| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.12.2025 | Africa: Offline and Silenced - Africa's Quiet Rise of Internet Repression | Africa was hit by a record number of digital shutdowns in 2025 that stifled opposition and undermined democracy.
On 29 October 2025, election day, a nationwide internet outage cut online communication across Tanzania, raising concerns about... |
| 14.12.2025 | Nigeria Can No Longer Pretend Online Violence Against Women Is Invisible | Our institutions pretend they cannot see what is happening. But the truth is starker: they have chosen not to look.
Globally, 38 per cent of women say they have experienced online abuse, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Nigeria... |
| 05.06.2025 | No Nigerian YouTuber can replicate MrBeast’s success. Here’s why | With 400 million subscribers, American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, is the highest-paid in the world. His YouTube channel, built on viral stunts and hair-raising challenge videos, has turned millions of views into a... |
| 29.03.2025 | 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 ... |
| 13.06.2024 | Live Casino Tournaments: Competing for Big Prizes | Live casino tournaments have become a major innovation in the world of online gambling as players get a chance to play for real money and win big prizes and bonuses. These events are based on the combination of live dealer games, that is th... |
| 24.10.2023 | After success with Gangs of Lagos and Brotherhood, Capital Films launches ₦500 million fund | Capital Film Productions, a film financing firm co-founded by a former tech professional, has launched a new fund to invest in Nollywood movies.
Capital Film Productions, a film financing firm founded by Adim Isiakpona, a former Google empl... |
| 09.08.2023 | The Subsidy Removal and Nigerian Youth. | The inauguration of Nigeria’s emerging President was met with a truckload of controversy. The election triggered numerous Twitter trends, and hashtags, as well as political pundits who had more than 2 cents about the electoral process and o... |
| 28.07.2023 | Who are the beneficiaries and losers of CBN’s new 18.75% interest rate hike? | Nearly 60 days have passed since Bola Ahmed Tinubu became president, and it appears that many Nigerians are grappling with considerable challenges. Throughout his political campaign, Tinubu and his APC party members played to the sentiment ... |
| 19.05.2023 | SLK’s Teetotaler: Laughing all the way to Netflix | “Laughter is the best medicine,” they say, and it was with great anticipation that I entered the bustling film house cinema in Twin Waters Lagos to watch the premiere of Teetotaler, a comedy special just acquired by the global streaming gia... |
| 04.04.2023 | Shuttlers raises $4M to fuel its shared mobility solution across Nigeria | |
| 04.04.2023 | Shuttlers raises $4M to fuel its shared mobility solution across Nigeria | Shuttlers, a Nigerian shared mobility company that allows individual and corporate passengers to take rides on multiple bus routes via an app, has raised $4 million in a new funding round led by Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV), a Pan-Af... |
| 06.09.2022 | PlayStation 5 Guide: Are You Having Troubles With Error Codes? Here's an Easy Guide to Follow | John Lopez, Tech Times 06 September 2022, 10:09 am
The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is the ninth generation home video game console by Sony Interactive Entertainment. A week after its release in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and Sout... |
| 26.08.2022 | Kevin Hart Launches Vegan Fast-Food Restaurant Near LAX | Comedian Kevin Hart poses with the spicy chik'n meal from his new restaurant, Hart House. The all ... [+] plant-based fast-food restaurant is located in Westchester, CA, just a mile from Los Angeles International Airport. Hart House |
| 16.11.2021 | Nigerian shared mobility startup Shuttlers raises $1.6M, plans pan-African expansion | Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline.
With millions of Nigerians using danfo minibuses and okadas to commute to their various work... |
| 16.11.2021 | Nigerian shared mobility startup Shuttlers raises $1.6M, plans pan-African expansion | Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. |
| 20.10.2021 | A year after the #EndSARS protests, what has changed? | On a sunny Tuesday afternoon on October 13, 2020, Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, came out to address protesters in front of his office at Alausa, Ikeja. The protesters had been hanging around the governor’s office for almost a we... |
| 30.09.2021 | Investing In Africa? Invest In Women | Madji Sock, co-Founder and former President of WIC Capital. Managing Partner of DALBERG Senegal Thiaba Camara Sy, |
| 04.05.2021 | Microtraction’s novel approach to early-stage investments in Africa is paying off | From a fresh and relatable perspective, the Ask an Investor series focuses on conversations with investors in Africa – investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, private equities, venture capitalists and every other class of investors, expla... |
| 13.04.2021 | Twitter chooses Ghana, Appzone raises $10m, Airtel Kenya 30% stake | Share this article:
Good day,
Oluwanifemi and Emmanuel here. Today we are discussing:
Twitter’s Africa office
Nigerian fintech, Appzone’s $10m Series A raise
Airtel to sell a 30% stake in its Kenya business Twitter chooses Ghana
Twitter exe... |
| 23.02.2021 | Google launches second News Initiative Innovation Challenge | Global and renowned tech giant Google has announced the launch of its second Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge (GNI) in Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey.
The initiative aims to recognise new and innovative projects that increas... |
| 23.02.2021 | Google launches second News Initiative Innovation Challenge | Global and renowned tech giant Google has announced the launch of its second Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge (GNI) in Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey.
The initiative aims to recognise new and innovative projects that increa... |
| 02.12.2020 | FK Abudu’s aspirations transcend her Twitter influence | My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa.
Feyikemi Abudu isn’t a full-time influencer on Twitter but she did as much as anyone t... |
| 26.11.2020 | The BackEnd: Direct debits that “bounce” are a problem, but what’s a fair penalty? | The BackEnd explores the product development process in African tech. We take you into the minds of those who conceived, designed and built the product; highlighting product uniqueness, user behaviour assumptions and challenges during the p... |
| 24.11.2020 | Why ASUU, Nigeria’s union of university academic staff, is against government automated payment system | Share this article:
The Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) department was created in 2007 in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF). And in 2016, the Federal Government of Nigeria revealed its... |
| 13.08.2020 | The harmful consumer bugs in Lagos state’s new taxi regime | As I take my seat in this silver-coloured Toyota Corolla on Wednesday morning and settle into a conversation with its driver, I realise from a quick scan of the dashboard that it is not a new car.
Which means by August 20 – if the new Lagos... |
| 02.08.2020 | How To Start A VC: Interview With Maya Horgan Famodu, Founder, Ingressive Capital | “I have an obligation to use my access to empower the next generation of |
| 14.06.2020 | Negotiating With Jihadists in the Sahel and Nigeria | Editor’s Note: West Africa is one of the most important jihadist hotspots, but it gets far less attention in the United States than in other areas, in part because the U.S. military role there is limited at best. France, however, is deeply ... |
| 10.06.2020 | My Life in Tech: From slum to Country Manager; Jane Egerton-Idehen’s inspirational story | My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa.
Tech executive, author, speaker, there are many ways to describe Jane Egerton-Idehen, ... |
| 28.05.2020 | Nigerian reality TV show, BBNaija goes virtual for Season 5 auditions | Share this article:
Earlier in May, popular Nigerian reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) announced the opening for video submissions for the upcoming season of the show.
Mic check, mic check 🎤
Do you have what it takes to be a #BBNaij... |
| 04.05.2020 | GE stock tanks 5% after aviation unit announces it will cut 13,000 jobs this year as coronavirus halts air travel | General Electric announced it would slash around 13,000 jobs in its aviation division this year to tackle with reduced demand resulting from coronavirus.
Shares in the company dropped around 5% in morning trade, hitting an intraday low of $... |
| 27.04.2020 | Why digital media’s over-reliance on advertising might prove costly | Share this article:
It’s already an established fact that the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the lives of many around the world. From the look of things, it might stay that way for the foreseeable future as some experts say the pandemic... |
| 22.04.2020 | What happens when we can no longer remain on lockdown? | A contact tracing app being developed for front liners and essential service workers in Lagos might become a useful tool in monitoring the coronavirus spread if strict movement restrictions are lifted.
A mobile app called Safety Visa is cur... |
| 18.03.2020 | My Life in Tech: Anu Adasolum is living her dream of powering Africa | In a pseudo-futuristic short film titled The Conversation, a young Anu Adasolum, Chief Operating Officer, Rensource, wants nothing more but to change the power situation in Nigeria. As a girl who loved reading and doing take-home assignment... |
| 04.03.2020 | My Life in Tech: Tomilola Adejana’s Bankly is protecting thrifters from fraud | My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. For Women’s Month, we are profiling some of Africa’s female founders, C-suite executiv... |
| 19.02.2020 | The future of Nigeria’s finance is edging towards decentralisation | Share this article:
Many of this generation were born at a time when banking meant waking up early enough to walk into a bank branch to access finance-related services.
Those were the analogue days when one needed to be a salary earner in o... |
| 10.02.2020 | The legal loophole that could save ride-hailing platforms — MAX, Gokada, ORide, and keke in Lagos | Share this article:
The enforcement of the okada ban in February 2020 has been trailed by a lot of reactions and counterreactions.
The streets have been filled with protests; commuters are experiencing difficulties, and there have been repo... |
| 11.01.2020 | The disadvantages of a Nigerian passport for the technology ecosystem | With a Nigerian passport, you can travel to about 46 countries either visa-free or with a visa on arrival. Those countries are Iran, Lebanon, three south-east Asian countries, a few Oceania/Caribbean islands and twenty-eight African countri... |
| 18.12.2019 | Rensource, renewable energy startup, raises $20m to power more Nigerian SMEs | Renewable energy startup, Rensource, has completed a $20m funding round to boost its capacity to provide technology-enabled power solutions in Nigeria.
Rensource builds and operates off-grid solar technologies for marketplaces, serving over... |
| 22.11.2019 | Social Media Roundup: African Giant | Share this article:
In September, following Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationales in South Africa, Nigerian music star Burna Boy threatened to boycott the country.
About two months after his threat, Burna boy was set ... |
| 15.11.2019 | The difficult business of music streaming in Nigeria | In April, Groove Platforms launched its music streaming app, UduX. It is the latest in a string of attempts by Nigerian companies to compete in the music streaming space.
UduX teases a 14-day trial period after which subscription costs N500... |
| 14.10.2019 | How a proposed bill could increase internet costs in Nigeria | Nigerians face the possibility of a new tax on electronic communications which is already being levied in Ghana. The Communications Service Tax bill was championed by the former communications minister Adebayo Shittu and thrown out by the N... |
| 30.09.2019 | Nigerian Tech Leaders Fight Back Against Police Extortion of Tech Workers | Share this:
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| 20.09.2019 | From loans to digital banking: FairMoney eyes growth in Nigeria | Microlending platform FairMoney offers small loans of between N1,500 – N150,000 to Nigerian with maturities of 1-3 months. To determine who is fit to receive a loan or not, an algorithm allows the company evaluate an individual’s creditwort... |
| 10.09.2019 | Nigeria SEC Calls for Regulatory Framework for Crypto and Blockchain | Nigeria‘s government is taking steps to grow its fintech capacity and equally improve the financial inclusion in her country while it continues to align with global practices and protect investors’ funds.
The Nigeria Security and Exchange C... |
| 03.09.2019 | Counting the cost as Nigerian fraud goes global | “I don suffer no be small, upon say I get sense,
Poverty no good at all ooo, Nayin make I join this business.
419 no be thief,
It’s just a game, everybody dey play am,
If anybody fall mugu, ah,
my brother, I go chop am.
National Airport, na... |
| 07.08.2019 | Random or not so random suspensions are currently ongoing on Twitter | Share this article:
UPDATE [August 8, 2019]: Your Twitter account may have been suspended by accident
Since yesterday, August 6, 2019, in a manner akin to the probability random sampling of Marvel’s Thanos, Twitter has been suspending quite... |
| 31.07.2019 | MTN granted operating license to launch financial service in Nigeria | A subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, Yello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), has secured a licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria to operate financial services in the country.
Created in June 2018, YDFS is the company’s main pivot into the finan... |
| 25.07.2019 | Africa’s ride-hail markets are hot spots for startups and VC | When it comes to VC, vehicles, and startups, Africa’s ride-hail markets are becoming a multi-wheeled and global affair.
The big players such as Uber and Bolt are competing in Kampala and Nairobi—where in addition to car-service—they offer r... |
| 02.07.2019 | Questions about MTN Nigeria’s listing and impending Airtel IPO on the local exchange | Share this article:
After MTN got listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, there seems to be a flurry of activity on the part of another mobile operator, Airtel Nigeria to do the same.
As it is, Airtel Nigeria will be launching its initial pu... |
| 24.06.2019 | Startup Acquisitions Continue to Grow Big in Africa. What Does this Mean for VCs and Startups? | The African startup ecosystem continues to attract a lot of venture capitalist attention. Yet the continent has not produced a lot of exits to justify. However, a recent trend in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in different parts of Afr... |
| 12.06.2019 | We hosted the largest tech conference in West Africa; we couldn’t have done it without you | Share this article:
On the 1st of June 2019, over 3000 technology enthusiasts, innovators, entrepreneurs and experts convened at the Pistis Conference Centre Lagos, Nigeria to make history. This was no ordinary technology conference. This w... |
| 24.05.2019 | The Ride-hailing Startups That Are Not Uber Or Lyft | 32 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
While the category “ride-hailing startup” often conjures up the Big Two (Uber and Lyft) or woes about scooters, a recent deep dive in Crunchbase data revealed other players in the on-demand economy ... |
| 24.05.2019 | The Ride-hailing Startups That Are Not Uber Or Lyft | 31 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
While the category “ride-hailing startup” often conjures up the Big Two (Uber and Lyft) or woes about scooters, a recent deep dive in Crunchbase data revealed other players in the on-demand economy ... |
| 01.05.2019 | Boomplay’s dominance and the music streaming market in Africa | Share this article:
Earlier in April, music streaming platform Boomplay raised a $20 million Series A round led by Maison Capital and Seas Capital to expand across Africa.
Boomplay, currently the fastest rising music streaming service in Af... |
| 16.04.2019 | What African Nations Can Learn from Rwanda’s Growth as an Innovation Hub | Rwanda is quickly becoming an innovator’s paradise. Technology companies and manufacturers from within and outside the continent are moving to the country to either set-up innovation hubs or manufacturing plants.
Last year Andela, which ori... |
| 15.02.2019 | Twitter apparently suspended some Nigerian ‘influencers’ in preparation for Nigeria’s general elections | Share this article:
Last night, just before midnight, news broke of the suspension of at least 12 well-followed Nigerian Twitter users, popular referred to as influencers.
@ani_nomso: Gone @Rouvafe:Gone @HEAD_MASTA: Gone @LazyWrita: Gone @J... |
| 15.02.2019 | Cybersecurity Plays Catch-up as Tech Expands to New Sectors | There’s an email in my Yahoo inbox from a man named John. John, who has addressed me as a “dear friend”, wants me to fill out an attached questionnaire because he is “working on a Renewable Energies Project with a foreign based business ass... |
| 12.02.2019 | Online sports betting company, Bet9ja apparently paid ₦1.08bn to sponsor Big Brother Naija 2019 | Share this article:
Last week, auditions were held nationwide for the 2019 Big Brother Naija reality TV show and with it emerged a new and surprise sponsor; KC Gaming, popularly referred to as Bet9ja.
At the #BBNaija auditions? Tag us in yo... |
| 11.02.2019 | Thank you for helping Techpoint host the largest startup and SME event in West Africa | Share this article:
On the 26th of January, 2019 at the Landmark Event Centre, Techpoint made history by convening over 5000 startup founders, business owners, seasoned entrepreneurs, corporates and tech enthusiasts at the first West Africa... |
| 09.02.2019 | These are the top 25 best hotels in Africa | www.bookings.com
Every year, TripAdvisor shares its Travellers' Choice awards for hotels in Africa and the world.This year's list features the best 25 hotels in South Africa, Tanzania, Moroccco exluding Nigeria.The number one slot goes to C... |
| 24.01.2019 | Why you were led to believe Tesla is coming to Nigeria | Share this article:
More than a week ago, multiple reports emerged that Tesla, American automotive and energy company was entering the Nigerian market with its Power Wall.
Launched in 2015 by the Tesla Inc., the Tesla Powerwall and accompan... |
| 08.01.2019 | Naspers shuts down yet another venture in Nigeria | Share this article:
By March 2019, Naspers will be shutting down yet another one of its companies in Nigeria, Careers24 Nigeria, which has been operating in the job-listing market since 2014.
Careers24 operates under one of Naspers’ subsidi... |
| 08.01.2019 | Teleology pulls out of 9mobile barely two months after acquisition | Share this article:
According to an exclusive report by SaharaReporters, Teleology Holdings Limited has pulled out of 9mobile after only two months of taking over.
9mobile, formerly Etisalat Nigeria, was put up for sale following a default ... |
| 15.12.2018 | The Troubling Afterlife Of Electrical And Electronic Equipment | As far as I can recall, I’ve owned seven phones in the last nine years, four of which forcefully ended up with people who needed them more than I did. Out of the remaining three, I recall handing one down to a younger sibling and disposing ... |
| 25.09.2018 | 10 massive projects the Chinese are funding in Africa - including railways and a brand-new city
1. Railways projects
2. AU Headquarters
3. ECOWAS Headquarters
4. Ghana's Bauxite Exploration
5. An... | African Union (AU) headquarters. (globalconstructionreview.)
China is Africa’s biggest and strongest ally and in recent years has pumped millions of dollars into the continent.
At the close of the 2018 China-Africa Forum for Cooperation (FO... |
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| 13.09.2018 | Trackers, Guts And Money: Inside The Life Of A Nigerian Car Smuggler | Photo: Luster Kaboom
It’s a dark, moonless night on the sandy stretch of land in the Benin republic end of the Nigeria-Benin border at Seme, Badagry. The skies are cloudier than the previous night and the stars are barely visible. It may ev... |
| 30.08.2018 | 2 years after Mark Zuckerberg came to Nigeria … | Share this article:
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg came to Nigeria? It was a remarkable day in the history of the Nigerian tech community. It was the day Silicon Valley came to Nigeria, and there was hardly any Nigerian with Internet access ... |
| 15.08.2018 | The Big 5 Daily: First Co-Working Space Launched in Ogun State, Nigeria, Microsoft’s latest mobile Now in Kenya, And Others | You know how we do this, Tech Gist Africa will bring you the biggest news of the day. Let’s dive in right now.
In order to help bridge the gap for those in the regions where data is prohibitively expensive or slow, Twitter has released its ... |
| 26.07.2018 | Fantastic Francophone African Startups And Where To Find Them | From Tunisia to Cameroon, startups in Africa’s french speaking region have already raised more than $6 million within the last one year. CoinAfrique and Oolu are leading the pack with each pocketing more than $3 million in funding. Founders... |
| 05.07.2018 | Facebook Wants Nigerian Creators And It’s Partnering With Afrinolly To Get Them | Nigeria’s creative industry is one of the most disruptive forces coming out of the so-called “Giant of Africa” these days. It generated a N239 billion contribution to Nigeria’s GDP in 2016, MarkAngel Comedy became the first African YouTube ... |
| 04.07.2018 | A Cursory Look At Music Tech In South Africa | New age global stars like Black Coffee, Mafikizolo, Micasa, AKA and Cassper Nyovest highlight the long, intrinsic relationship South Africans have had with music. From the better-forgotten Apartheid days of the rainbow nations’ singing prot... |
| 08.06.2018 | Linda Ikeji launches her online streaming service, LITV | Share this article:
Popular blogger Linda Ikeji is taking her TV arm, Linda Ikeji TV (LITV) beyond YouTube. She is set to take on the likes of iROKOtv with the launch of an online streaming service with the same name.
Linda Ikeji TV debuts ... |
| 05.06.2018 | Why Is Hardware Hard In Nigeria? | Every product you use most likely took years (or at least months) of design, prototyping and iteration before it was ready for you to purchase. That’s just the nature of the hardware business. To achieve a final product, a lot of creativity... |
| 28.05.2018 | Africa’s Most Tech-Friendly Governments | We know that Africa is a great, big continent filled with abundant resources, great people and the rest of that gist. We also know that African governments, through the eyes of the tech ecosystem – if you will, can be a bit obtuse at times.... |
| 08.05.2018 | 4 reasons why Nigerian dating sites fail to scale | Share this article:
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs suggests that love is a fundamental human need. In many cases, finding love in the shallow pool of our social circles could be almost impossible. And so, we are more inclined to switch to less... |
| 04.05.2018 | Social Media Roundup: We all deserve some Assurance | Share this article:
For many weeks now, popular Nigerian musician Davido has been showing off his girlfriend Chioma. He took it up a notch this week when Chioma celebrated her 23rd birthday on May 1. As a birthday gift to her, Davido releas... |
| 03.05.2018 | Solar energy is about to get even more expensive in Nigeria | Share this article:
In February and March this year, importers of solar panels suddenly discovered a new anomaly; the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) was forcing them to pay between 5% and 10% import duty on solar panels.
This was a new dev... |
| 01.05.2018 | You’re probably spending too much time in your email inbox | Share this article:
Imagine going to sleep and being disturbed every few seconds. You never really get back into that deep sleep and you end up not well rested. This is how Adam Alter, a New York University professor and author describes ch... |
| 30.04.2018 | 3 recommendations for policy makers as Nigeria moves to regulate blockchain technology | Share this article:
Whilst at a meeting, during the early hours of last Thursday, I read reports that members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigerian Deposit Insurance Commission... |
| 06.04.2018 | Social Media Roundup: Will the real Starboy please stand up? | Share this article:
This week, popular Ethiopian-Canadian musician, The Weeknd filed a lawsuit against Eymun Talasazan, a realtor who has been trying to trademark the “Starboy” name.
The Weeknd is reportedly fighting for the trademark to &q... |
| 30.03.2018 | Global LinkUP: Bitcoin prices are still falling | Share this article:
The Global Linkup is a summary roundup of important tech news curated from around the world.
On this week’s edition of the global news round up, there are indications that Cambridge Analytica is unrepentant. In Europe, B... |
| 16.03.2018 | Global LinkUP: The powerful women of cryptocurrency | Share this article:
On this week’s global news roundup, cryptocurrencies are doing an uncertain dance, Australia is running scared of China and a Silicon Valley startup wants to backup your brain in the cloud. Also, there are women in crypt... |
| 11.03.2018 | Africa Roundup: Uber says it’s staying, Konga could be epic startup fail | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| 02.03.2018 | Global LinkUP; Apple confirms iCloud actually uses Google Cloud | Share this article:
This week, Amazon paid $1 billion dollars for a startup, Apple iCloud has some amazing revelation and LinkedIn has major competition from the big boys. Read on. The startup Amazon paid $1 billion for
On Tuesday Reuters r... |
| 05.02.2018 | Africa Roundup: Partech Ventures launches $70M fund, TPG Growth acquires TRACE, Rensource raises $3.5M | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| 10.01.2018 | Mediaworks: Home of creatives and incubation centre for young artistes in Port Harcourt | Share this article:
Although Port Harcourt lives and breathes oil, creativity isn’t lacking in the city. Mediaworks is positioning itself as the creative hub for many young talents (artistes, creatives, designers, just name it ) in the city... |
| 05.01.2018 | Global LinkUP: Apple sued for $999 billion payout | Share this article:
It’s the first week of a new year and Mark Zuckerberg is making resolutions like everyone. In the news this week, there’s a new deadly computer bug that isn’t exactly a bug and iPhone user have dragged Apple to court. Th... |
| 13.12.2017 | Comedy skits and music videos kept Nigerians on YouTube in 2017 | Share this article:
As the year 2017 draws to a close, we have to admit that it has been an eventful one for us as Nigerians. It was the year our president worked remotely from the United Kingdom for 103 days and Imo State got a Commissione... |
| 11.12.2017 | 10 stories that defined the Nigerian tech scene in 2017 | Yes, it’s that time again! Welcome to the 2nd edition of top ten stories of the year. If you’ve read last year’s top 10, then you will be familiar with some ground rules; no PR! Nothing wrong with PR itself, but we’re going to keep away fro... |
| 08.12.2017 | Global LinkUP: $60 million worth of Bitcoin has been stolen | Share this article:
There are plenty monies in the news this week; lost, gained, invested and being contested in court. Read on for more. Bitconned
On Wednesday according to CoinMarket Cap, Bitcoin surged past $3,000 in 36 hours to reach a ... |
| 20.10.2017 | Global LinkUP; The overvaluation of Snapchat | Share this article:
This week, there was a drone accident in Canada and in America, a Wall Street firm confessed it had been too optimistic about Snapchat. Drones flying amok
In an earlier edition of the Global LinkUP, we saw the aviation a... |
| 06.10.2017 | GlobalLinkUP: Google vs Apple | Share this article:
There was a major gadget and smartphone announcement this week from a tech company that you already know. Whether you know or not, there is a juicy angle to the gist for everyone. Buckle in. Google vs Apple
At a press co... |
| 27.09.2017 | A case for personalised learning in the Nigerian educational system | Share this article:
Despite rapid technological changes that have transformed the way we live and work; Nigerian classrooms have remained resistant to this change.
Recently, Silicon Valley’s celebrated style of learning was validated by a r... |
| 21.08.2017 | Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum releases its 2016 annual report | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Hello.
I’m writing this newsletter from Lagos, Nigeria, the second worst city to live in,... |
| 15.08.2017 | Race to the bottom: The fate of Taxify and Uber in Nigeria | Share this article:
Uber has come to become the buzzword for everything on-demand. But it took the company years of name change, legal battles, series of funding and expansion to earn its place in hearts and minds.
In its search for expansi... |
| 29.07.2017 | 5 Reasons Why Ecommerce Technology Will Continue to Evolve | Ecommerce is experiencing an unprecedented rise in its global acceptance. It’s the trusted source most people turn to for online purchases. Ecommerce technology has been in existence for some years now but has never gotten this much attenti... |
| 28.06.2017 | How to mitigate rising university tuition fees in Nigeria | Share this article:
38 Nigerian universities recently increased their tuition fees due to poor funding from the Federal Government. This move has not failed to generate mixed feelings from the populace. Granted, the academic journey of an a... |
| 22.06.2017 | Consolidation may be the answer for Nigerian telcos | Share this article:
According to reports from news sources, it is alleged that Etisalat Group has until Friday June 23 to give up its 45% stake in Etisalat Nigeria to different banks within and outside Nigeria. Two banks in the country have... |
| 24.05.2017 | Sleep deprivation as a recipe for success: Challenging the myth | Share this article:
Experts recommend a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 8 hours of sleep every night. Even though the 8-hour sleep cycle has been debated to be oversleeping in some quarters, 6 hours is the globally accepted standard.
There ar... |
