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With the goal of allowing its subscribers to watch quality productions on its channels, MultiChoice, Africa’s leading digital pay TV has announced plans to launch DStv Explora BoxOffice. Disclosing this at a brunch for Nigerian nominees of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA), John Ugbe, managing director, MultiChoice Nigeria,…

Oracle today introduced Oracle Mobile Security Suite, enabling organizations to safely provide access to sensitive enterprise applications and data on users’ preferred mobile devices. In a statement made available to Innovation Village, the company said the new suite along with Oracle’s existing Identity and Access solutions deliver an integrated platform…

Several companies such as global player Lamudi (www.lamudi.com) offer a way how finding and booking an apartment can be easy and fun. Now operating in 11 countries throughout Africa, the real estate giant picked out five top cities in Africa that are all different, but exciting to live in. Their…

Smile, a major 4G LTE broadband internet service provider in Tanzania, specifically Dar es Salaam and Arusha, yesterday (Thursday) announced the launch of its “Win an iPad” promotion for March. According to the company, 13 new Smile customers will win an Apple iPad in weekly draws. Smile Head of Sales,…

In Fortune’s  annual ranking of the world’s most admired companies, Apple topped the charts yet again for 2014. Amazon took second place and Google took third. Last year, Google was second while Amazon was third. Fortune says it is admired because: The iconic tech company known for the iPhone and other stylish and…

Stephen Gary “Steve” Wozniak, known as “Woz”, is an American inventor, electronics engineer and computer programmer who co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly designed both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s. Sometimes referred to as the other Steve, the Woz will be in Nigeria on the 4th (Lagos) and 5th (Port-Harcourt) of March 2014, courtesy…

One of Nigeria’s first generation universities, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is set to host the 4th Edition of Education Network Conference -EduNet 2014. The conference would be held at the university’s CT Centre and the Institute for Entrepreneurship Development Studies of Obafemi Awolowo University in Partnership with Tel Aviv…

As can be seen from the list below, the profiles with the top 10 Twitter followers is made up of mostly musicians. Only Victor Moses, Genevieve Nnaji and NigerianNewsdesk are the odd ones.  Guess the musicians are the ones with the exciting lives. Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, otherwise known as Wizkid,…

In order to stem the growing rate of electronic frauds in Nigeria, the nation’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has unveiled new security policies that would protect bank customers and the business community. According to the acting governor of CBN, Dr. Sarah Alade, the new strategy will…

Umar Abdulhamid, deputy director, Corporate Communications of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has announced that the commission is currently registering 100,000 Nigerians per week. Speaking in Lagos, he said the commission is meeting the target its offices in the states, including the Federal Capital Territory, and Enrolment Centres in…

Deepankar Rustagi, General Manager of VConnect, Africa’s largest local search engine has told Innovation Village that the platform was launched with the goal of bridging the gap created by lack of local contents. “We wondered why there was no local content on the internet for Nigeria, and thought up several…

The Tony Elumelu Foundation announced today that it has provided grant support for the Nigeria Innovations Cluster Mapping project. Executed by the African Institution of Technology’s (AFRIT) Education Foundation, the project intends to uncover innovation clusters—groups of companies in similar industries employing new technologies in their business—across Nigeria. The research provided by…

Are you under 35 years of age and have a business or social venture idea that can create value and provide an impetus to the industrial or social sector in India and Africa? Participate in this contest to win attractive cash prizes and a chance get recognized at an international…

MoboFree, a major mobile social marketplace in Africa has announced it has secured a significant undisclosed growth funding from Netherlands-based eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund), with participation from Million Monkeys, a seed investment company based in the Netherlands. The marketplace’s co-founder and CEO, Neringa Kudarauskiene said with the new funding, the…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has declared that it is not planning to give telecoms subscribers any compensation for the poor quality of service being offered by the telecoms companies. The decision of the commission follows calls by stakeholders in the sector that subscribers should benefit from the monetary sanctions…

Award winning Senegalese American artiste Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam, popularly known as Akon, is on a mission to light up 1 million homes before the end of 2014. He intends to do this through the “Akon Lighting Africa” initiative which will address this concern…

The Putting Nitrogen Fixation to Work in Africa (N2Africa) project which aims at encouraging smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to grow legumes due to their ability to fix nitrogen from the air into the soils thus improving soil fertility, and for their nutrition and commercial value, has launched its activities…

Chika Nwobi, founder of Lagos-based L5Lab and Kresten Buch, founder of Cape Town and Nairobi-based 88mph will this Friday unveil a new fund for Nigeria’s best mobile and internet startups. At the event to be held in Lagos, the founders of 2 of Africa’s most successful seed investment companies will…

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has announced that the global food delivery app foodpanda/hellofood will launch across the Nokia Asha, Lumia and X family of devices. Many partners such as Facebook, BBM, Twitter, LINE, Viber, Electronic Arts, Gameloft and Rovio are also making their key apps available…

Entries to the 2014 African Blogger Awards (http://www.africanbloggerawards.com), the continent’s very first awards programme that measures online and social influencers’ reach and influence through data analysis, are open to bloggers, Instagrammers, Tweeters and YouTubers across Africa. The Awards have been divided into 36 categories, providing the opportunity for influencers on…