Author: Rowland Osahon

Snapchat has launched a TikTok rival named Spotlight. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also willing to pay over $1 million every day to the most popular creators. Snap says it created Spotlight to shine a light on the most entertaining Snaps created by the Snapchat community. I believe Spotlight was…

The #EndSARS protest has thrown up a lot of issues about the use of information to manage or manipulate the minds of people. This is warfare and this is a fight for minds and the mind can only informed with news. Now whoever manages the news or information, manages the…

Recently Agritech startup, Thrive Agric, has been unable to make returns on investments made by some of its subscribers and this has made the subscribers vent their anger on social media. Launched in 2017 by Ayodeji Arikawe and Uka Eje, Thriveagric provides a platform where investors fund farms with a…

There has been a recent silent executive mass exodus in Nigeria’s leading automotive trading platform, Cars45 that seems to signify that there is a discord among the senior executives at the top and the board in the company. If it had not been for the report from Weetracker, not many…

In recent years there’s been a real push for schools to include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the curriculum. The focus on STEM has been international and students have embraced it. From classroom lessons to homeschoolers to extracurricular activities, young people have enjoyed the challenges that STEM brings.…

It seems we have not heard the last of this issue. After we heard that Trump was going ahead with the ban on TikTok in US and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella saying later that he talked with Trump about the interest in buying the company, Trump seems to have changed his…

On Friday, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) unveiled new fees for Courier and Delivery Service providers and this has been greeted with lamentations and anger on social media with the hashtag #SayNoToNipostFee According to NIPOST, the new regulations being put in place were aimed at protecting genuine courier and logistics…

Who is a social media celebrity? Here is a definition I got from Wikipedia… “An Internet celebrity (also known as a social media influencer) is a celebrity who has acquired or developed their fame and notability the Internet. The rise of social media has helped people increase their outreach to a global audience. Internet…

I must confess that I knew of Microsoft Skype before Zoom. I started using Skype before Zoom since Skype started way back in 2003 while Zoom was founded in 2011. However nowadays all I hear is Zoom and it seems that nobody thinks of Skype anymore when you want to…

After much anticipation and speculation, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has come out with a directive that bureaux de change operators in the country should not sell dollars higher than N380 to end users. This was contained in a memo signed by O.S. Nnaji, director of the apex bank’s…

Konga Travel has indirectly alerted online users that Wakanow deployed Konga Travel online ads that redirects to Wakanow site. Innovation Village went online to confirm this allegation and took a snapshot of the occurrence. Doing a Google search of Konga Travel brings up a number of search results. However, one…

Before Wednesday this week, OPay customers were only charged N10 for transfers from their OPay Wallets to bank accounts. Ordinarily in Nigeria, bank to bank transfers cost N52.5 per transaction. So OPay customers have been on subsidy street with OPay subsiding the transaction cost. Well as from this Wednesday, OPay…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) recently raised strong objections to the introduction of an automated salary payment system, the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Hmm…I wonder why. Why would staff of the “Ivory Towers”, the most educated set of people in the land object to a…

Last week, MTN Nigeria sent an sms to its customers saying that it would start charging N4 per 20 seconds on a unstructured supplementary service data (USSD)  session. There was an uproar on Social media saying that this was a punitive measure and that it would not be accepted. This caught the…

Andela is letting go of 400 junior engineers despite confirming that it will make $50 million in revenue at the end of the year. This is as reported by Techcrunch in a discussion with CEO, Jeremy Johnson. This sends conflicting signals as it would have been expected that the company…

Popular actor and songwriter, Folarin Falana a.k.a Falz a.k.a FalzTheBahdGuy has dropped a new political sound track titled “This is Nigeria” which talks about the current societal ills in the country, Nigeria. This track was inspired by Childish Gambino’s “This is America.” Childish Gambino (real name Danny Glover) dropped “This…

Safaricom is dominant on both voice and mobile money, holding more than 80 per cent of the market share in both market segments. The telco is also dominant in terms of network infrastructure, owning the bulk of cellphone towers in marginal and low populated areas. However, despite receiving accusations in…

You might have noticed that the award-winning app called MyAds seems to be no more and in its place is a new solution called Thank U! Innovation Village was curious and we decided to visit the company behind the solutions, Sidon Media and we were told there has been a…

As I watched him the event of his Facebook page, I beamed with joy and love that Wizkid, a Nigerian, was able to fill Royal Albert Hall. You may think this is nothing but he has joined the league of great musicians like The Beatles, Elton John and even Adele.…

It is obvious to many that as the traditional revenue streams such as voice and sms are drying up with the advent of messaging apps like Whatsapp, Skype, Facebook Messenger, e.t.c. Africa is not left out in this development. This is why some of the wise telcos have changed their…