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| Aug 13, 2025 | Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) announces keynote speakers for 2025 conference in Cape Town | BADEA, OCP Africa, DCO, City of Cape Town, UNDP and others to headline AWIEF’s 11th flagship event.
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced a powerful line-up of headline and international speakers for i... |
| Mar 29, 2025 | Laerryblue Media Unveils Pressdia for Strategic Press Distribution | In a bold move that reshapes how African stories are told, Laerryblue Media has officially launched Pressdia By Laerryblue Media, a press release distribution platform built to give African brands the exposure they deserve both at home and ... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | ‘Did my boy dirty’: Fans react to Tyla’s Kelvin Momo feature | Kelvin Momo and Tyla have disappointed fans with their super short intro. Images via Instagram: @tylaaaa/@kelvinmomo
The day many Tyla Seethal fans have been waiting for has finally arrived — her first album drop. The South African-born sin... |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Ventures Africa’s 20 Women of Impact 2023 | African women have emerged as dynamic forces driving transformative change across various sectors, showcasing remarkable resilience, leadership, and innovation on the continent and beyond. In fostering community, these women serve as pillar... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Who is leading innovation in Africa’s entertainment scene? | The African entertainment scene is rapidly evolving, thanks to a number of innovative platforms that are changing the way people consume and create content. The most popular way we’ve seen this happen is the takeover of streaming services i... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Nigerians, Beware of Facebook Account Offering to Double Your Money in the Name of Popular Investment App | IN SHORT: A Facebook page is offering investment opportunities in the name of a popular investment app in Nigeria. But beware: The company says it is not affiliated with the scheme.
"Good evening everyone I thank God almighty for makin... |
| May 19, 2023 | Nigerian youths and Afrobeats are at the forefront of cultural globalisation ahead of 2050. | In the past couple of years, young Nigerians have gained significant recognition on the global stage through their impact on various aspects of the global economy. Nigerian youths- home and abroad- have made significant contributions to sci... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | MAD SOLUTIONS: CONTRIBUTING TO THE GROWTH OF DIGITAL MUSIC FROM AFRICA TO THE WORLD | MAD Solutions, an initialism of Measurable Accurate Digital Solutions, is a new-age music distribution company founded by Bugwu Aneto-Okeke. Since its launch in 2017, the pioneering digital music company has served as an alternative to trad... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Meet Ruth Iselema, the Bitmama of the African blockchain space | Share this article:
In 2016, after Ruth Iselema got scammed of ₦250,000 (~ $1200 at the time) trying to sell bitcoin, she saw an opportunity to solve a problem. At the time, there were hardly any structured crypto-trading platforms in Afric... |
| Jun 29, 2020 | A tech lifeline for events in Africa’s $31 billion fashion industry | Model castings, backstage rush, lights, cameras, runway, the US$31 billion African fashion industry (PDF) is always agog almost all year round with vibrant fashion events, big and small.
This year has been unprecedented for physical activit... |
| Apr 3, 2019 | What Happens Next? A Recap of the Tech Women Lagos Portrait Series and Exhibition | The technology industry wasn’t always a boys’ club. Sub-sectors like software programming were akin to what nursing is today; very female-centric. How gender is now distributed in the technology sector belies this history. Nonetheless, ther... |
| Feb 25, 2019 | Who is Marek Zmysłowski, the Polish man Nigerian investors are after? | UPDATE (18 October 2019): Marek Zmyslowski has released a tell-all book after Interpol in May 2019 took down the Red Notice it issued in January 2018 ordering his extradition to Nigeria (see this story) — Ed
He’s been accused by his Nigeri... |
| Feb 25, 2019 | Who is Marek Zmysłowski, the Polish man Nigerian investors are after? | UPDATE (18 October 2019): Marek Zmyslowski has released a tell-all book after Interpol in May 2019 took down the Red Notice it issued in January 2018 ordering his extradition to Nigeria (see this story) — Ed
He’s been accused by his Nigeria... |
| Jul 19, 2018 | Why ‘Okada-On-Demand’ Has The Best Chance Of Disrupting Transportation In Nigeria | From humble roots in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria in the 70s (when they were first known as “Inaga”) to Edo State in the 80s when their popularity exploded, motorcycle taxis or Okada’s, as they are now known, have grown to become one of the ... |
| Feb 21, 2018 | How to make Influencer Marketing work for you in Nigeria | Share this article:
Influencer Marketing is the new rave in Nigeria.
Once upon a time, celebrities were the only true influencers acknowledged. If you wanted a personal brand to promote a product or business to consumers you had to engage c... |
| Dec 15, 2017 | Social Media Roundup: When Drake met Tekno | Share this article:
This week, Nigerian musician, Tekno posted a photo he took with Drake on Instagram hinting at the beginning of a collaboration.
Drake also posted a picture.
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As G-Worldwide is yet to issue a reply to these s... |
| Sep 15, 2017 | Social Media Roundup: Freedom of association in tech | Share this article:
This week, a tech event banner was posted on Facebook.
Even though the event is “not exclusive to only muslims and everybody is welcome,” many people did not like the idea of mixing tech with religion. And they voiced th... |
| Feb 11, 2017 | Watch Common and The Roots’ Tariq Freestyle Battle on ‘Fallon’ | Common is a busy man right now. His latest album, Black America Again, dropped back in November, and he's spent the time since seeing out Barack Obama's White House term in the Oval Office and promoting the inevitably brilliant ne... |
| Dec 12, 2016 | Why technology is not the immediate solution to Nigeria’s corruption problem | Share this article:
“I try to always introspect before I put pieces here on Facebook recently. Why? Because I am a humbled man. Humbled because the Buhari I sold to you is not the one in charge.”
The short excerpt above is from a Facebook p... |
| Nov 24, 2016 | The untold story of the Uber Abuja Strike and why there will be many more | Share this article:
A few weeks ago, Uber Abuja partners and drivers called off a two-day strike that had paralyzed services of the taxi company in the capital city.
Suggested read; What you need to know about the Uber Abuja strike
The canc... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | Uber drivers in Lagos are currently protesting reduced earnings | Source: @Nwankpa_A via twitter
It seems Uber just cannot catch a break in Nigeria. It’s been brought to our attention that Uber drivers in Lagos are currently protesting in Ikoyi.
Lagos Uber drivers protesting in Ikoyi. "I was supposed... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | MTN Project Fame and social media, a very beneficial relationship | Share this article:
I was scrolling through my news feed on Facebook, with a mildly bored expression on my face, suddenly my eyes narrowed in and I think my mouth was open. I had just seen a Facebook ad for Elizabeth, one of the contestants... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Women make better entrepreneurs than men: An anecdotal evidence | Share this article:
“If you educate a man you educate an individual, however, if you educate a woman you educate a whole family”- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
The former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, recently churned out some inter... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | What the FinTech landscape in Nigeria looks like right now | Share this article:
Over the years, FinTech has grown beyond money transfer platforms. It has expanded to include many forms of technological innovation in the financial sector. FinTech innovations have changed the way we do business and se... |
| Mar 14, 2016 | African startups and how they should react to competition | As soon as a startup pops up on the block, five more versions show up soon enough, taking slices of the market share, and if you did not anticipate competition from the beginning it can be pretty difficult to correct your strategy in light ... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | There is a Nigerian Astronaut in space and he needs your help | Share this article:
Nigerian Twitter is one of the most fun places to be on earth.You cannot go through your timeline and keep a straight face. Naija people would not let you keep a poker face required to scroll through the social web detac... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Nigerian Startups Need To Stop Copying Europe and The US – Marek Zmyslowski | Share this article:
Marek Zmyslowski is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Jovago.com, an online hotels booking service, backed by Rocket Internet, MTN and Millicom. In a recent chat with Techpoint, he had a lot of interesting things to sh... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Mark Essien, Abiola Olaniran and Iyin Aboyeji make the Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Africa | Share this article:
Last Month, Mfonobong Nsehe called on Africans to help compile the list of Africa’s brightest and most ambitious young entrepreneurs for the Forbes’ 30 Enterpreneurs Under 30 in Africa list.
He received about 800 nominat... |
| Jan 23, 2014 | What Is A Nigerian Startup? | Yesterday I wrote about Minku, a fashion startup that started accepting Bitcoin recently. Nigerian founder. A rather distasteful and inaccurate comment by an anonymous troll goon took issue with my description of Minku as a Nigerian startup... |
| Dec 16, 2012 | Meet The Brain Behind One Of Nigeria’s Most Innovative Fashion Brands | Passion to fashion. That phrase best describes Lisa Folawiyo, a Nigerian law school graduate turn fashionpreneur who took Africa’s fashion industry by storm by turning a hobby into a global enterprise while revolutionising the art of wearin... |
| Sep 21, 2012 | Interview With Ruth Obih, CEO Of Leading Nigerian Real Estate Consultants, 3INVEST | VENTURES AFRICA – As the world focuses on Africa’s fast growing economies, Nigeria, the continent’s second-biggest economy and one of the fastest growing economies in the world, is poised for massive development in all sectors as an influx ... |
