Author: Paul Adepoju

Sage yesterday announced the launch of Sage HR Management (HRM) to the Nigerian market at the Southern Sun, Ikoyi Hotel in Lagos, bringing mid-size and large enterprises a powerful, simple and flexible Human Resources Management solution that helps them to gain efficiency in their HR processes. It is available either…

Heba Gamal of Egypt, Sangu Delle of Ghana, Willy Mukiny Yav Democratic Republic of Congo, and George Bakka from Uganda have been announced as the judging panel of Anzisha Award 2015. They will be deliberating which of the Anzisha finalists will win the prize sum of $75,000. Their selections were…

The first Bloomberg Africa Business Media Innovators 2015 summit will open next week in Johannesburg, bringing together a select audience of invited media owners, senior editors, investors, and entrepreneurs from Africa and around the world who will identify strategies and actions to accelerate development of a globally competitive media and…

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) through the COMESA Business Council (CBC) and Microsoft have taken a step toward strengthening their working alliance today by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which sets out how they will collaborate in the areas of access to technology, development of…

Silvertree Internet Holdings and Kevin Tucker have acquired PriceCheck, a leading online price comparison platform, from global media giant, Naspers, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, signed this week, sees Tucker reacquire the company he started in 2006, having sold it to Naspers in 2010. Now in its ninth year,…

Lagos state, southwest Nigeria will host this year’s Oracle Day Nigeria on November 17 with the theme, “‎Transforming Your Tomorrow”. According to Oracle, with Cloud Computing becoming an increasing essential part of any enterprise IT foundation, it is crucial that business’ stay one step ahead in their Cloud Computing Strategy.…

Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Senegal Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne joined World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry in stressing the importance of intellectual property (IP) in incentivizing innovation and creativity to promote economic and social development across Africa. Some 50 government ministers from across the…

MTN has stated that it continues to engage constructively with Nigerian authorities at all levels, but added that no resolution has been agreed with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). “The speculation and false information in the media. MTN particularly cautions against reports purporting that the company has agreed a resolution…

African internet TV pioneer, iROKO, today officially launches its global content distribution and licensing division, iROKO Global, at DISCOP. The dedicated team will license its extensive library of Nollywood films and TV series to both on and offline, across Pay TV, Internet TV, Inflight and YouTube channels. From its HQ…

As a way of combating the threat of online frauds on its platform, OLX is planning to launch a new platform which has a Report button. With the new feature, users can flag off suspicious listings or accounts every time they notice them on the platform. According to OLX, users…

A new report has predicted that the number of stores worldwide accepting card payments will double from 46.6 million at the end of 2014 to 90.3 million by 2020. RBR’s Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2020 observed that Visa and MasterCard are accepted today by 78% of merchants…

More than 5 million bank accounts have been suspended by banks across Nigeria on the order of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) following the refusal of the account holders to register for the bank verification number (BVN) as required by the CBN. Innovation Village obtained copies of account suspension…

As a result of the ongoing maintenance work being undertaken by the Nigerian Gas Company, Nigeria’s biggest power plant, Egbin Power Plant has announced a reduction in its power generating capacity from 813MW to 660MW. Confirming the development, Seun Olagunju, Public Affairs Director for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)…

Three of the semi-finalists for the SME Empowerment Innovation Challenge East & West Africa inched closer to the $70,000 seed funding after being named the finalists at the Innovating Justice Boostcamp Lagos 2015. ShopOfficer-Kenya, mSME Garage- Uganda and DIYlaw-Nigeria were among seven start-ups drawn from East and West Africa to…

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya has today partnered with the winner of DEMO Africa 2015, SimbaPay a digital money transfer provider, to offer international money transfer services to the bank’s customers in the Diaspora. Co-operative Bank accounts receiving the funds will be credited instantly. The service is currently available for…

Samsung has launched a digital village in South Africa. The digital village is in the community of Matshiding Village, Mpumalanga. A statement by Samsung revealed the digital resource will provide access to advanced ICT, education and health services to under-resourced areas; it would also bridge the digital divide and serving…

South African telecoms company MTN has reportedly agreed to pay the N1.04 trillion ($5.2 billion) fine it was asked to pay by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over its failure to deactivate improperly registered lines. Vanguard reported that the decision was reached at the end of a series of meetings involving…

The telecoms industry in Nigeria is set for more disruption with the planned launch of the industry’s latest entrant NTEL this month. The launch is expected to be the most exciting development in the industry in the last couple of years. The timing of this development couldn’t be more appropriate…

The inaugural 2015 Health Innovation Challenge Awards have been awarded to a rapid malaria test that can diagnose the disease within 25 minutes using drops of a patient’s urine sample. The test was developed in Nigeria and the prize was awarded by the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PHN)…

Marek Zmyslowski is no longer the Managing Director of online hotels booking platform Jovago Nigeria, he has been replaced with Kushal Dutta who served as Head of Revenue Management before his appointment received the mantle of leadership from Zmyslowski at a handover ceremony held yesterday at The FourPoints Hotel, Lagos.…