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  • [ June 28, 2022 ] Epson scanners shine at DataMaster Lab Awards, winning seven category prizes CSR
  • [ June 27, 2022 ] Proparco invests undisclosed sum in Moringa to fund training startup’s expansion in Africa Analysis & Features
  • [ June 27, 2022 ] Subscribers to pay for Kodris Africa’s coding content for students at National Bank branches CSR
  • [ June 27, 2022 ] Eloho Omame named Partner at TLcom Capital as VC firm moves to deploy $150 million pan-African tech fund  Analysis & Features
  • [ June 27, 2022 ] Two new smartphone models set to join the realme range in Kenya CSR
  • [ June 27, 2022 ] PocketApp gets government approval to launch mobile money services in Nigeria   Analysis & Features
  • [ June 27, 2022 ] StarTimes to broadcast AFCON 2023 Qualifiers and Women’s Finals CSR
  • [ June 24, 2022 ] MultiChoice wins as High Court orders ISPs to block sports pirating websites CSR
  • [ June 23, 2022 ] Top four reasons to buy the new HUAWEI nova Y70 Analysis & Features
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Toke Makinwa, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Uti Nwachukwu, and Sika Osei are the Red Carpet hosts for 8th AMVCAs

May 14, 2022 admin 0

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]

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South African media personality, Bonang Matheba, joins IK Osakioduwa as co-host of 8th AMVCAs 

May 6, 2022 admin 0

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]

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Africa Data Centres opens new 10MW facility in Lagos, Nigeria

November 30, 2021 admin 0

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]

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Eden Life, a Nigeria-based platform, raises $1.4 million to expand home concierge services portfolio 

October 13, 2021 admin 0

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]

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60 TV and Film producers to join MultiChoice Africa’s MTF Academy

September 8, 2021 admin 0

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]

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INTERPOL operation nabs 3 Nigerians suspected of malware, phishing and BEC scams

November 26, 2020 admin 0

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]

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Illumina in deal with 54gene to set up new genomics facility in Lagos, Nigeria

September 4, 2020 admin 1

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]

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Transport startup Plentywaka gets $300,000 investment and expands services to Abuja

August 4, 2020 admin 0

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]

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Bus sharing platform Plentywaka launches logistics division in Nigeria

June 22, 2020 admin 0

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]

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Orange affiliate invests $1.5 million in Youverify, a Nigeria-based startup

March 10, 2020 admin 0

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]

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5 winning pitches to each get $25,000 at Sciencepreneur Investor Meetup in Nairobi

December 3, 2019 admin 0

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]

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TLcom hosts inaugural Africa Female Founder Summit in Lagos, Nigeria

October 31, 2019 admin 0

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]

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Facebook to support English-speaking advertisers via operations centre in Lagos

October 3, 2019 admin 0

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]

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Lagos-based delivery platform, Kwik, opens API to clients for integration, flexibility

September 17, 2019 admin 0

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]

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Fourth edition of MEST Africa Summit set for Nairobi in June

June 3, 2019 admin 0

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]

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MainOne commits $70 million to provide broadband connectivity in Lagos, Nigeria

May 27, 2019 admin 0

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]

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Andela to hire more senior engineers in its four African hubs this year

May 21, 2019 admin 0

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]

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Microsoft development centres to boast tech skills, develop tailored solutions for Africa

May 15, 2019 admin 0

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]

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M-SCAN from Uganda wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 contest, gets $25,000

December 11, 2018 admin 0

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]

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From Nairobi, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa heads to Lagos, Nigeria

October 23, 2018 admin 1

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]

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Lagos, Nigeria to host second edition of Africa Fintech Summit in November

September 19, 2018 admin 0

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]

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Up&Ap: Agnes Muthoni on identifying, recruiting IT talent for Andela across Africa

August 4, 2018 admin 0

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]

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Cash transfer service providers to converge in Nigeria for RemittanceAfrica Expo

July 5, 2018 admin 0

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]

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GE, Microsoft partner with Lagos State govt to host tech event for Nigerian startups in US

May 5, 2018 admin 0

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]

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MainOne to host 2018 NerdsUnite conference in Lagos, Nigeria

February 6, 2018 admin 1

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]

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Tizeti selects Cambium Networks’ solution to upgrade its network in Lagos, Nigeria

December 21, 2017 admin 0

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]

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MainOne, Tizeti and Facebook partner to expand WiFi internet services in Lagos, Nigeria

December 11, 2017 admin 0

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]

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Creative Media Works, owner of BBM Messenger brand, to host Innovation session in Lagos

October 25, 2017 admin 0

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]

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More IXPs key to keep Africa’s internet traffic within the continent – MainOne CEO

September 4, 2017 admin 0

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]

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Lagos, Nigeria to host AfriNIC public policy meeting

August 11, 2017 admin 0

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]

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DISCOP to expand its film, TV and digital content market franchise into Zanzibar and Lagos by 2019

June 30, 2017 admin 0

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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