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...
Popular on-demand video streaming platform, Netflix, has made provision for its video consumers in Kenya to make service payments in local currency. This development was reached...
Bolt, formerly Taxify, that first launched its cab-hailing venture in Nigeria in 2016, is taking a new offering (tricycle services) to the people of Uyo with...
More Nigerian-owned companies, especially those operating in the tech space, have been recording significant growth as they increasingly acquire other startups, fund multimillion projects, or simply...
Recently, the rivalry between 6 years old Telegram and the Mark Zuckerberg-owned Whatsapp has become intense. The heat of this competition has remarkably been instrumental to...
Boston-based BFA Global through it startup accelerator initiative, Catalyst Fund, has listed Nigeria’s Cowrywise as one of the startups making up its new cohort. The new...
Opera, in a prelude post on Tuesday, January 22, hinted the public on a new offering in the pipeline -a phone in the making to be...
Payment startup, Flutterwave, has secured a $35 million funding round as it looks to expand its coast across the continent. The funding, which comes along with...
New online learning platform, Traindemy, which relatively runs similarly to Alearnko, is currently garnering reviews from product testers and analysts as it thrusts into the digital...
Digital services provider, Google, has recently delisted one of Opera’s household Apps on its portal for breaching Google’s policy on loan provisions. Okash, a division of...
East African country, Uganda, has launched its 5th Generation network, and becomes the 3rd African nation to follow through. The launch, which was brokered by the...
Cab-hailing company, Bolt, has raised $55.84 to boost its global expansion and leverage on resources to compete favourably with contenders. The fund, which comes as a...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed that not less than a million subscribers have exited the Glo network. NCC, in its recent publication for November...
Despite how promising the Nigerian tech startup space has grown over the years, there appears a play of foreign favouritism over their local counterparts, creating an...
Chinese product, Lenovo, has finished the fourth quarter of 2019 as the number one listed PC shipped worldwide, beating America’s HP and other key PC market...
As the US-Iran dispute rages on and international communities begin taking sides, Facebook has announced its intention to yank off posts backing Iran over the US....
As more gift card trading platforms increasingly push and compete to improve services, Cardtonic, one of Nigeria’s vendors, has launched a mobile app that is thought...
As part of plans to improve the country’s broadband infrastructure within the next four years, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has released a new strategy blueprint...
Bauchi State government has announced the introduction of fingerprint devices as alternative mechanism to mark its teachers’ attendance. The announcement, which was made by the State...
KudiGo, a Ghanaian based smart retail solution company, has recently revealed plans to enter the Nigerian market, following its claimed success operating in Ghana since its...
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has reportedly “made a debut in the Television (TV) Service” with its new offering that will afford subscribers real time TV...
From being a piracy-ridden sector in the past, Nigeria’s film industry now seems to be making headway with the flourishing of movie cinemas. That Nigerians, in...
Facebook has announced plans to unveil new privacy settings and policies in order to give users more control over their data. This announcement was made as...
ARM, Nigerian Assets management firm, has partnered with fintech startup Trove, with claims to “help broaden investment opportunities for its teeming customers around the country”. The...
Callaba, a new player in the communication space, has launched operations and is currently enjoying what might pass as product testing phase. Being a new player,...
Nigeria has come a long way in the last 12 months – economically bruising some businesses, structurally implementing some unpopular reforms that cut across sectors and...
While the economy in 2019 was experiencing fluctuations in both capital and money markets, the tech space, as another robust business enclave, witnessed significant growth year...
Delta Transport Service Limited (Delta Line) on Friday, December 20, added another fleet of buses (60), representing the first phase of the 120 buses earmarked to...
The Estonian company, Bolt (formally doing business as Taxify) has Friday, December 20, announced its latest entry into two other Nigerian states as part of its...