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| Jul 15, 2025 | Imo State wants to become Nigeria’s AI capital. Can it bank on its local talent? | When Sullivan Emerald began his secondary education in Nekede, a quiet rural community near Owerri, his future ambitions were framed by stories his father read aloud from local newspapers—tales of brilliant Nigerian engineers who had made i... |
| Jun 2, 2025 | What is Lagos’ fastest food delivery app? I tested Chowdeck, Glovo, and FoodCourt to find out | Lagos’s food delivery market is increasingly competitive, but Glovo, a Delivery Hero-owned delivery platform, Y Combinator-backed Chowdeck, and FoodCourt are leading the race.
When deciding which apps to buy food from, users often consider ... |
| Aug 21, 2024 | “My Innovation Story” Podcast Launches, Spotlighting Africa’s Innovators | Africa’s innovation scene is brimming with inspiring stories. “My Innovation Story” with Femi Awoniyi, a new podcast launching today, delves into the journeys of the continent’s leading innovators.
Hosted by Femi Awoniyi, an innovation expe... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Is Nollywood missing out on the big business of Christmas movies? | For a lot of people, Christmas would be incomplete without the ritual of watching a mischievous eight-year-old in a house full of hilarious traps. This is why Home Alone remains a holiday classic, entertaining generations since 1990. It has... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | You know the internet, how about extranet and intranet?
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | ‘Internet’ is likely one of the world’s most popular terms as a word, a tool, and a concept. But its counterparts, ‘extranet’ and ’intranet’, are less popular. But for those familiar with all three terms, they know that internet, extranet, ... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Bola Tinubu and his plans for Nigeria’s tech ecosystem
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | At 4am on Wednesday, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was announced as Nigeria’s President-elect. While questions continue over the legitimacy of the elections, it’s worth reviewing Tinubu’s plans for the technology sector. It will let us know what to exp... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Big Cabal Media raises $2.3m to expand its compelling line of digital products | Over decades, the news media landscape has changed dramatically. Checking for news online—whether through Google, social network sites, major newspapers, or local media websites—has become ubiquitous. The widespread use of smartphones also ... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding | African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of ... |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Peace Ojemeh’s Haze Monkey finds a home in the $80 billion NFT industry | “Holy f*ck.”
That was what Beeple tweeted when “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days”, his non-fungible Token (NFT) art and the first purely digital work of art ever offered by a major auction house, was bought for $69 million at Christie’s in M... |
| Dec 21, 2021 | TechCabal Daily – MAXing out | 21 DECEMBER, 2021
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Kenyan mobile telecommunications giant, Safaricom, has expanded its subscription-based video platform, Baze, to include music streaming.
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| Apr 13, 2021 | Twitter chooses Ghana, Appzone raises $10m, Airtel Kenya 30% stake | Share this article:
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Oluwanifemi and Emmanuel here. Today we are discussing:
Twitter’s Africa office
Nigerian fintech, Appzone’s $10m Series A raise
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| Feb 5, 2021 | The ‘Beauty Boy’ is ready for Instagram stardom | Seated in the living room of a multi-storey Lagos duplex, I watch my host descend a flight of wood-panelled stairs. He is wearing flip flops and doesn’t have his signature lip gloss on.
A white long sleeve sweatshirt paired with tight grey ... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Platform Capital invests in leading digital media publisher in Africa, Big Cabal Media, and appoints Dr. Akindele to its board | Lagos, 15th September 2020: Platform Capital (Platform), a leading growth markets investor, is pleased to announce its investment in Big Cabal Media (BCM), a leading digital media publisher in Africa, operating out of Nigeria.
BCM is buildi... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | Africa’s femtech sector is nascent but promising | Since the term was coined in 2016, femtech, a sub-sector in health technology dedicated to creating solutions that address female wellbeing continues to gain traction and attract VC funding globally. In Africa, however, the space is still v... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Digital Nomads: Experiencing mobile payments in Liberia, a country with two currencies | In February, we talked to Ruz, a digital nomad who thinks “Abidjan is a Lagos that works”. If you haven’t read about his experience, fix up here.
The subject of today’s Digital Nomads is a Liberian who left his country in 2001 because of a ... |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Bankole Oluwafemi, editor-in-chief of TechCabal, leaves Big Cabal Media, the company he founded | Share this article:
Big Cabal Media co-founder, Bankole Oluwafemi on Friday announced that he is leaving the company he started.
Big Cabal Media, the digital media company behind online technology news publication TechCabal, and content pla... |
| Nov 14, 2019 | TechCabal Daily – $40 million in seed funding. Now what? | 96
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| Jul 25, 2017 | The alchemy of virality: Online marketing lessons from Nathaniel Bassey’s #HallelujahChallenge | Share this article:
It’s a catchy tune. But I’m not singing it because the campaign was a cultural phenomenon. It’s because I genuinely like the song.
Olowogbogboro Anthem, the song Nathaniel Bassey published off the success of his month-lo... |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Mobile is eating Nigeria, according to the 2016 Twinpine Mobile Trends Report | Mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, ... |
| May 27, 2016 | LAN Syndicates have announced the recipients of the N50M fund from the first Lagos StartUp DealDay | The first Lagos StartUp DealDay was in March and two ventures received a total of N50 million in investment from syndicates at the event. Not many people knew who the recipients were, but today, Lagos Angel Network (LAN), organisers of the ... |
| May 9, 2016 | Please help us caption these Radar Offline pictures | We posted pictures from the Radar Offline event. But some of them were so good that they deserved to be made into memes.
We’re not particularly good at this meme stuff…not as good as these people…so don’t smirk at what we came up with. Here... |
| Apr 4, 2016 | Ntel will launch their LTE service in Lagos and Abuja on April 8 | I just read on Thisday, that Mr. Kamar Abass, the CEO of Ntel (the new kids on the block in the Nigerian telco space), has announced that they will commence phase 1 of their product launch on April 8, by selling their 0804 mobile numbers in... |
| Mar 29, 2016 | Jide Technology is bringing its Remix Mini Android PC to Nigeria | The Remix Mini
Most people know of two types of personal computer. There’s Windows computers, which for all intents and purposes are what people assume you are talking about when you say the word “PC”. There are Mac computers, which is the ... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Ntel (FKA NITEL) just made its first VoLTE call ahead of its launch later this year | I just read on Innovation Village, that Ntel made its first voice over LTE call at 3:30pm yesterday, February 25, 2016. They made the call from their new Tier III data centre in Lagos Island, with help from SONY and Ericsson. Incase you’re ... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Rihanna – ANTI: First Impressions | Context. Context. Context. My first mistake was paying attention to comments about the album, before actually listening to it. Still, nothing prepared me for the music I found here. Like everyone else, I subconsciously took into account, Ri... |
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We know yesterday felt like we had entered the second half of the year, but we hate to break it to you, but June 1 isn’t the halfway mark of the year—July 1 ... |
| Nigeria builds out Africa’s future tech-media models | Tom Collins
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While media houses and legacy publications across the world are struggling to stay afloat and remain profitable, Nigerian startups are beginning to build out ... |
