The UK Supreme Court, on Friday, February 19, ruled that Uber drivers be treated as workers, acknowledging their entitlement to work benefits such as minimum wage...
The week can best be described as the big comeback week with how Jeff Bezos reclaimed the title of world’s richest man, displacing rival and tech...
The GIG Logistics delivery app, GIGGo version 2.2.3, continues to enchant users since its first launch into the market in 2019 as a delivery console. With...
The week ended on a high note, with tension across the tech space when, on Friday, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced the henceforth banning of...
When Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Tony Elumelu, in his keynote address before world leaders, at the 2019 Invest for Growth in Africa Conference in Paris argued...
The week that ended October is yet another noteworthy week. Not necessarily because it saw the expansion of some major Nigerian startups, but for featuring wins...
Jack Patrick Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, has endorsed the #EndSARS movement championed by young Nigerians calling for the reform of the police force. The...
As business slowly returns to normal, and the economy struggles to begin its process of self-recovery after months battling with the incapacitating rage of the pandemic; the Nigerian tech ecosystem, last week, recorded major milestones as it was characterised by equity acquisition, wins, and various launches. While these are not only major pointers of...
London-based product design and collaboration platform, Gravity Sketch, has raised $3.7 million in funding to expand its portfolio. The seed round, which was led by Kindred...
Google’s video streaming site YouTube has today, Monday, announced launch of a new short video experience product, YouTube Shorts. According to reviews, the new product takes...
Following restrictions by the Trump-led government on TikTok’s operations in the US, forcing it to sell its U.S. arm of the short video venture, enterprise provider...
Recent tech drift in Nigeria speaks volumes of how indigenous Nigerian companies seem geared up to embrace the future. Around tech, we see a significant number...
The first week of September left us with striking memories to last a lifetime -being one that saw how Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief, on the international...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today: 1. Twitter closes 7000 accounts linked to conspirators Twitter has reportedly...
Nigerian automaker, JET Motor Company, Thursday said it was consolidating on its plans to dominate the mobility space with the launch of JET Mover, a new...
With so much investment diverted by industry leaders into tech lately, the race to go completely digital has become fiercely intense, with tens of thousands of...
Nigeria-based Jet Motor Company has announced an ambitious plan to radically alter the country’s mobility space with its soon-to-be launched all-electric cars. Ripples Nigeria can authoritatively...
After many years of low tech patronage, West Africa’s French speaking country, Cote D’Ivoire seems to be catching up eventually with investors’ beat, suggesting the country...
On Tuesday, February 25, 2019, Twitter’s 270 million user community welcomed a new handle, Netflix Naija. In less than 48 hours, it pulled over 17k followers...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved a total sum of $268 million funding to support tech and agricultural entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The Vice President Prof....
As part of Mastercard’s strategies to achieve its vision of enabling 30 million young people in Africa secure decent employment opportunities by 2030, the financial services...
For its 10th year edition, the South African Breweries, SAB, through its independent funding trust, the SAB Foundation, is set to reward a new cohort of...
Interswitch, the Lagos headquartered payment processing company on Thursday cemented a partnership with 170-year-old American multinational financial services corporation. Interswitch revealed the new partnership in Lagos...
Pan-Africa incubation network and entrepreneurial support group, AfriLabs, has announced Morocco as host for its 2020 edition of the annual community gathering. The group, which is...
Two Nigerian Fintech initiatives, Esusu and PaddyCover, have been selected to participate in the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) bootcamp slated for March, 2020 in...
Money lender and Fintech startup, Carbon, is on its way to become a Pan-African venture capital portfolio company as it sets to offer $100,000 in funding...
With noticeable surge in the bitcoin community, despite the Central Bank of Nigeria’s refusal to recognise cyptocurrency as a legal tender, investing in bitcoin is making...
American multinational technology company, Google, has finally shut down its free WiFi facility, globally. The internet services and product company revealed that the decision to withdraw...
The scramble for Nigeria’s Edutech space has taken new turns lately as more investors, players and crop of developers are competing to outdo each other -of...
With about 123.49 million internet users in Nigeria, according to recent figures from the Statcounter portal, the increasing trend of e-commerce activities is quite understandable. Given...
Nigeria’s healthcare and fintech company, Anyi Health, has secured N36 million from global startup accelerator, Antler, to foot the bills of stranded patients. With Anyi’s belief...
Ogunmolu Oluwaseun, a civil servant under the Lagos State Government, has been recognised by the State, and rewarded for developing an App that serves as guide...
Instant messaging platform, Whatsapp, has recorded an addition of 500 million new users in 2 years, raising its bar to 2 billion users. While Whatsapp becomes...
500 Startups, a San Francisco based seed accelerator programme company for innovative firms, has listed Nigeria’s Fintech startup Thank U Cash among other international startups to...
Five-year-old Nigerian fintech firm, Aella Credit, on Monday, February 10, announced raising a new round of funding to scale its operations and build more customer-centred financial...
Predex, a new tech solution capable of arresting suspected child molesters, has emerged winner in the recently hosted hackathon4Justice that saw, on Saturday, February 8, the...
Money lender Carbon, formerly operating as Paylater, has built its service App in a bid to extend its offering to waiting iOS users. This development is...
Come June 1, 2020, Jeff Weiner, the current CEO of popular professional networking website, LinkedIn, will vacate the position, to end an 11 year tenure of...
Jeff Bezos might be the current world’s richest man but Ph.D dropout Elon Musk seems to understand the magic of making money, better. While the Tesla...
BlackBerry Limited’s signed partners and phone makers, TCL Communication, has announced its exit from a 2016 contract that bound the Chinese electronics company (TCL) to design...
As part of TLcom’s plan for the next 18 months, the venture capital firm has announced its intent to invest $71M in 12 new start-ups from...
Lagos-based venture capitalist platform, CeedCap, has joined America’s cluster of investors’ group, the Global Startup Studio Network, GSSN, to become the first African start-up studio to...
Nothing less than 70% of Gokada riders have been laid off following the Okada ban policy by the Lagos State government. The lay off, which affected...
Nigerian-owned agric startup, FoodLocker, has emerged as one of five (5) startups accepted into the Venture Scale programme. The programme, which is a flagship course of...
Nigerian e-commerce company, Konga, is, no doubt, one of the visible players that has heavily invested to domesticate the American Amazon idea in Nigeria, building an...
African e-commerce and logistics company, Jumia, which launched operation in Lagos eight years ago has, no doubt, had an eventful past while structuring its business and...
Kenyan logistics startup, Sendy, has announced raising the sum of $20M in Series B Funding round led by foreign investors, Atlantica Ventures and Toyota Tsusho Corporation....
American multinational technology company, Google, on Tuesday, January 28, launched a developer hub in Lagos for African tech entrepreneurs. Similar to the Facebook Hub that launched...
Kenya’s ecommerce platform, Africasokoni, has taken another step towards the fulfilment of its vision as it thrusts its foot into Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria. The B2C...
On Monday, January 27, the Lagos State government, through the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, announced its intention to...
