The countdown to Africa’s biggest and most prestigious celebration of film and television talent is officially on. Ahead of the awards tonight – that is on Saturday, 14 May – Africa Magic has unveiled top [c]
Africa Magic in association with MultiChoice have announced the hosts for the eighth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, set to hold on May 14, 2022, in Lagos, Nigeria. The multi-talented Nigerian media [c]
Africa Data Centres, the largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities on the continent, has announced the opening of its new 10MW data centre facility in Lagos, Nigeria. The new facility, the [c]
Eden Life, Africa’s first home services app for scheduling food, laundry and cleaning services, has completed a $1.4 million Seed round, led by UK-based LocalGlobe, along with participation from Samurai Incubate, Future Africa, Village Global, [c]
MultiChoice Africa is set to admit the next generation of young film creatives to the MTF Academy hubs in Nairobi, Lagos and Lusaka as part of the Class of 2022. After a 6-week selection process [c]
Three suspects have been arrested in Lagos following a joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation. The Nigerian nationals are believed to be members of a wider organized crime group responsible for distributing [c]
Illumina has announced a collaboration with 54gene, a health technology company working to advance precision medicine capabilities in Africa through research, advanced molecular diagnostics and clinical programs. The partnership will support the establishment of a [c]
Plentywaka, the transport startup, has raised a $300,000 pre-seed investment led by EMFATO, Microtraction and Niche Capital. Plentywaka will use the investment to continue to transform the transport system in Nigeria with improved mapping technology [c]
Plentywaka, the bus-sharing platform, has launched a logistics unit, Logistics By Plentywaka (LBP), an expansion to the company’s bus transportation network in Nigeria. In a direct response to the city-wide lockdown and restriction of movement, [c]
Orange Digital Ventures Africa (ODV) has announced its latest $1.5 million seed investment round on Youverify, a Lagos, Nigeria-based firm which automates identity and background verification processes, primarily serving financial and telecommunication service providers. Youverify [c]
Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), a Lagos-based technology innovation centre and the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) that connects science, society and policy in Africa and the rest [c]
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, this week held its inaugural Africa Tech Female Founder Summit in Lagos, Nigeria. Launched to build a collaborative network of Africa’s female tech founders, over 50 female founders [c]
Facebook, in partnership with Teleperformance, has announced the opening of its first Small Business Group (SBG) Operations Centre in Lagos, Nigeria, which will provide outsourced support to all English speaking advertisers across sub-Saharan Africa. The [c]
A Business-to-Business and on-demand delivery platform, kwik Delivery, which operates in Lagos, Nigeria has announced the release of its API to customers. “The most frequent question we got since our launch last June is ‘When [c]
Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund and incubator MEST Africa and Microsoft will host this year’s MEST Africa Summit 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. This year marks the fourth edition of the MEST Africa Summit, following [c]
West Africa’s connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne has launched its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state through deployment of ubiquitous broadband infrastructure across the [c]
Andela, the company which builds distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, is recruiting mid and senior level developers in 2019, as part of a new Power of “✗” campaign, as it looks to [c]
The issue of graduates not being well-prepared and lacking the technical skills necessary to see them transition seamlessly into their jobs has been raised in various quarters in the past, a situation that has led [c]
M-SCAN, a Uganda-based firm that develops portable mobile ultrasound devices (Ultrasonic probes), was crowned as Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most Promising Startup at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, held in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11, 2018. Bettr, a developer of [c]
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield in partnership with Facebook, returns to Africa in 2018, featuring panels and keynotes with high-powered industry leaders such as Omobola Johnson, senior partner at TLcom Capital, and Lexi Novitske of Singularity Investments. [c]
The Africa Fintech Summit will be held for the first time in Lagos, Nigeria, on November 8 – 9, 2018. The event comes on the heels of the earlier edition in Washington D.C. which featured leading [c]
After her Bachelors’ Degree in Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Methodist University, she got a job in the US, working in the country for over 3 years. But unlike those who settle and build both [c]
Players in the money transfer and cash remittance ecosystem from Africa are set to converge at the seventh RemittanceAfrica Expo that will take place on October 23 – 24, 2018 at the Lagos Oriental hotel, Nigeria, [c]
In line with its commitment to skills development and empowerment of entrepreneurs in Nigeria, GE recently partnered with the Lagos State Government and others to host a technology conference for Nigerian startups in the US. The [c]
West Africa’s under sea cable company, MainOne, will host this year’s NerdsUnite conference towards the end of February in Lagos, Nigeria. Nerds Unite is MainOne’s premier event meant to provide a platform attendees to share [c]
Cambium Networks, a provider of wireless broadband solutions, has announced that Tizeti Network has selected its cnPilot enterprise Wi-Fi access networks with an ePMP fixed wireless infrastructure to upgrade and modernize their networks across Lagos, Nigeria. Tizeti is one of [c]
MainOne and Tizeti have announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of internet services in Lagos. The partnership will leverage MainOne’s fiber connectivity, Tizeti’s twenty brand-new solar-powered towers, and [c]
Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger, will host the first of its Innovation Information sessions in Lagos, Nigeria in November. The session will focus on fintech and feature innovation-rich content, sharing and networking, aimed [c]
MainOne has reiterated the importance of Internet traffic domiciliation as a key requirement for growing the internet ecosystem in Africa. Speaking at the recent African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), MainOne’s CEO, Ms Funke Opeke challenged [c]
Lagos will in November host hundreds of key players in the African and global Internet industry sector at the 27th public policy meeting of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC). The event dubbed AFRINIC 27 will [c]
Basic Lead, the organizers of the region-centric DISCOP conferences and expos which target film, TV and digital content producers, has announced plans to expand its operations in Africa by 2019. In an announcement, Basic Lead [c]
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