Author: Paul Adepoju

Lagos Startup week is set to be the first of its kind in Africa, a feat organizers said takes daring vision and fearless determination to build an exceptional company that breaks the boundaries of what is thought possible. At the first Startup week in Africa, speakers will share their experiences…

Nigerian government has revealed its readiness to create 2 million jobs at the grassroots with the full implementation of Basic Registry and Information System in Nigeria (BRISIN), according to Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, minister/deputy chairman, National Planning Commission. He said with the project taking its full course, documentation centres will be…

Microsoft said it believes that technology plays crucial roles in youth employment, especially in Africa. Oluyomi Alarape, business group director, Cloud & Enterprise, Microsoft Nigeria, said this while speaking in Lagos at a Career and Employment Fair that was co-organized by Microsoft and other stakeholders. Alarape said in line with…

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University, one of the United State of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. The Minister was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters at Yale’s 2015 Commencement Ceremony in…

Global trade body Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) today announced the results of its regional board elections in Asia for the 2015/16 term which took place during the MEF Asia AGM in Bangkok prior to MEF Connects Thailand in association with Telenor on the 13th of May 2015. Senior executives from …

US President Barack Obama today got his personal Twitter account, this he said is coming 6 years later. He has subsequently posted a tweet to announce the development. Find the tweet below. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/600324682190053376

The story of iROKOtv is one that motivates startup founders in Nigeria, across Africa – even beyond. The company started by taking Nigeria’s booming movie industry popularly called Nollywood online. Several years later and millions of dollars raised and spent, the company continues to innovate, re-innovate, emerge and reemerge much…

Researchers in Benin Republic have reported that patrols of ants on cashew nut trees can roughly double the yield of the crop. The researchers compared three methods of ant-based pest control on trees with existing ant populations. On the first set, the ants were left as they were. On the…

Uber is partnering with insurance company Discovery Health to deliver flu vaccines on 22nd May. Uber will run these deliveries with Discovery Health, allowing citizens to get vaccinated at home between 10am and 4pm. Individuals can request up to five flu vaccinations to their doorstep using the Uber app for…

A merger deal between telecoms firm Telkom and IT services company Business Connexion Group (BCX) valued at R2.6bn has been approved with conditions. South Africa’s Competition Commission (CompCom) announced that it recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the merger be approved with conditions. “These are technical conditions relating to downstream…

Rwanda’s Fourth Generation Long-Term Evolution Internet (4G LTE) has won the Global Telecom Business Innovation Award for its innovative business model. The award recognised Rwanda for developing a private public-partnership business model. The awards also considered the innovative market structure through single wholesale network, and speed of rollout across the…

MTN Business has launched an Internet of things (IOT) platform to provide African enterprises with greater control and advanced management features for their connected devices and SIM cards. The platform was officially launched by Mteto Nyati, MTN Group CEO. The company also introduced a global machine-to-machine (M2M) SIM card, which…

The first meeting of a Joint initiative of the World Bank and the Planet Earth Institute, the Africa Business Champions for Science was held last month. Furthermore, a high level meeting of African Heads of State and the African Business Champions is now being planned. Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, the prominent…

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the future of Africa’s development. Yet they face unique challenges that threaten their growth. Harsh regulations, insecurity, high levels of taxation and corruption are just a few of the obstacles faced by millions of SMEs throughout the world’s second largest continent, each and every…

An Eventbrite integration has been announced. With the announcement, website owners can now display their events right on their WordPress.com sites, no matter what theme is used! Setup Go to the Sharing tab on WordPress.com, select your site, and click the Connect button next to the Eventbrite option. A window…

Smartphones manufacturer InfinixMobility has commenced an online campaign to celebrate its customers amazing life stories. With a Twitter hashtag, #Zero2Hero, customers are encouraged to share their grass-to-grace stories. According to Infinix Mobility Head of Marketing, Peter Zhou, the campaign was designed to celebrate man’s unbending resolve to excel despite great…

One of Africa’s major digital media companies, TERRAGON Group, has announced it has invested in Singapore-based Advertising Technology Company, BIZENSE PTE LTD, the company behind the innovative mobile ad platform and audience data monetisation solution, ADATRIX. The Group, in a statement, said the investment recognises the ever-increasing innovation in the digital…

West Africa’s Phase3 Telecom is advocating for early education and consistent technology training for the girl child in order to sustain them and make them active in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space. ThisDay reported the Chief Executive Officer of Phase3 Telecom, Mr. Stanley Jegede said early education, digitalized…

Lagos-based Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), Nigeria’s first social innovation centre, announced Monday that three new ventures have been admitted to its incubation programme. They will each receive seed funding ($15,000 – $25,000), mentoring, business development support and office space critical to their quest to find repeatable business models that can rapidly…

Côte d’Ivoire’s leading e-commerce giant JUMIA has said every month, it is recording over 500,000 unique visitors. The company added it is receiving about 1,000 fulfilled orders daily from its assortment of over 50,000 products in 20 categories. In 2014, JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire recorded a monthly sales growth of 14%…