroker. The virtual trading platform is called Meritrade. It comes with mobile apps and will help users to trade stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange from anywhere in the world. Speaking at the launch held at the Nigerian…

The website of Kenya’s ministry of transport has been by a Turkish Muslim group that calls itself Ayyildiz Tim. It said it decided to hack the website following the actions of the government in Kenya that it found as not respecting Islam. “All the Muslims are together. The CYBER-WAR will…

Dr. Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the commission will license 2.5 and 2.6GHz spectrum bands before the end of the year. This he said is in addition to other retail services. “We are also going to license more retail services and…