Author: Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s oldest commercial bank, First Bank of Nigeria, has announced the appointment of Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, as the new Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Bisi Onasanya who is retiring. In a statement, the group also announced that the pioneer Group CEO…

The African Union has launched a Specialised Technical Committee on Information Communications and Technology (STC-CCICT). Furthermore, the South African government has been elected to serve on the AU’s  STC-CCICT. These decisions were reached at a meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thirty-two African Union member states are gathered at the…

MTN Nigeria has apologised its teeming customers over the noticeable congestion in its service outlets across the country as a result of the ongoing SIM validation exercise. According to the network’s Corporate Services Executive, Akinwale Goodluck, the company said it was doing everything possible to ameliorate the conditions at the…

Some big names in Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem have come together to launch myshoppey.com. The platform is a partnership involving mobile payment giant Paga, digital development firm Cousant, Onyeka Akumah-led digital marketing agency Anozim, and Tunde Kehinde’s courier service ACE. Myshoppey.com offers retailers a turn-key solution across the gamut from…

At the official launch of Kenya’s Digital literacy programme brand, ICT CS Fred Matiang’i said that the government has officially released the Expression of Interest (EOI) for various devices for the Programme.The EOI was for teachers’ learning devices, learners’ digital devices and projectors and routers for use in the schools.…

South Africa’s Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Dr Siyabonga Cwele, is expected to declare open the annual Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) this morning Monday, 7 September 2015. SATNAC is an information and communications technology (ICT) conference that brings together students, academics, government representatives, local and…

A survey of prices of international grade hotels in selected major African cities, produced by hospitality research firm STR Global, ahead of the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF), taking place at the end of September, has revealed that Addis Ababa is the most expensive place for a good night’s sleep.…

We Are Monsters (WAM), the newly-founded web and mobile development agency, will be entering a partnership with tech investor Silvertree Internet Holdings to help build the next frontier of tech and digital business across Africa. We Are Monsters will be Silvertree’s preferred web and mobile development provider for their portfolio,…

The office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Nigerian President on Millennium Development Goals (OSSAP-MDGs) has launched the Nigeria Millennium Development Goals Information System (NMIS), which it said is Nigeria’s First country-wide data portal, for access to data on education, health and water. The NMIS platform captures baseline data on…

Even though everyone knows about the CcHub in Yaba Lagos and several other hubs, no one really knows who is working on agric related projects at these hubs. All we hear of are products that are helping Lagos residents to get taxi, connect, buy stuff online. Nothing groundbreaking. But in…

Twitter has announced its self-service ads platform is now available in Nigeria and other countries, this is an expansion from 33 countries to over 200 countries and territories. Now, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from Honduras to Hong Kong can more effectively reach their target audiences on Twitter in 15 languages.…

Huawei has extended its Agile Network to Nigeria to meet the needs – and boost the efficiency of businesses  in Nigeria. Recently unveiled at the Huawei Network Congress (HNC) West Africa 2015 in Lagos, the company tagged the launch “From Agility to Imagination” to introduce SDN technology that would upgrade…

Michael Pittelkow, General Manager Public Services at SAP Africa, has identified essential roles that technology can play in tackling violence in Nigeria. The expert said fighting violence becomes more effective and less expensive  with the deployment of ICT. “ICT is crucial in the fight. Technology can enable governments to respond…

Oracle Service Cloud—a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution—has received an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) under the DoD Cloud Security Model at security impact Level 4. The Oracle Service Cloud is Oracle’s premier SaaS solution providing the industry’s best-in-class customer service platform for enterprise customers. Oracle…

Nigeria’s first Virtual Visa card has been launched by Skye Bank and ChamsMobile Limited, a licensed Mobile Money Operator. Virtual Visa card is an entirely digital payment card for online and mobile use locally and internationally. The uniqueness of the card is that cardholders get a full card image (the…

Lagos-based Co-CreationHub has announced it will be hosting Nigeria’s first hyperlocal hackathon that is focused on technology solutions for a specific neighbourhood. The hackathon is tagged #BuildForMyCity. The first edition of #BuildForMyCity will focus on web and mobile solutions to address the needs of the communities in Yaba and Surulere,…

Oracle expanded its flash storage portfolio today with the announcement of an all-flash model of its Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System. Available now, the new Oracle All Flash FS1 Storage System delivers superior flash performance, capacity scaling, and flash provisioning and is designed to handle concurrent mixed workloads, such as…

Africa’s leading hotel-booking website Jovago announced the launch of a new mobile application which allows customers access their vast inventory of 25,000 hotels in Africa on and offline. The self-developed Jovago.com Hotels Booking, is a free mobile application for the customer-base, and is immediately available on the Google Play Store…

Positivo BGH an Argentina-based ICT company that set up a factory in Rwanda, has started producing laptops as part of its plans to supply digital devices to the Rwandan government. The local production is expected to ease shortage of digital devices at schools, boost basic facilities availability and improve ICT…

Tunisia’s Minister of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy, Noomen Fehri has announced plans to launch the tender for the marketing of 4G telecommunication services this month, he added that granting of licences to operators is scheduled for summer 2016. Speaking at workshop on the project entitled “Quality of service, supply…