Author: Rowland Osahon

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…

Ziing, the Savings and Investment app from Investment One, has unveiled a new improved user interface and new features. As you can see from the image above, the old app had a slider which takes you through 3 different pages. With the new app. you have all the information on…

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…

Infinix Mobility, Nigeria’s leading smartphone brand announces the launch of the hottest smartphone of them all ‘Infinix Hot 5 & Hot 5 Lite’ themed #MyMobilecinema. The new smartphone is from the Infinix Hot series product line, which has continued to deliver unbeatable success in Nigeria and other African markets. The…

…unfolding Zimbabwe Government’s reasons against Kwesé TV…but as we all know Strive Masiyiwa: ‘Nothing turns on this – through all the noise, quietly discern what really matters – Strive is bringing Kwesé TV to Zimbabwe. If Saviour Kasukwere’s tweet is anything to go by, then we too should wonder where the problem…

Following a statement by Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) that Kwesé TV is not yet licensed to operate in Zimbabwe, Kwesé TV then temporally suspended its operations till further notice. BAZ said that the license Kwesé TV used to launch its service, the one issued to Dr Dish, is not valid…

Many smartphone users have complained about airtime and mobile data disappearing from their accounts, despite not accessing the Internet or apps. Recently in South Africa, MyBroadband findings proved that indeed disappearing airtime is not an illusion, but it exists for real and MTN was found on the wrong side. MyBroadband presented its…

Chinese technology giant, Tencent has officially announced the launch of a music streaming service Joox in South Africa. South African media giant, Naspers, has a significant shareholding in Tencent hence Tencent is riding on the back of its advertising platforms e.g. DStv, to promote this new service. This will be…

A new trailer of upcoming film – Kingsman: The Golden Circle has just been published. It is the sequel to a 2014  British spy action-comedy film: Kingsman: The Secret Service “Kingsman: The Secret Service” introduced the world to Kingsman – an independent, international intelligence agency operating at the highest level of discretion, whose ultimate…

The logo for the new 9mobile (former Etisalat Nigeria) has been unofficially unveiled. I say, unofficially, because it will be officially unveiled tomorrow, Wednesday 19 July 2017. But the old Etisalat Nigeria website now redirects to 9mobile.com.ng The company has however made an official statement to the change of name:…

It would seem that Google is working on its own job site to compete with the likes of LinkedIn. Google has published a website, Google Hire, which is supposed to play in the jobs space. The service is still hidden from public view. According to an Axios report, “Google Hire…