Serial Internet entrepreneur Vinny Lingham, the Co-founder and CEO of Civic – an identity protection and management solution – startup and Co-founder of Silicon Cape will speak at DEMO Africa 2016, that will take place from the 22nd to 26th August 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Lingham is founder-CEO…
Author: Paul Adepoju
Paul Adepoju
Editor at Innovation Village
Something exciting is brewing in Nigeria. Just coming from a period that saw national outcry against the Frivolous Petitions Bill, popularly known as the “Anti-Social Media Bill”, and the arrest of another blogger, it offers great hope for the future of the country that a new and citizen-friendly bill, the…
In case you are yet to get the memo, payment is the next big thing as far Nigeria’s tech ecosystem is concerned and the decision of Iyinoluwa Aboyeji to leave Andela – a company he co-founded – to launch Flutterwave a payment company is the latest argument in support of…
Health startup Kangpe, has won the Nigerian leg of Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes. The competition featured a total of 8 startups. Kangpe is a health platform that wants to put a doctor in the pocket of every African. More than…
Kaspersky Lab has launched Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool for Business – a free software that offers complementary security to protect corporate users from ransomware. To identify ransomware behaviour patterns and protect Windows-based endpoints, Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool for Business leverages two groundbreaking technologies: Kaspersky Security Network and System Watcher [1]. System Watcher’s…
MainOne, the premier connectivity and data center Solutions Company, today announced that its Data Center subsidiary, MDXi is now an SAP-certified provider of Infrastructure Services for SAP® solutions. This new certification confirms the ability of the company to deliver high-quality cloud and infrastructure operations services for customers running SAP solutions…
It is now possible for Nigerians to get UK visa within 24 hours following the launch in Nigeria of UK’s Super Priority Visa Service as communicated by the British High Commission via its official website. The service costs 750 pounds in addition to the visa fee and would be available…
An app that forecasts floods along the Rivers Niger and Benue has been launched by the federal government of Nigeria – it is referred to as as the “IWMI Wetin App”. The Android app which is now available on the Google Play Store is a joint project of the Federal…
NetplusDotCom has launched the Ten app to simplify existing church collection and to expand the reach of the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The app works seamlessly with the existing Church collection system. There is Ten app for the church administrator and another Ten app for…
Tuteria, an online tutoring service and Kangpe, a med-tech platform that connects patients with verified doctors via SMS, their mobile app, are among the eight selected to pitch at Seedstars World Lagos. They were selected out of a total of about 100 that applied. “Our mission is to discover startups…
Major fast moving goods (FMG) company Procter & Gamble (P&G) has said it has found a way to tackle school absenteeism in Kenya – free sanitary pads. The company is planning to reduce school absenteeism among girls in Kenya by providing more than 790,000 pads through its Always Keeping Girls…
Uber has announced it is partnering with Foursquare to use Foursquare Places data to help Uber drivers in find locations easily. Uber is not the only one relying on such service, other major firms including Apple, Twitter, Pinterest, Samsung, Microsoft, Yahoo, WeChat, Garmin and over 100,000 developers rely on such…
Tiphub Africa is now accepting applications for Diaspora Demo Day 2016. The largest celebration of African innovation outside of the continent of Africa, the showcase aims to spotlight high impact tech ventures and social enterprises based in Africa and the African Diaspora. The event will be embedded in a 3-day…
Xiaomi has become the latest player int he ever growing virtual reality space with the official introduction of the Mi VR Play – a gadget that is similar to Google’s Cardboard. The images of the gadget gotten by Innovation Village look like a bag to carry the VR headset it, but…
Yesterday, the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution released its 2016 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) Report: Advancing Equitable Financial Ecosystems. FDIP evaluates commitment to and progress toward financial inclusion across a set of 26 geographically, politically, and economically diverse countries, including South Africa. As authors John…
Girls Go IT Nigeria, has kicked off its summer boot camp in Mushin area of Lagos for girls from secondary schools in Lagos. The initiative is a social development platform intent on empowering girls from rural and under-served communities to acquire digital and information technology skills Kunle Afolayan, Programme Manager…
Ozaremit, a new top-up leader, accelerates its development only 3 months after its launch. Ozaremit currently covers 110 countries, including 35 countries in Africa. Ozaremit is a competitive, safe and fast online service to send airtime to family and friends living abroad. Ozaremit said it is already the cheapest service…
Arthur Anthony Okeyika, CEO of indigenous renewable energy company, Arthur Energy Technology Limited, is investing N500 million in Nigeria’s first solar powered vehicle assembly plant. The project is expected to sited in Akwa Ibom. According to estimates, the solar vehicle assembly plant being put together in partnership with the Akwa…
Nigeria’s online space further expanded this month as the country’s first online auction platform went live. The platform which was officially launched on August 1 according to Hillary Nwaukor, CEO, i-naira.com, is filling a space in the market – that of delivery of value bargains to consumers. “i-naira.com will act…
Facebook has confirmed it is running tests of mid-roll video ads inside live video broadcasts from top publishing partners. These are Facebook’s first ads that get served directly inside videos on the social network. “We’re running a small test where a group of publishers have the option to insert a…