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- 24 Mar 2026
SEDC Launches SEVCP to Expand Access to Capital for Startups
South East Development Commission (SEDC) has launched the South East Venture Capital Programme (SEVCP), to expand access to capital for startups and strengthen Nigeria’s investment landscape. The…
- 8 Apr 2021
Zinox Set to Deploy Broadband Connectivity in South East
Zinox Technologies Ltd., Nigeria’s foremost indigenous Information Technology powerhouse, is set to connect the entire South East region to the information super-highway, with the rollout of…
- 6 Mar 2015
IHS Donates Complex, Renovates Schools in South East Communities
IHS Towers, leading independent mobile telecommunications Infrastructure Company recently commissioned a bespoke complex to house the Nekede/Ihiagwa Divisional Police Command in Owerri, Imo…
- 16 Jul 2013
Rocket Internet is $Bn Company, World’s Largest Internet Incubator
Rocket Internet has announced that it has raised a total of $500 million from partners Investment AB Kinnevik and Access Industries since May 2012, representing the largest investment ever made in an…
- 15 Nov 2019
Imo State @ #StartupSouth5 Uyo, Seeks Broadband Connectivity Partnership to Deepen Digital Economy
Imo State Government is exploring possibilities to deepen broadband connectivity across the state, according to Nze Meekam Mgbenwelu, the state commissioner for Technology Development. …
- 7 Apr 2018
Telcos May Switch Off GSM Services in S/East, Others over Taxes
Telecommunications operators have warned that they will no longer engage any state government over closure of their towers over unapproved taxes or levies but rather will abandon such site, Nigeria…
- 26 Jul 2010
ICT, Other Solutions to Kidnapping
Kidnapping that started as agitation to be heard by the people of Niger Delta, has now assumed a dangerous slant. Nobody is now spared especially in the South- South and South-East parts of the…
- 17 Sept 2018
Is MTN Being Shaken Down By Buhari's Government?
Nigeria’s costly claims against the South African company raise questions about investment security in Africa’s largest economy, according to Peter Fabricius, a consultant with Institute for Security…
- 24 May 2020
Ekeh, Zinox Boss, Commends Imo Gov for Crashing Right of Way Charges
Leo Stan Ekeh, a serial digital entrepreneur and Chairman, Zinox Group has hailed Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, for crashing the Right of Way (RoW) charges in the state by over 96 per cent. The…
- 21 Nov 2016
Singapore Eyes Investment in Nigeria’s Telecom, Others
Singapore Investment Corporation (SIC) has embarked on fact finding mission to Nigeria with interest in vast areas of investment opportunities in the country, especially telecommunication, oil and…
- 5 Sept 2016
Nigeria ICT Sector Upbeat, Nets $35Bn FDI- NCC
Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman and chief executive officer, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Monday said that over $35 billion had been invested in the nation’s…
- 30 Sept 2014
Jonathan, Toure Lead Digintaries @ Nigeria’s ICT Centenary Awards
All is now set for the ICT Media Centenary conference and awards slated for Wednesday, October 8, at the Yar Adua Centre, Abuja where President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will lead a list of…
- 15 Apr 2013
MTN Group Looking at $8Bn Foreign Acquisitions
South Africa's MTN Group has revealed that it could spend up to US$8 billion on acquisitions and is currently looking for potential targets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The company is…
- 26 Sept 2018
AfDB Launches First Africa-to-Africa (A2A) Investment Report
Opportunities for investment in Africa outweigh the obstacles, according to a report by leading African companies covered in the African Development Bank’s new Africa-to-Africa (A2A) Investment…
- 1 Apr 2013
Investors Wary of Nigeria’s Hostile Business Environment- LCCI
Investors and business leaders are still wary about the state of Nigerian economy and the unfriendly business environment, according to the latest Business Confidence Index (BCI) of the Lagos Chamber…
- 20 Jul 2013
10 African Millionaires Under 40
Nothing beats being young and rich. While most people attain multi-million dollar and billion dollar fortunes in their 40s and 50s, a few savvy entrepreneurs hit the big time while in their 20s and…
- 22 Sept 2014
MasterCard Appoints Elliott, Division President in South Africa
MasterCard, a technology company in the global payments industry, has appointed Mark Elliott as Division President for South Africa. Based in Johannesburg, as disclosed on its website, MasterCard…
- 29 Jun 2016
Liquid Telecom & RBH Agree to Acquire Neotel
On Tuesday, Liquid Telecom, a privately owned Pan-African telecoms group majority owned by Econet Global, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire South African communications…
- 18 May 2015
Intercellular Plans Comeback as Telto Group Acquires Stake
Telto Group, a Middle East investment conglomerate has secured 70 percent stake in Intercellular, the foremost Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operator in the country and hope to positively turn…
- 11 May 2018
African Fintech, Agribusiness Firms Attract Interest from Investors
African private equity and venture capital deal-making in April were dominated by investments in technology companies, particularly fintech and business-to-business platforms, together with…
- 15 Apr 2016
Igbos Not Ready for Digital Wealth, Laments Ekeh, Zinox Boss
Mr. Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman of Zinox Group, one of Africa's biggest integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) conglomerates, has declared that the Igbo ethnic group is not ready…
- 26 Mar 2024
IFC Invests in New 4DX Ventures Fund to Support Tech Startups in Africa
IFC is investing $10.5 million in a new fund by 4DX Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage African technology companies across a broad set of sectors,…
- 5 Apr 2017
Kaspersky Exposes How Hackers ‘Lazarus Group’ Terrorise Banks
The results of its more-than-year-long investigation into the activity of ‘Lazarus’, a notorious hacking group allegedly responsible for the theft of 81 million dollars from the Central Bank of…
- 16 Jun 2023
Norfund Strengthens Footprint in Nigeria to Drive Sustainable Economic Growth
The Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries, Norfund, recently organized its first stakeholder event in Nigeria which hosted key players across multiple industries in the private sector to…
- 24 Jan 2018
TPG Growth to Acquire African Music Company TRACE
Growth equity investment platform TPG Growth has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in TRACE, the market leader in afro-urban music and entertainment. TPG Growth is the…
- 19 Oct 2009
P&G Appoints Kumar MD for West Africa
Management of Procter & Gamble in Nigeria has announced the appointment of Manoj Kumar managing director, West Africa to replace Stanislav Vecera who is moving to South Africa as Managing…
- 21 Feb 2018
Abia Seeks FG’s Approval For Industrial City Project
Chief Darl Uzu, Project Consultant, Enyimba Industrial City, has said that arrangements are in top gear to get the President’s approval for an Export Processing Zone licence for the project. Uzu, who…
- 30 Mar 2021
Zinox Infraco to Deploy 1,314kms of Fibre Cable to Link Southeast LGAs - Danbatta
Professor Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that Zinox Technologies Limited, the licenced infrastructure company (InfraCo) for the Southeast…
- 11 May 2023
Visa, African Women Impact Fund Initiative (AWIF) Unveil Recipients of Funding to Empower African women
Three women fund managers from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa have been selected to receive Visa’s grant funding from the African Women Impact Fund Initiative (AWIF), a collaboration between…
- 7 Jan 2014
President Jonathan to Commission Air Condition Manufacturing Plant
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday commission a multi- million naira ultra modern integrated Air conditioner and Water dispenser manufacturing plant built by White Horse General Appliances…