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| Apr 19, 2024 | Innovative Early-Stage Startups to Win $10,000 Cash Prize & Japan Trip at Pitch2Win 4 | Lagos, Nigeria – 10 am GMT+1, 19th April 2024 – Nigeria’s tech scene is brimming with potential, but early-stage startups often face hurdles in securing funding and gaining recognition. Last year, after a very rigorous selection process, 15... |
| May 30, 2023 | Uber Go is gaining traction in Lagos, but riders want more
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | Uber’s cheaper ride-hailing option, Uber Go appears to be providing relief to Lagos residents. But riders say it can’t displace the market leaders because of some shortcomings.
If you live in Lagos and you don’t own a car like me, chances a... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Why Y Combinator is interested in East and North Africa | Share this article:
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Disney+’s launch in South Africa Why Y Combinator is interested in East and North Africa
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| Apr 14, 2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 8th April, 2020 | Hello!
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Drum roll! The Jack Ma foundation has unveiled the second edition of the Africa Netpreneur Prize. Interested startups stand to gain $1.5 million cash prize. The application is op... |
| Dec 3, 2019 | Google is helping families in Africa stay safe online | Google is educating children on how to be safe and behave wisely online. It’s a responsibility they have willingly embraced, and one that is shared by government, non-profit organizations, the education community and other stakeholders.
Thi... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | OEverything: Can OPay dominate Nigeria’s fintech market? | They’re everywhere, green and hard to miss. You’ve probably used one of their services or perhaps you haven’t. Not just yet. But you’ve heard of them and seen their billboards around town. OPay landed quietly in Nigeria in 2018 as a payment... |
| Jul 15, 2019 | Some of China’s Most Innovative Companies are now Backing Nigeria’s OPay | Nigeria-based OPay has closed a new $50 million funding round, the largest for any Nigerian tech startup so far in 2019. The company will use the new funding to deepen its roots in the Nigerian market for all its digital businesses includin... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | Why digital safe spaces are important for the African youth | Share this article:
Every year since 1999, the 12th of August has been designated as International Youth Day by the United Nations General Assembly. This date is “an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partner... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: A $500m bid for 9mobile, MutliChoice fined ₦5.9bn | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
A 2-horse race? Coming on the heels of rumours that Globacom was favoured to takeover 9mobile, there are fresh repor... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: Onyeka Onwenu sues iROKING for ₦205m | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Onyeka Onwenu vs iROKING. Renowned Nigerian musician and actress, Onyeka Onwenu has sued online music distribution p... |
| Jan 8, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: From Nigeria to Africa | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Hotels.ng is now profitable, expands across Africa. Having raised over $1.5m in venture capital since 2013, Nigerian... |
| Dec 16, 2017 | This week on Techpoint: The struggles of a Nigerian inventor | Share this article:
In a classroom at the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), a lecturer teaching the theories and principles of engineering mentioned an equation and its constituent constant.
A curi... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Africa News Roundup: Forming Voltron for the internet | Share this article:
Here are this week’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Improving internet connectivity in Lagos. Nigeria’s MainOne and Tizeti have announced a joint project with Facebook tha... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | Africa News Roundup: Impending African unicorn alert | Share this article:
Econet could become valued at over $8 billion, new board appointments and putting a stop to telecoms vandalism. Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Impe... |
| Aug 14, 2017 | Still stuck in school — NITDA’s awkward romance with Nigerian startups [opinion] | When many Nigerian founders of startups are asked to list their major challenges, they often mention the lack of support from the Nigerian government.
While this is a widely accepted position in the country’s startup ecosystem, government o... |
| Aug 14, 2017 | Still stuck in school — NITDA’s awkward romance with Nigerian startups [opinion] | When many Nigerian founders of startups are asked to list their major challenges, they often mention the lack of support from the Nigerian government.
While this is a widely accepted position in the country’s startup ecosystem, government ... |
| Aug 2, 2017 | How Lagos can produce the next generation of world-class technicians | Share this article:
When Sunday Oyelami completed his secondary school education in 2010, he got a job at a pure water factory. He was so fascinated by the operating system of the factory’s machines that he decided to get technical skills s... |
| May 10, 2017 | Lagos Uber Riders Consider Uber Alternatives
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| May 10, 2017 | Nigeria’s internet population further decreases | Share this article:
In March, we reported Nigerian telcos lost 1,277,573 internet users in the month of February. Leaving Nigerian internet users at 90,029,182. Nigeria has recorded another loss in the number of its internet users.
NCC has ... |
| May 8, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: The African Connectivity Hustle | Hey there! 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).
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| Nov 10, 2016 | Delivering education through technology in Africa | Share this:
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| Nov 1, 2016 | Social and messaging solutions enabling Africans to connect & help each other | Share this:
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| Sep 30, 2016 | The Nigerian Startup Ecosystem Reference Book | Share this article:
Over the past eight years, the Nigerian technology sector has recorded some level of growth in a silent manner. The recent visit by Mark Zuckerberg to Yaba, Lagos revealed some five to six years of work done by passionat... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Ten app: the bold attempt to digitise tithe, offerings in Nigeria | In Nigeria, the first week in August is usually a very busy one particularly along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway, otherwise known as “Jesus Highway.” This is due to a large number of people — usually millions — attending the annual convention... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Ten app: the bold attempt to digitise tithe, offerings in Nigeria | In Nigeria, the first week in August is usually a very busy one particularly along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway, otherwise known as “Jesus Highway.” This is due to a large number of people — usually millions — attending the annual convention... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | Of funding sprees, low ROIs and massive layoffs: The future of eCommerce in Nigeria | Share this article:
I’m not going to bother myself with big grammar; eCommerce is simply talking about business done over the internet. And I am shocked to report that as at 2013, over 60 million Nigerians were on the internet. These were p... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Nigeria’s ‘underperforming’ food apps leave many questions | It’s an open secret that food apps are not as popular as ecommerce and payment apps in Nigeria, despite the love for food uniting the people more than music and sports.
A few weeks ago, I heard of the ambitious goal of a re-launched app ca... |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Nigeria’s ‘underperforming’ food apps leave many questions | It’s an open secret that food apps are not as popular as ecommerce and payment apps in Nigeria, despite the love for food uniting the people more than music and sports.
A few weeks ago, I heard of the ambitious goal of a re-launched app cal... |
| May 18, 2016 | 5 Nigerian startups with seriously disruptive capabilities | ‘Disruptive’ is a powerful word, because it’s not really about a startup that is making money or one that is able to get millions of users. Instead, a disruptive startup is one that is groundbreaking and innovative. Prior to 2015, Nigeria’s... |
| May 18, 2016 | 5 Nigerian startups with seriously disruptive capabilities | ‘Disruptive’ is a powerful word, because it’s not really about a startup that is making money or one that is able to get millions of users. Instead, a disruptive startup is one that is groundbreaking and innovative. Prior to 2015, Nigeria’s... |
| 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 9, 2016 | Is WeChat on the verge of exiting Nigeria? | Share this article:
Free instant messaging and calling service, WeChat might be on the verge of exiting the Nigerian market, according to information reaching us.
Rumour has it that majority of the in-house staff (mostly developers) have be... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Four problems the revamped Google should tackle now it’s free to innovate | Google is seen as a world leader in innovation, an important backer of tech start-ups and a pioneer in all our futures. The corporation, which is financially the size of a mid-range country, just reorganised its structure so that it can con... |
| The Big 5 Daily: 8th April, 2020 | Hello!
Welcome to the Big 5 Daily!
Enjoy your tech gist ride!
Drum roll! The Jack Ma foundation has unveiled the second edition of the Africa Netpreneur Prize. Interested startups stand to gain $1.5 million cash prize. The application is op... |
