Cars45, Nigeria’s leading automotive trading platform, has launched into Ghana (www.cars45.com.gh) and Kenya (www.cars45.co.ke). Cars45 is aiming to become the primary platform for all car transactions in the $45 billion African used car market and expansion into these strategic markets marks an important step on that journey. In an African…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
It was double honours for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Thursday (5/12/2019), as the Commission and its Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, won two separate awards. While the Commission received the “Corporate Social Responsibility Award” in security and emergency management, the Executive Vice Chairman beat other…
Co-founder and CEO of Kobo360, Obi Ozor, was last Thursday night named ‘Young Business Leader of the Year’ and ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 9th All Africa Business Leaders Awards [AABLA] in partnership with CNBC Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. With over six years of logistics and supply chain…
Instagram will now require that new members provide their date of birth when signing up for an account to enable it to plan for more “age-appropriate experiences”. The photo-sharing network already requires people to be at least 13 years old to create an account. The new move will assist the…
Pablo Escobar’s brother Roberto is taking on Samsung with the launch of a new foldable Smartphone called the “Escobar Fold 1.” Earlier this year, Roberto had rolled out his brand of a flamethrower, a move he said was inspired by Elon Musk’s viral Not a Flamethrower. The Escobar Fold 1…
Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour has emerged as the most downloaded game on iPhone for 2019 according to a chart released today by Apple. Also, the free-to-play version of Mario Kart, which was rolled out in September topped the free game charts. Nintendo’s game saw off competition from Call of Duty:…
MTN Nigeria has acknowledged the remarkably critical role played by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in creating the regulatory platform for an early trial of Fifth Generation (5G) technology deployment in the country. Mohammed Rufai, Chief Technical Officer of MTN, gave the commendation at the second trial of 5G technology…
Social media video platform TikTok restricted the reach of videos made by people living with disabilities. Affected by the restriction include people with facial disfigurement and people living with Down syndrome. Netzpolitik.org after speaking with a source inside the company revealed that the policy was made to protect users with…
Facebook will today roll out a new tool that will enable users to transfer photos directly to Google Photos. The tool will debut first in Ireland and will be released worldwide in the first half of 2020. Director of Privacy and public policy at Facebook, Steve Satterfield explained, “The photo…
Migo (formerly Mines.io), a startup reinventing the way people access and use credit in emerging markets, has completed a Series B equity round of $20 million led by Valor Capital Group, a Brazil-focused venture capital firm. Existing investors, The Rise Fund (managed by TPG Growth) and Velocity Capital, also joined…
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has been conferred with the Fellowship of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The Conferment ceremonies held on 30/11/19 in Kano where Danbatta also delivered the Institute’s 14th Distinguished Electrical And Electronic Engineer Annual Lecture…
Kenyan e-commerce platform Copia Global which serves unbanked customers in rural parts of Kenya has secured USD 26 Mn in seed funding led by LGT Lightstone. LGT Lightstone was joined by other investors: Perivoli Innovations, Goodwell Investments, ELEA, and Endeavor Catalyst. The startup was launched in 2015and had only raised…
Twitter has given an update on its plan to deactivate inactive accounts on its platform. As it stands currently, the social media giant has said it has suspended plans to delete accounts until it can come up with ways to preserve the accounts of deceased people. Twitter in a tweet…
Twitter has launched an initiative ‘Twittering Dead Project’ that will ensure that tweets from deceased loved ones will be preserved even as it has announced it will begin weeding the platform of inactive accounts next month. Internet Archive software curator and digital preservationist Jason Scott, who announced the initiative asked…
Nigeria’s tech leaders are calling for hundreds of more survivors of the Nigeria Police’s systematic attacks on the country’s young tech entrepreneurs and workers to come forward, as they commence legal proceedings. The #StopRobbingUs campaign was launched in September 2019, to put an end to the common practice where Nigerian…
Ahead of the 2020 launch of the Fifth Generation (5G) telecommunications services in Nigeria, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday, enthusiastically supervised the execution of the proof of concept trial of 5G telecom services by MTN Communications, a leading network operator in Nigeria. The demonstration, which took place at the…
Social media giant Facebook will today launch a new market research app called Viewpoints. Just a few months ago, the company had rolled out Study, an Android data collection app designed to monitor what and for how long users are accessing other software on the Google-owned operating system. Both apps…
Nigerian edtech learning platform uLesson has closed a $3.1mn seed-level round led by TLcom Capital with participation by Sim Shagaya – the founder, to address infrastructure and learning gaps in Africa’s education sector. Targeting secondary school learners across the West African region, uLesson will launch officially in February 2020, having…
MTN Nigeria will today make a presentation on its 5G network in an event scheduled to take place in Abuja, the Capital of Nigeria. This follows the telecom’s announcement earlier that it would commercially roll out the 5G in Nigeria before 2020. The company said the new move will aid…
Twitter has rolled out a new feature which allows users to hide unwanted replies to control the level of toxicity on the platform. Twitter announced on Thursday it is rolling out the new tool globally. It also disclosed that it had been testing the option earlier this year in selected…