Author: Jesse Oguntimehin

As more people warm up to electronic (and online) payment, companies providing these services are expected to reap profits as long as they can attract enough customers to their platform. Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, AliPay and Konga Pay are different companies that have chosen to process one form of electronic…

In March, Innovation Village reported ecommerce giant, Konga, announced new features which included more product variety, flexible deliver charges and a new secure payment method which is expected to be called KongaPay. More information about KongaPay revealed it can be used even if customers do not have Internet banking. Konga…

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 was released to the Nigerian market late in 2014 (last year). I was present at the launch and was impressed. The design of the phone and the way the Dual SIM was implemented was one of the few things that moved me. People who do…

I have used two InnJoo phones up till now–the InnJoo i1s and now the InnJoo One 3G HD. But I have never attended an InnJoo launch event. This happens to be my first. I got an invite and braved the traffic all the way from Victoria Island to Ikeja. Major…

Mobile phone manufacturers regularly release new devices with unique functions and shortcomings. It is therefore a rather frustrating task for individuals seeking to buy new devices to decide whether to buy the latest Samsung Galaxy or stick to the Lumia series. When cost is an issue, the individual may consider…

I saw the BlackBerry Passport before it was released officially. It was during TPL 2—Twitter Premier League, 2nd edition in September 2014. The gentleman was one of the people that were testing the device on one of Nigeria’s Telco network. He allowed me to play with it a little, but…

From the very first day I saw the Huawei Ascend P7, I’ve fallen in love with it. What I fell in love with mostly is the design. Not that the physical design is extraordinary in any way though, its design looks like a rip off from Apple’s playbook. If someone…

Why should you be reading this post? After all the BlackBerry Z30 was released about a year ago. I’ll tell you why. I stopped getting invites to BlackBerry events because I personally haven’t enjoyed using BlackBerry phones and I make it clear on my BlackBerry phone reviews while showcasing the…

Matatu operators in Nairobi. have to go completely cashless, while commuters are required to carry a preloaded card as a means of payment. No new Matatu operators will be registered until they comply with this new system. It is said that many of the members of the public that use…

Huawei is about the third largest smartphone maker in the world. While some people wonder how credible the Huawei brand is here in Nigeria and spoke to me that they’re not ready to pay close to NGN90,000 for a Huawei smartphone, Huawei is a top player in the global scene…

The $120 USD dollar smartphone range is experiencing a boom. The number of phones that are produced whose prices are very close to the $100 USD range are growing in number as well as growing in specs. Today, Motorola just released the Moto E into the market. Like the Moto…

Many of the people suffering from blindness and different eye defects could be helped and cured if they had access to proper diagnosis and then treatment. By harnessing mobile phone apps, hardware and rigorous scientific testing, a group have created an easy to use, affordable and portable system for testing eyes…

The former Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Chief Economist, Mr. Jim O’Neill, has invested in Paga, an indigenous mobile payments service company according to Nigerian newspaper, Punch. O’Neil is famed for coining the acronym BRIC and then later, MINT. The MINT countries, according to O’Neil, are the next set of…

Developing internationally competitive human capital is critical to significant economic gains. Helios Consult Limited, Philips Consulting and Softcom Limited came together to create a solution to help achieve human capital development starting from the senior secondary school by Introducing the Knowledge Tab to the market as a commercial product. They…

Ghana’s premier online shop, Ahonya.com, just concluded a seed funding round with Rio Technology Partners and Savanah Fund. Ahonya.com is Ghana’s Premier online shopping site founded by three young guys to enable Ghananians buy authetic electronics, fashion and other hosuehold items. Ahonya was launched over a year and a half…

Native advertisement is an online advertising method where the advertiser attempts to gain attention by providing content in the context of the user’s experience; while not distrusting the user’s flow. Om Malik in an article he wrote for Fastcompany asserted that Native Ad is going to work primarily for social…

Mobile Money is as confusing to me as Nigerian Politics is. I had to dive deep into Mobile Money with the quest to understand it and see what problem it solves that hasn’t been solved (properly) by a solution we already have on ground in Nigeria. I wrote this article…

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has zero rated Wikipedia, Coursera, EDX.org Udacity.com Codeacademy.com and Udemy.com. What this means is that anyone with an Econet Wireless SIM in Zimbabwe can access these websites without subscribing to any Internet data plan as long as they have an internet enabled phone. In nigeria, we have…

BuniTV prides itself as the leading video-on-demand (VoD) for high quality African contents. It launched Buni+ on Monday March 3rd, 2013. Buni+ subscribers will have access to a range of top African movies for $5 USD a month. When I met Marie, the founder and CEO, in Lagos some months…

Smile Communications Nigeria on Monday 24th February, 2014 rolled out their service to Lagos consumers after a successful roll out in Ibadan (Western Nigeria). Smile has initially tested its service in some strategic locations in Lagos before making their service available to members of the public. Smile is incorporated in…