The average Nigerian believes that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for him to get a bank to give him a consumer loan. And with no credit history, his chances are very slim. However there is a company that believes that…
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I am a staff at Innovation Village.
Nduka Obiagbena is known to be one of the leading publishers in Nigeria and indeed the whole world. He is known for publications like “ThisDay” one of Nigaerian’s daily newspapers, “ARISE” and many more.He has now launched a a 24-hour international TV news operation, ARISE NEWS which would be broadcasting…
Philip Emeagwali and Herman Chinery-HessePhilip Emeagwali (a Nigerian) and Herman Chinery-Hesse (a Ghanaian) have been listed in Mashable’s 20 Notable Black Innovators in Tech.Philip Emeagwali (born in 1954) is a Nigerian-born engineer and computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE,…
Nokia likes to take a swipe at its competitors. They did it with a video when Apple launched its iPhone 5 and sounded a challenge to Samsung before the launch of Lumia 920. Nokia’s vice president of Sales and Marketing tweeted “Samsung take note, next generation Lumia coming soon,” less…
Ropeways Transport Limited, a cable car company, is set to launch a cable car mass urban transit system in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos.The 30-year franchise agreement for the transit system was signed recently between Ropeways Transport Limited, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Lagos State Government…
The SIM card registration exercise will officially kick off today. The three telecom players, Tigo, MTN and Airtel will conduct the exercise and sensitise subscribers, with the sector watchdog as the supervisor.The exercise is targeting a combined 5.2 million subscribers of the three telecom operators.Jean Baptiste Mutabazi, the Rwanda Utilities…
Samsung Official, Kate Henshaw and Bank WOne of the leaders in digital media and digital convergence technologies, Samsung Electronics West Africa, has unveiled its 2013 brand ambassadors for its Mobile Division. Movie industry icon Kate Henshaw and star musician, Banky W, will be working together to raise awareness for Samsung…
Safaricom has announced that as from February 8, 2013, it would cost more to carry out M-Pesa transactions.The Kenyan telecom operator said that government’s recent amendments to the Customs and Excise Duty Act, which went into effect on Friday, “has affected an upward review of its M-Pesa tariffs, which will…
ADVISORY BY DECREE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS IT SHALL HENCEFORCE BE ORDERED THAT AMERICANS SHALL NOT UNLOCK THEIR OWN SMARTPHONES. PENALTY: In some situations, first time offenders may be fined up to $500,000, imprisoned for five years, or both. For repeat offenders, the maximum penalty increases to a fine of $1,000,000, imprisonment…
Olusegun AgangaRecently Nigeria sealed a US$ 1 billion deal with the General Electric (GE) company of the US to boost the power sector in the next five years.At the ceremony held in Abuja, the Trade and Investment Minister, Olusegun Aganga, signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of the Nigerian…
Yesterday, Google launched the third annual Google Science Fair in partnership with CERN, the LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American to find the next generation of scientists and engineers. They are inviting students ages 13-18 to participate in the largest online science competition and submit their ideas to change…
I got to know about Eventbrite in 2011 when I got an invite for a Mobile Monday event in Lagos, Nigeria. I was impressed that a site like this was actually available to Nigerians for free.Since then I have been using the site for promoting events but it is actually…
Estel’s multi-operator e-Recharge platform goes live with a customer in Nigeria, West Africa. It is the first multi-operator platform to go live outside of India.Top four MNOs in Nigeria have been successfully and tightly integrated with Estel’s platform and the other three will also be integrated in the near future.…
Ms Marie-Francoise Marie-NellyLast week, The World Bank said it would spend five billion dollars (about N785 billion) on 27 projects across Nigeria in the next five years.The Country Director, Ms Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, dropped the hint at a one-day “Job Shadow Workshop’’, organised by Junior Achievers Nigeria, a Non- Governmental Organisation…
The Altech Group (Altech) has concluded the realignment of its East African network interests by injecting them into a strategic partnership with Liquid Telecommunications Holdings (Liquid), a highly successful telecommunications group operating in southern Africa.This partnership will enable Altech to put to an end the losses being incurred in East…
Swissclear Global, a Singapore-based service provider recently announced the launch of its air-time recharge offering in some African countries, namely Egypt, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With this launch, this makes the service now available in 70 countries, across 200 mobile operators, 3…
Blackberry’s CEO Thorsten Heins and Alicia KeysYes, it is true. Alicia Keys, the Grammy Award winning singer, has been appointed as the New Global Creative Director for Blackberry. CEO, Thorsten Heins announced this today at the Blackberry 10 launch event.Alicia Keys took to Twitter to express her delightHere’s what BlackBerry…
RIM CEO Thirsten Heins introducing the Q10 and Z10 today (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)At its BlackBerry 10 launch event today, Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled its new name – Blackberry, new operating system, and 2 new devices…
It seems DealDey, a GroupOn clone in Nigeria, is growing stronger in the Nigerian market when GroupOn is struggling globally. In a recent blog post by Jason Njoku about his discussion with Sim Shagaya (Owner of Dealdey and Konga), it was mentioned that DealDey’s Gross Revenue to date (December 2012) is…
iROKOtv, the world’s largest online distributor of Nigerian movies, recently announced the launch of a brand new mobile app for the platform, in an exclusive partnership with Nokia. The app has been designed to give Nollywood fans and iROKOtv PLUS subscribers access to Nollywood movies on the go, and will…