Author: Paul Adepoju

DSTV subscribers can now enjoy live coverage of all the Holy Ghost Services, Annual Conventions and Holy Ghost Congress of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. This follows the expansion of MultiChoice Africa’s religion genre to include Dove TV, the official television station of the Redeemed Christian Church of God…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reportedly slashed the fine slammed on MTN from the original N1,040,000,000,000 (One Trillion, Forty Billion Naira) to N674 Billion Naira. This was revealed this morning by MTN in a statement made available to Innovation Village. According to the network, it received a formal letter…

Over the next three years, Airtel will be spending $9.04 billion on network expansion. Specifically, the network is driving mobile broadband access to villages and fixed broadband to towns across Asia and Africa. For this initiative, Airtel is targeting 500,000 villages for connectivity with plans to double the number of…

ViiV Healthcare through its Positive Action for Children Fund (PACF), announces today the 34 new community-based organisations from 16 countries that will receive funding in 2015/16 to support local responses to help eliminate mother to child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV in affected communities across Sub-Saharan Africa. The news was highlighted…

TB Alliance and its partners announced today the availability of child-friendly tuberculosis (TB) medicines in the correct doses. The improved treatments are the first to meet the dosage guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2010. They are dispersible and palatable, simple to administer and affordable. The availability…

A total of 100 000 Nigerian youths will benefit from a strategic partnership between tech giant Microsoft and Shoespeed and Italian Shoemaker, Scali Shoes. The beneficiaries will be acquiring shoe making skills under the initiative which Microsoft said will help to mitigate the country’s unemployment challenge. Microsoft added that the…

Off Grid Electric, a Tanzanian startup that provides solar energy, has announced it has secured $25 million funding. The company said it will use the additional fund to expand to Rwanda. Disrupt Africa reported the funding includes investors DBL Investors, Zouk Capital, Vulcan Capital and SolarCity – which have also…

Tutlub  has softly launched the Android version of its free    mobile    app    that    is    designed    to    let    Muslims    connect    with    other    Muslims    to    supplicate,    communicate    and    learn    together    as    an    online    Muslim family. “As Muslims,    we    have    two    major    categories    of    social    groups.    The    first    social    group is our    Muslim    social    group.  …

The former Managing Director of Lamudi Nigeria Obi Ejimofo has been unveiled as the head of African operations for Asoko Insight as the venture shifts gears on the heels of its recent funding round. Ejimofo was already part of the Asoko Insight advisory team and will now lead the venture’s…

SME and Franchising Nigeria Exhibition and Congress, organised by Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions, is set to hold this week for the first time on December 2-3 2015 at the Eko International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. The event is supported by governmental bodies SMEDAN, NOTAP, NIFA and NASME. According…

Last week, Innovation Village reported the launch of WeChat Wallet in South Africa. WeChat has also partnered with the Western Union Company to allow WeChat users in the USA to send money cross-border to 200 countries and territories via the company’s WU Connect platform. This collaboration further solidifies Western Union as…

One of Nigeria’s major banks, Stanbic IBTC, has officially launched NCR interactive teller machine (ITM)to allow the bank’s customers to perform full banking activities anytime of the day. The bank said the move is in furtherance of ongoing drive to serve its customers better through excellent and innovative products and…

Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange, and Isabelle Kocher, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of ENGIE, have signed a partnership covering two projects – the expansion of the rural electricity grid and ENGIE’s optimisation of energy supplied to Orange’s telecoms infrastructure in Africa. The deal between Orange and ENGIE––both official…

Millicom, the leading telecommunications and media company in Africa and Latin America, released research today that shows the company has made a major impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of African children through its community projects. The data revealed that in 2014, more than 400,000 children in Africa…

Sim Shagaya, Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s ecommerce giant Konga.com has announced the company recorded NGN110 million worth of orders within 4 hours of its Black Friday’s Yakata sales campaign. He added that more Konga shoppers are choosing to pay via KongaPay than other payment methods. “More transaction volume flowing…

Nigeria’s iDEA Incubator has announced they are will soon start receiving applications for their incubator program. In a newsletter gotten by Innovation Village, the incubator said they are seeking to support early stage tech entrepreneurs for up to one year with infrastructure, mentorship, business advisory and professional services in order to help validate…

A Nigerian startup, 1Plify has been selected among 11 other startups to join NUMA, a French accelerator with interests in the India’s tech ecosystem. This follows a rigorous selection process which received over 200 applications across India. NUMA Bengaluru is the first 6-month mentor driven accelerator and growth program for…

Jumia has just announced it is collaborating with Spar, Smartmark and C’N’C to bring Black Friday in Nigeria to both physical and online stores. This is a stepping stone in Nigeria’s retail landscape as 2015 will be the first year Black Friday mega sales are brought offline, deepening furthermore the…

The Kenyan has revealed plans aimed at doubling internet penetration in the country by 2017. In line with this goal, the government is providing investors planning to set up broadband infrastructure with financial support from the National Treasury. Announcing this plan, Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said he was…

The US Centers for Disease Prevention & Control (CDC) has approved the use of Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medicine taken daily that can be used to prevent getting HIV. PrEP is for people without HIV who are at very high risk for getting it from sex or injection drug use.…