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- 11 Sept 2024
#StartupSouth to Hold 9th Conference on October 3-4 in Port Harcourt
#StartupSouth, the premier Technology and Business Innovation Conference in the South-South and South-East regions of Nigeria will take place on October 3rd and 4th, 2024 in Port Harcourt. Announcing…
- 13 Oct 2021
Eden Life Closes $1.4m Seed Round to Build Out Africa’s First Home Services App
Eden Life, Africa’s first home services app for scheduling food, laundry and cleaning services, has completed a $1.4m Seed round, led by UK-based LocalGlobe, along with participation from Samurai…
- 11 Jan 2022
Afrikrea Secures $6.2M in Pre-series A Round, Rebrands to “ANKA” to Export Africa
Afrikrea, the e-commerce platform for “all things made of Africa'', has announced the successful completion of a US$6.2M pre-Series A round led by Investisseurs & Partenaires and the rebrand to…
- 10 Jul 2024
Innovate Africa Launches with $2.5M Angel Fund for Early-Stage Africa-Focused Startups
Innovate Africa, an angel investment fund that supports early-stage founders in funding life-changing ideas, taking startups from conception to product and financing innovative ventures, has launched…
- 10 Dec 2023
Nelson Mandela University Confers Honorary Doctorate on Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho
Nelson Mandela University has conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Information Technology on tech expert, Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho, in recognition of her impactful contribution to technology ecosystems…
- 26 Aug 2019
Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum #DRIF20 Opens Portal for Applications
Paradigm Initiative has opened applications for the 8th Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (#DRIF), billed to hold in April 21 - 23 2020. The Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (#DRIF) has…
- 25 Mar 2019
AfDB, Tony Elumelu Foundation Partner to Support Youth Entrepreneurs in Africa
The African Development Bank and the Tony Elumelu Foundation have signed a Letter of Intent to accelerate youth entrepreneurship across Africa. The partnership will bring about future collaboration…
- 15 Dec 2020
Op-ed: Intelligent Customer Engagement
By: Murray Gardiner, MD of Bluecode Africa The customer is always mobile. This is the adage that defines customer engagement today thanks to ubiquitous smartphone penetration and ownership,…
- 3 Sept 2018
DBI Boss Urges African Govts to Invest in ICT Skills for Economic Growth
Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, administrator, Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) has called on African governments to launch an aggressive intervention in the ICT sector by investing in digital skills to…
- 11 Apr 2025
Kaspersky Presents Insight on 14% Increase in Spyware Attacks on Businesses in Africa @ GITEX Africa
As part of the company’s participation at the GITEX Africa conference, taking place in Morocco on 14-16 April 2025, Kaspersky will address the dynamics for cyberthreats in the African region as per…
- 16 Dec 2019
AfDB Approves $5m Grant to Scale up Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AFDB) has approved a grant of $5 million to enable the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme to scale up its outreach and impact…
- 22 May 2023
Mastercard, CEBIH Partner to Drive Cybersecurity in Nigeria
Mastercard hosts a first-of-its-kind Fraud and Cyber Security Forum in Lagos, Nigeria in partnership with the Committee of E-Banking Industry Heads for Nigeria (CeBIH). The forum which aims to…
- 3 Jul 2019
Leveraging Digital Technology To Boost Nigeria’s MSMEs
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke, Small and medium scale businesses are the foundation of Nigeria’s economy. Thanks to digital technology, it is worth noting that e-commerce platforms like Jumia have so far…
- 2 Oct 2025
CAPPA Says Nigeria's Over 200m People has only 80 Heart Surgeons
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has observed that only 80 heart surgeons are serving Nigeria’s population of over 200 million. CAPPA stated this as Nigeria joined the…
- 31 May 2016
MasterCard Leads Debate On Sustainable Banking, Public-Private Partnerships
MasterCard, a technology company in the global payments industry, reaffirmed its support for the Arab banking industry’s journey towards digital transformation and sustainable banking practices with…
- 31 Jan 2020
Nigeria Monetary Policy Makers Balk at Rising Inflation
By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM, In January, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decided to hold the lending interest rate at 13.5 percent and significantly increase the Cash Reserve…
- 28 May 2021
Mba-Uzoukwu, ISPON President Decries 30% Utilisation Rate of 11 Datacenters in Nigeria
Mr. Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu, president, Institute of Software Practitioners Association of Nigeria (ISPON) has decried the under utilisation of the 11 data centres in Nigeria, putting the current…
- 9 Jun 2021
IT Teams in Nigeria Boosted Security Skills Amid Cyberattacks During COVID-19- Sophos Survey Shows
The result of recent survey by Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, tagged “The IT Security Team: 2021 and Beyond,” shows how increased security challenges during the pandemic…
- 8 Jul 2025
Nigeria Loses over N200Bn from SSB Tax Annually – CAPPA
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has condemned the loss of over N200 billion annually due to gaps in the implementation of the sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax. Mr.…
- 10 May 2024
Dr. Adesina, AfDB Group President Calls for Media Transformation to Uplift Africa’s Global Narrative
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank Group, delivered an impassioned plea for more balanced media coverage of Africa and its development, noting it was critical for…
- 1 Oct 2018
Addressing Key Dichotomy In Africa’s Telecom Market With Virtualized 2G
By Christoph Fitih Africa is taking a giant leap of ‘faith’ when it comes to mobile telecom. The region, where over 50% of the population still has no access to mobile phones, has suddenly seen a…
- 21 Sept 2009
Suburban, Tata Communications Partner on Network Support Services
Suburban West Africa, supplier of wholesale Internet, international connectivity and corporate data, has entered into partnership with Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) India, for…
- 6 Aug 2020
Nigeria, Others Experienced Largest Drops in Broadband Speeds During COVID-19 Lockdowns
Global broadband speeds plummeted after governments across the globe imposed lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19. This is according to this week’s report by Cable.co.uk, which compared average…
- 23 Mar 2024
Tony Elumelu @ 61: Marking Another Milestone
By Chidiebere Nwobodo The unit of life is time. And life is like a leaf of plain white paper you decide what to write on it. This philosophy defined Tony Elumelu’s teenage years. Tony Elumelu Then…
- 7 Feb 2015
Heritage Bank Highlights Customer Experience As Key to Retail Banking Success
Improved customer experience, technology and thorough exploitation of the emerging alternative markets in the non-oil sectors of the Nigerian economy are keys to growing emerging retail banking…
- 4 Jan 2013
Drowning in the Nigerian MobileMoney Data Quagmire
If you question data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything – Fred Menger, Chemistry Professor (1937 - ) In late 2011, Nigeria joined other progressive nations to license mobile…
- 7 Apr 2015
Hackers Hit ATMs in Lagos
A large number of Automated Teller Machines located in some posh areas of Lagos like Victoria Island, Lekki Peninsula Phase I and II, and Ikoyi have been attacked by hackers and electronic…
- 19 Feb 2020
Nigerians Pay for Calls That Did Not Connect- Lawan
Ahmad Lawan, Senate President, has charged telecommunications service providers in the country to improve their services or leave the country, saying it is wrong for Nigerians to be made to pay for…
- 20 Aug 2025
Paradigm Initiative Equips Prosecutors for the Digital Age of Crime
Paradigm Initiative is organising a capacity-building workshop to empower government prosecutors to prosecute cases committed through or facilitated by digital technologies, specifically examining…
- 6 Sept 2021
SEC Remits N1.5bn to FG, Assures of Profitability in Two Years
Following comments attributed to the Nigerian Senate that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was gradually becoming insolvent and could go bankrupt very soon, Mr. Lamido Yuguda,…