Author: Paul Adepoju

Entries are now being accepted for Seedstars Lagos as the Seedstars World returns to Nigeria’s tech nerve center. According to the organizers, applications can be submitted from now till July 29 for the Lagos final event that would be held on August 11. “The 10 best startups from Lagos will…

The 6th edition of Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Ghana’s annual Internet Festival (iFest), a month-long festival dedicated to data education, awareness creation and the promotion of the inherent benefits of broadband data access, has been launched in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Also dubbed the 20th anniversary edition, this year’s iFest,…

One of Senegal’s major telecoms companies, Sonatel, has been asked to remit 21.3 million Euros which is about 3 per cent of its annual revenue in 2015 to the industry regulator, the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post (ARTP), as fine for various violations notably inability to meet set requirements…

BuffrSpace, a new Nigerian startup, is kicking off its pre-launch this month. Best described as the Airbnb for workspaces, it aims to provide remote workers with on demand workspaces, the company is aiming to serve targeted users in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. In a chat with Innovation Village, the co-founder…

Millicom, the telecommunications and media company dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa, announced today that its Tigo brand in Africa has reached approximately 2.7 million active users across Africa, establishing its position as a regional leader in the mobile microinsurance space. Tigo Insurance, delivered in partnership with…

eTranzact has rolled out BankIT, a product it described as its most revolutionary product yet. According to the company, BankIT was birthed by a desire to build a payments product that everyone would truly love and easily use; whether as a Bank, a trader in Alaba setting up a website,…

Line, the operator of a Japanese messaging app that’s popular in Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan, will begin trading in New York on Thursday and in Toyko on Friday in the largest public offering of any tech company this year. Even though the app is very popular in few Asian…

Standard Bank this morning announced it is on a committed journey of rapid digitization across the continent and it said it is seeking to achieve this by offering its customers more convenient ways to interact with their personal banking services. The latest innovation in this digital transformation journey is the…

Mobile banking service company TagPay, has secured a one million dollar investment from Société Générale which in return got 8% stake in the company. The alliance formed by Société Générale and TagPay aims at facilitating the bank’s expansion while at the same time being closer to their clients. Alexandre Maymat…

Based in Munich, the Innovation Accelerator combines internal World Food Programme (WFP) staff with experts and entrepreneurs from across the private sector and civil society. Teams collaborate for three- to six-month periods on selected ideas that are either proposed by WFP innovators with first-hand field knowledge or crowd-sourced by engaging…

Leading mobile social media and value added service provider, Kirusa has announced the appointment of Francis Ebuehi as a member of its advisory board. Announcing the appointment in a statement, Kirusa described Ebuehi as ‘telecom and Internet pioneer’ Francis is currently heading Classifieds and Franchise Business for the e-commerce division…

A new report has shown that Nigerian mobile subscribers have high affinity for free messaging apps. According to Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF), 73% of Nigerian respondents said they use messaging apps because they are perceived to be free/cheap. The report also identified apps, music and video as the biggest drivers…

Even though it has been in operations for 4 years, Nigeria’s ecommerce powerhouse, Konga.com, is yet to reach the climax of its story according to the company’s director of Marketing and Customer Experience Mayowa Adebayo. “Regardless of the achievements and milestones we have reached in our four years of innovation,…

SA Post Office is set to be the latest player in South Africa’s highly competitive finance sector following South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) approval of SA Post Office’s first level application for a banking licence for Postbank. This means that Postbank is closer to offering more than just savings accounts…

Tony Scott, United States Chief Information Officer (CIO) will join leaders in industry and government and other technology thought leaders as a keynote speaker at Nigeria’s largest tech event, TechPlus2016, holding July 21-23, 2016 at the Eko Hotels Conference Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. TechPlus 2016, the second edition of Nigeria’s largest tech event, is a gathering…

The short-term implications of Brexit for African economies will be mainly noticeable through market volatility. However, according to Control Risks and NKC African Economics, the longer-term impacts on Africa from Brexit are speculative and depend as much on the attitude of future British governments as on the terms of exit.…

Last month, yet another payment company began operations in Nigeria, it is called Amplify and it is the first Nigerian payment company to focus on recurrent payments. In this interview with Innovation Village, Segun Adeyemi, co-founder of the MEST-incubated company attempted to explain why 2016 is fast becoming the year…

Avast is planning to acquire AVG for $1.3 billion. When the acquisition is completed, antivirus products of both companies will be merged. Confirming the deal yesterday, Avast which is based in Prague, Czech Republic, said it has already reached an agreement that will see AVG bought out in an all-cash…

MTN this morning officially announced the appointment of Stephen van Coller as Vice President of Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions, effective 1 October 2016.In a statement, MTN said Stephen will be the fourth Vice President of the Group, the other three having responsibility for the geographic operating regions of MTN.…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching a new #JusticeMatters social media campaign from 1 to 17 July, the Day of International Criminal Justice> It includes a Facebook photo contest and participants are invited to submit photos, to ask their networks to like and share them, and to challenge their friends to…