Author: Paul Adepoju

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is planning to spend $80 million over the next three years to close gender data gaps and help accelerate progress for women and girls around the world. This plan was announced by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in her…

MTN Mobile Money has become the fastest growing method of receiving WorldRemit international money transfers in Ghana, according to the remittance company. It said the number of transfers received on mobile accounts is growing by 13% per month on average, as Ghanaians abroad discover the convenience of sending instantly to…

Dominique Collett, a senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investment Holdings and head of AlphaCode, a club for fintech entrepreneurs, writes of Africa’s fintech success stories and the failure of M-Pesa in South Africa. Fintech is disrupting the way ordinary Africans manage and use money. And these fintech players are…

Vodacom Business Nigeria has trained female students of Clemmy High School, Agodo-Egbe, Lagos, on Internet of Things (IoT) as part of its support for the Girls in ICTprogramme. The students who were students from SS1 and SS2 learned how IoT is used in ensuring people’s safety and in securing property…

Mr. Paul Lee, Managing Director, Samsung Electronics West Africa, believes that art and technology are somehow related and linked in someway. According to him, art and technology derive strength and inspiration from one another. He said that this relationship between the fields that used to appear unrelated had been in…

Nigerians were very angry when UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, was caught off record telling the Queen of England that Nigeria and Afghanistan are fantastically corrupt countries. Were they angry because he called Nigeria a corrupt country, were they angry he compared Africa’s economic powerhouse with Afghanistan? The best answer…

Ethiopia and China on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for their partnership on a project dubbed Africa Information Super Highway, a project for cooperation between China and Africa in information and communication technology (ICT). The MoU will enable the two countries to carry out joint activities under the…

Nigerian government is consideration various options for the Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited. According to Minister of Communications, Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, the company is going to decide whether to embark on outright privatisation of the firm or commercialisation. He said the decision has become necessary as a result of the…

Social media giant Facebook yesterday launched its Free Basics in Nigeria in partnership with Airtel. The service offers the network’s subscribers free access to services available on the Free Basics platform which means users will not incur any costs when they access the websites via Airtel. Free Basics provides basic…

Nigeria’s largest telecoms network MTN will roll out LTE services in Nigeria in July. The service which would be piloted in selected cities will be deployed via the 800MHz frequency MTN secured from Visafone when it acquired the company. MTN wants to have 1,500 LTE sites transmitted with fibre optics…

Applications are being accepted for this year’s edition of the Innovating Justices Challenges competition organised by HiiL Justice Accelerator and Ford Foundation. As usual the competition seeks to fund access to justice-focused bright ideas and businesses. This year, organizers said the focus is on SME Empowerment and Family Justice. The…

Adoption of eHealth private-public partnerships will create more than 700,000 new jobs according to Andrew Kibirige Lutwama, Uganda’s Ministry of Health eHealth Adviser. Speaking at the fourth Vodafone Power Talks held at the Kampala Serena Hotel recently, Lutwama said ehealth has high socio-economic potentials. “The estimated socio-economic potential for eHealth…

It is now possible for telecoms subscribers in Nigeria to stop telecoms operators from calling and sending unsolicited SMS with the decision of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to compel all operators in the country to set up a USSD service that enables subscribers to remove their lines from the…

YouTube and the Kenyan government are at crossroads over a Kenyan music video that promotes homosexuality – an act that is outlawed in Kenya. The video was banned by the Kenya Film and Classification Board (KFCB) but is still accessible on YouTube. YouTube however put a disclaimer describing it as…

This week, celebrity and billionaire, Donald Trump, emerged the presumptive presidential candidate of the Republican Party sending cold shivers down the spines of many Americans and other citizens of the world. In the truest sense of it all, very few people gave Trump a chance since his campaigns were ridiculous…

The world’s leading remittance company, Western Union, is eyeing the fast growing bitcoin market and seems to be interested in getting a sizeable portion of the bitcoin market as suggested by its recent decision to invest in bitcoin accelerator Digital Currency Group (DGC). Industry watchers believe Western Union’s move will…

Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos will next host this year’s edition of the Digital Broadcasting Africa Forum organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO). According to the organizers, the event builds on the successful Digital Broadcasting Switchover Forum Africa events that have taken place over the last decade, and…

Instagram has announced it is introducing a new algorithm which will affect the order in which you see photos and there are concerns that it would have impacts on digital marketers who work with social media influencers. Gone will be the reverse-chronological feed that made it simple to schedule posts…

According to Sage, with the threat of cyber-crime and insider fraud on the rise, Kenyan companies should be looking towards cloud applications as one means of improving the security of their IT environments, said Dr. Rutendo Hwindingwi, Divisional Director for Sage East and West Africa (http://www.SageAfrica.com), who says that Kenyan…

The top ten of the 2016 #Hack.Jozi Challenge has been announced. The varied ideas include ways for parents to reduce screen time for their children, a free pick up and drop off laundry service and an online platform to upload or download building plans for quicker approval by local authorities.…