YouTube Gaming head Ryan Wyatt has revealed that users of the video-sharing site watched 100 billion hours of gaming content on the platform this past year, double the number of hours watched in 2018. In a breakdown of the 100 billion figures, 10 billion of those hours were of YouTube…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), in line with the Federal Government desire to consolidate the achievement of the SIM Card registration exercise of September 2019, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to embark on another audit of the Subscriber Registration Database…
China has taken out 105 apps from its app stores as part of a campaign to weed off content related to pornography, prostitution, gambling, and violence. The majority of the banned apps are Chinese but the US travel app TripAdvisor is also included on the list. According to the Cyberspace…
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) (AECFAfrica.org) has launched a Results Based Financing Programme aimed at unlocking new markets for clean energy companies in Kenya. The US$ 4 million programme will support commercially viable companies establish new markets and accelerate access to clean energy for 87,000 unserved and underserved households…
Niger has disclosed it is working on implementing power projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars nationwide. The country’s Secretary-General in the Ministry of Energy, Balla Mahaman Rabiou announced this during a working visit of the African Energy Chamber (EnergyChamber.org). Rabious said that his country had concluded preliminary studies for…
Global, science-led biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca (AstraZeneca.com) has announced its partnership with MYDAWA as part of its commitment to work towards a future where all people have access to sustainable healthcare solutions for life-changing treatment and prevention. Through the partnership with Kenya’s leading ePharmacy, patients will have convenient, private access to…
The Ecobank Academy, which is the corporate university of the leading pan-African banking group, Ecobank (Ecobank.com), is providing bespoke financial management training courses for national and regional alliance members of the NCD Alliance (NCDA) as part of its Advocacy Institute Seed Programme. The training, which follows a Memorandum of Understanding…
IFC & Kobo360 Invite Innovative Cooling Solution Projects for Nigeria’s Food, Health, and other Industries IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in partnership with Kobo360, an African digital logistics platform, today announced an open call for innovators from around the world to bring climate-smart, temperature-controlled logistics (TCL) cooling…
Webb Fontaine (WebbFontaine.com) was presented with a double header of prestigious titles at this year’s Nigerian Technology Awards (NiTA). A leading provider of solutions for Trade Facilitation powered by Artificial Intelligence, Webb Fontaine was one of the event’s big winners, landing the two of the most sought-after honours: Most Enterprising…
BroadReach Group (www.BroadReachCorporation.com) today proudly announces its role as partner on the recently launched Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. BroadReach has integrated its cloud platform for population health management – Vantage – with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Vantage provides management decision-support and operational tools to governments and private sector payer and provider organizations…
An Innovation Accelerator for the young African Innovators focused on promoting democracy and governance on the continent, has concluded after an intense program aimed at bridging the gaps in technical skills needed to stimulate growth and expansion of their innovative solutions. The Accelerator program was tailor-made for the selected Top…
The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a new alliance, the Africa Infodemic Response Alliance (AIRA), to coordinate actions and pool resources in combating misinformation around COVID-19 pandemic and other health emergencies in Africa. Digital platforms have been inundated with COVID-19-related information since the pandemic began in late 2019. Information…
Discovery Inc. is joining the streaming league as it gets set to launch its streaming service called Discovery+. The company hopes to edge out competition as it will focus on unscripted shows about romance, food, and home improvement that will it stand out in a highly competitive market. The company…
Leading pan-African banking group, Ecobank (Ecobank.com), has won awards from EMEA Finance, The Banker and Global Finance. Ecobank’s awards in the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards 2020 includes the pan-African award for Financial Inclusion, and ‘Best Bank’ in Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, Gabon, The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia and Mali.The…
LaLiga (www.LaLiga.com) has signed mobile technology company Mondia group (www.Mondia.com) as its technology and commercial partner for the creation of LaLiga Xtra, its first ever subscription-based mobile platform, to offer exclusive content and experiences to sports fans.Through an agreement with Orange group, the platform will be made available in the…
Pan-African Bank, Ecobank has inaugurated the Smart Small And Medium Enterprise (SME) Agency Banking campaign aimed at empowering 100,000 entrepreneurs under the Ecobank SME and Agency Banking proposition. Ecobank Nigeria’s Head of SME, Emeka Agbada stated that the initiative was unveiled in concordance with the bank’s resolve to support the…
Webb Fontaine (www.WebbFontaine.com) has revealed plans to launch an Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Centre in Africa. The move aims to answer to an important demand by Governments globally, to implement an AI-powered solution for Trade. Webb Fontaine founder and Trade Technology Innovator, Jean Gulbenk Gurunlian made this known during the…
Kwik Delivery (Kwik. Delivery) and Mastercard announce a partnership starting this very day to provide discounts on all Kwik Delivery services to Mastercard cardholders in Nigeria. Mastercard has over 70 million customers in Nigeria, making it the de facto leader on the debit card market in the country. All Mastercard…
The Federal Government has launched the Commodity and Export Department Young Professionals Programme (CED-YP) aimed at enabling young Nigerian professionals acquire network skills needed for public administration expertise. The programme was launched on Monday by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo. The programme would also be coordinated…
The African Development Bank has approved a $5 million investment in the SPARK+ Africa Fund to deliver clean cooking solutions to over two million households across Africa. The European Commission will contribute an additional €10 million. The Bank’s investment, which will come from its Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA),…