Author: Paul Adepoju

The second round of the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund is now open for applications. The Fund provides selected start-ups in Africa and Asia Pacific with grant funding, technical assistance, and the opportunity to partner with mobile operators in their markets to help scale their products and services into sustainable…

The days of classrooms where a teacher’s desk sits at the front and students’ desks are neatly arranged in rows will soon be over. In the future, classrooms will no longer be described as rooms within a school, where students are taught, but rather any space where learning takes place.…

The Nigerian government through the ministry of communication is taking active steps towards the inauguration of an ICT University, the latest step being the inauguration of a 25-man ICT University implementation committee. Speaking in support of the university, Adebayo Shittu, Nigeria’s communication minister, said the ICT industry is the fastest growing…

Emmanuel Nnorom is the new Group Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Holdings and he is to be reporting directly to Tony Elumelu, the Group Chairman. Nnorom whose appointment was announced by the board will assume the new duty today June 1, 2017. Until his latest appointment, he served as the…

The management of Guaranty Trust Bank has announced the launch of GTWorld, a mobile banking app that has biometric authentication features such as facial recognition and fingerprint. According to a statement by the company, the aim of the new app is to recognize a customer and adapt to how and when they…

According to the recently released Global Innovation Index (GII) 2016, 19 African countries rank higher than Nigeria which ranked Nigeria 114th out of 128 countriessurveyed and considered to be innovating and thinking ahead. The African countries that performed better than Nigeria on the list include Mauritius, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia,…

Nigeria’s Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) is partnering with Google for Entrepreneurs to launch PitchDrive – a three week, five-city European tech hub tour across London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich and Paris. In a statement announcing the tour, the partnering institutions said it will bring 15 elite African tech companies together to pitch to investors, explore international opportunities and…

A new Wi-Fi roaming hub has been launched by Liquid Telecom, it enables operators and ISPs to access its network of public Wi-Fi hotspots across Africa for the first time in a move expected to allow Liquid Telecom’s wholesale customers to access its public Wi-Fi hotspots, enable their subscribers to…

The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have reached a political agreement on the WiFi4EU initiative and its funding which supports installing free public Wi-Fi hotspots in local communities across the EU: in public squares, piazzas, parks, hospitals and other public spaces. As stated by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker,…

Tizeti Inc., owners of Wifi.com.ng, has reportedly secured an investment from venture capital firm, Zeno Ventures. Tizeti Inc. is a Menlo Park, CA and Lagos, Nigeria based startup that participated in the latest batch of Y Combinator. Tizeti has developed a cost effective solution to provide reliable broadband internet services to densely…

Social media giant Twitter has extended First View to Nigeria. First View is a video product from Twitter which allows advertisers, particularly brands, to use Twitter’s top advertisement slot for 24 hours. This vantage position can be used by advertisers and brands to share their brand story using video. According to…

Social media giant Facebook has added two new features to the Facebook Live which the company said will make Live more fun, social and interactive. The new features are – Live Chat with Friends and Live With. Facebook Live Product Managers,  Erin Connolly and Fred Beteille, said the Live Chat with Friends feature allows…

A total of 5,000 tablet devices have been procured by the government of Kaduna state for distribution to students in public secondary schools across the state to boost learning, this was disclosed yesterday by Prof. Andrew Nok, Kaduna state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology. According to him, the step will allow…

Zinox Technologies Ltd has dragged Premium Times to court and is asking for NGN2 billion. The company is alleging that Premium Times published a series of defamatory publications against the company, Leo Stan Ekeh, its chairman, and other officials of the company. Joined in the suit filed by the law…

The Nigerian government has signed an Executive Order compelling its agencies to buy Made-in-Nigeria goods and services – a move experts strongly believe will go a long way in boosting indigenous businesses and the local content drive in Nigeria. The order signed by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo last Thursday focuses on…

A new report has revealed that Nigeria’s top 10 banks earned N138 billion as at end 2016, up by over 26 per cent from N109.1 billion in 2015. Vanguard reported that the total industry figure is expected to be over N160 billion and over 30 per cent year-on-year increase. They recorded a significant…

Social media giant Facebook has been slammed with a USD122 million fine by the European Commission (EC) over misleading information on the company’s 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp. It would be recalled that Facebook paid USD19 billion to acquire WhatsApp claiming that it could not link the profiles of users on WhatsApp and…

Ericsson has announced plans to strengthen the global Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem by partnering with Microsoft. Under the partnership, enterprises will be able to speed up the time it takes to launch mobile network-based IoT services. The Ericsson IoT Accelerator allows enterprises to deploy their IoT solutions using Microsft…

The telecoms industry has contributed a total of NGN15 trillion to the country’s economy according to the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, revealed that in the first quarter of 2017, the industry has contributed about nine per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product…

In order to safeguard subscribers in Nigeria from the global ransomware attacks, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged operators and subscribers to deploy firewalls. This the commission said would serve as a proactive measure. Innovation Village has reported the recent global WannaCry cyber-attack and the NCC said it is raising the alert level in…