Author: Paul Adepoju

Application has opened for the second edition of Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative. Last year, Ekovolt was among the 12 global winners. “The social enterprises we support have inspired us with practical, high-impact and scalable approaches to help close the digital divide,” said Microsoft Affordable Access Initiatives Director Paul Garnett, writing…

The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, DAWN Commission, has announced the Southwest Governance Innovation Summit 2017 with the support of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) Programme – Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL). Addressing media practitioners at a press conference to officially announce the summit, Dipo…

Small business owners that don’t sell their goods or services online can now offer an online payment option to make payments much easier for their clients. In the small business environment, cash is not king – it can be a security or a business risk. This is why fintech startup Peach…

The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) today announced the expansion of its programme to South Africa. It said it is calling South African techies and entrepreneurs to join its next dynamic cohort of trainees, with the opportunity to become world class class software developers  and receive funding for their tech…

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has reportedly pulled the plug on one of the company’s most futuristic projects – the one that aims to use drones to provide internet access particularly in developing countries in Africa and elsewhere, particularly places where it’s often expensive to build cellular towers or lay down…

A new Managing Director has been appointed for major fast moving consumer goods company, Cadbury Nigeria. He is Muhammad Amir Shamsi and his appointment follows the resignation of the outgoing MD Roy Naaman. The company revealed that Shamsi’s appointment takes effect from February 1 since Naaman’s resignation becomes effective from January 31.…

U.S-based Digital Marketing Agency, AIS Media, today announces the premiere season of The Amazon Project (TAP) – a 13-week television production aimed at selecting and investing in the brightest entrepreneurs and business ideas in Nigeria. The program will air on terrestrial and satellite television channels towards the end of the…

Netherland-based autonomous vehicle mapping company, HERE, now has a new investor – Intel – which now holds a 15% stake in the company. HERE makes digital maps and location-based services for semi- and fully autonomous vehicles and the internet of things (IoT) industry. In an announcement, Intel and HERE, said…

Latest figures released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) showed that the number of active users of telecommunications services in Nigeria rose to 153,949,450 in November 2016. The telecommunications industry regulator gave the figure in its Monthly Subscriber/Operator Data obtained, last week. Active telecommunications service customers increased by 435,343 in November over their…

Nigeria has recorded significant increase in the value of transactions through point of sales (PoS) channels, the value repoertedly increased significantly by 65 per cent to N651.37 billion between January and November 2016, compared with the N395.05 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2015, data gathered from the Nigeria Interbank…

Edusko, a Nigerian edutech startup has launched a still animated series titled “Family and School Matters” to help Nigerian parents and educators understand parenting, child education, school issues and other related matters in a fun, illustrative and educative way. Edusko connects parents and students with good and affordable schools within…

Facebook has globally launched a new Messenger camera that offers a faster and easier to use camera. It provides art and special effects to help users make conversations better than ever. Facebook said it is bringing a new experience to its messaging app. “We’ve seen that the way people are…

Fintech startup, Paystack, today announced it has closed on Seed Investment of $1.3M from international investors Tencent, Comcast Ventures and Singularity Investments, with participation from Spark, M&S Partners, Tokyo Founders Fund, Blue Rinc Capital, Pave Investments, KIBS-CFY Partners, Michael Siebel, Justin Kan, Olumide Soyombo, Leonard Stiegeler and a number of…

A new IBM report has predicted that businesses will be worst hit by ransomware demands, this is contained in IBM Security’s latest study that found that 70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to regain access to business data and systems. In comparison, over 50 percent of…

MTN Nigeria is parting ways with Amina Oyagbola, the company’s head of Human Resources and Corporate Services, after twelve years. Popularly described as the Y’ello Lady because she used to wear the company’s color, she joined the company in 2004 as Corporate Services Executive; she also served as the pioneer…

Lifestyle technology company, Garmin, has partnered with MTN to launch a range of wearable tech watches into Ghana to encourage people to live a more active lifestyle. Garmin’s range of wearable tech watches are health and fitness watches that monitor and record daily activities to motivate you towards a healthier…

Eskimi has announced that its programmatic platform has grown unique reach in African continent to 250 million per month. According to the company, the reach is achieved through direct integrations with exchanges, thousands of publishers (sites and applications) and private marketplaces. “Our current reach includes a combination of local and international…

Honorable D’Ujanga Simon, Uganda’s Minister of State for Energy, together with representatives of Access Power , EREN RE and donors yesterday celebrated the inauguration of the solar power plant in Soroti. Made up of 32,680 photovoltaic panels, the new 10 megawatt facility is the country’s first grid-connected solar plant and…

In a move that showed it is still interested in the Nigerian market in spite of fierce battle for market share by chat apps such as WhatsApp, Blackberry has made another push to endear its popular chat app, the Blackberry Messenger (BBM), to Nigerians and it has enlisted comic rapper,…

Voters in Ghana have been enjoined to monitor election results from their mobile devices via the official app, ThumpsApp which is available on the Google Play Store and iTunes. According to the commission, election results would start trickling in after the official closing of voting at 17:00GMT. Announcing this development…