2015 is a year we saw some smartphone makers become really scared and changed their marketing style to reach out to more markets than their home market. It was the year some of the smartphone makers selling in Nigeria started to push better products. Some makers who never made phones…
Author: Rowland Osahon
Rowland Osahon
Straight talk. I tell it like it is. Obvious but elusive. I do love technology and marvel comics/films. No you can't see me. I am like "The Stig" in Top Gear or like Lagbaja. Now you see me, now you don't
Innovation Village recently discussed with Potential VC’s Dotun Olowoporoku who is currently working a new platform called Starta, a resource platform for African entrepreneurs. Here are excerpts from the interview: Innovation Village: In your write-up from your last visit to Lagos, you mentioned the word “Starta”. What is this? What gap is…
There was a lot of activity and interest in the African startup space this year. It would seem that people are getting more comfortable in investing in startups in Africa. Well, who wouldn’t? With the sheer size of the population, the growing ease of doing business and the potential for huge…
It was just a matter of time but it is now certain. Tesla Motors is coming to Africa. Even though it is an American company, the Chairman and CEO is South African Elon Musk. According to Htxt, the office will be run by Evan Rice, the current CEO of GreenCape,…
YouTube has just released the top 10 trending YouTube videos of 2015. YouTube looked at views, likes, shares, searches, parodies, remixes and responses to identify the 10 videos that everybody talked about in 2015. Interestingly the Number 1 position goes to Heaven King and her dance crew performing choreographed dance moves…
The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Tris [Shailene Woodley] and Four [Theo James] into a new world, far more dangerous than ever before. After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time…
The long awaited James Bond movie is out this weekend in cinemas across the globe. The title is “Spectre” and it is starring Daniel Craig as in his 4th James Bond movie. The story features James Bond’s first encounter with the global criminal organisation Spectre, marking the group’s first appearance in…
Spinlet, Nigeria’s leading music download and streaming service has unveiled its debut original web series; I Go Blow with a screening of the first three episodes at a special edition of its monthly Karaoke Night which held at the upscale restaurant, The Arena in Lagos. The launch of the web…
Why Econet Wireless left Nigeria
TECNO came to the Nigeria mobile phone scene to take care of the feature phone market while providing dual SIM and ability to add micro SD card to feature phones as the unique selling points, while making the phone very affordable. With poor mobile network and high interconnectivity rates, dual…
Nigeria has always been a lager market but stout brands have always been better at making money. A straight forward comparison shows that a 30cl stout would be sold at the same price as a 60cl lager, and that lager would be the premium one not low end. This market…
It is difficult to find a premium smart phone that doesn’t weigh heavy on the pocket. Top smart phone brands have failed time and again in striking that balance in giving customers premium smart phones that will give them all the best-of-the-best UIs, Dual cameras, apps and general audio/ visual…
The truth is, in the smart phone category, there are elder statesmen in camera ability (iPhone, Nokia or Samsung Galaxy S6) but information reaching us suggests that Tecno’s soon-to-be-released Camon C8 is going to rattle & surprise everyone. Looking at the camera specs you might not be wowed (with a…
Cheki.com.ng, Nigeria’s leading car marketplace has today announced crossing 135,000 listings since inception and over 1 million leads on cars across Nigeria. The platform which operates a zero commission marketplace provides an opportunity for Nigerians to gain access to amazing and competitive prices from both Nigeria’s leading dealers, cars from…
Getting my laundry done every week can be a big worry for me, I am a single man that works an 8-6, Monday to Friday job in Lagos. Everyday I get home as late as 10pm and much later if the Lagos traffic decides to say something about it. I have…
Last week I was working with my friend John Iseghohi on a funny graphic for a private forum we both belong to, and we did a search for “beautiful black woman wearing heels”. Usually the process flow of such a search would go from a normal google search to much more advanced…