Ola Williams has been announced as the new Country Manager for Microsoft Nigeria. Previously, the Specialist Sales Leader working with the extended team and the company’s partner organizations to grow cloud revenue across enterprise customers, [c]
Field Intelligence, the health tech startup that is digitising the supply chain and transforming access to essential, life-saving medicine, has today announced its expansion into Rivers, Edo, Kaduna, Kano, Enugu, Delta and Kwara States in [c]
Olumide Soyombo, one of Africa’s most prolific and active early-stage investors in tech startups, has announced the launch of Voltron Capital – a pan-African pre-seed and seed firm for elite tech founders tackling critical problems [c]
SuperSport viewers on DStv and GOtv can look forward to the world’s biggest and most diverse celebration of sport, the Summer Olympic Games, which will run from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. SuperSport is the ultimate destination for [c]
The sixth season of Big Brother Naija tagged Shine Ya Eye, premiered Saturday night with 11 male housemates unveiled by show’s host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu. The first set of housemates – Boma, Saga, Yousef, Pere, Whitemoney, [c]
Entertainment, media, and advertising companies in Kenya are set to reap from rising spending even as traditional components of the sector such as television decline, a new report by PwC shows. In the report titled [c]
M-KOPA, the connected asset financing platform, today announces it has officially expanded to Nigeria. To lead the Nigeria team, M-KOPA has named Babajide Duroshola as the new General Manager. A part of the tech company’s [c]
Celebrated Nigerian filmmaker, broadcaster, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Mo Abudu, has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, (Oscars), as one of 29 producers, and the only African and Nigerian in [c]
Tix.Africa, a self-service ticketing platform for event creators in Nigeria, has secured a six-figure pre seed funding. The funding round was led by HoaQ, with participation from a number of private equity investors, and will [c]
Carbon, a pan-African fintech company providing access to basic financial services, has announced a five-year deal with Visa to offer both digital and physical issuance of Visa cards to its customers. Carbon is launching Visa [c]
MDaaS Global, the healthtech company building and operating a network of modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers across Nigeria, has raised $2.3 million in seed extension led by Newtown Partners via the Imperial Venture Fund, with participation [c]
Jiji, supported by Lemma.Group, and Cars45, have announced a deal to merge their operations in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. The merger of operations promises a new level of trade experience for auto buyers and sellers across [c]
FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), the investing arm of FSD Africa, has invested $4.5 million in Nithio FI, a renewable energy financing intermediary focused on the Pay as You Go (PAYG) off-grid solar sector, to provide reliable and sustainable [c]
Over the past three decades, the Nigerian film industry has built up a remarkable reputation for not only producing some of the most exciting films in the region but also for inspiring new film industries [c]
Oracle has announced that the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) has partnered with Oracle for Startups to support the technology business ecosystem in Lagos State, Nigeria. The partnership will create entrepreneurship solutions, training, and upskilling [c]
Gokada, the Nigeria-based last mile delivery, logistics and transportation start-up has launched a ‘Super App’ where customers can access food delivery, ecommerce, and ride hailing services in one app. The Super App launch comes as [c]
Jobberman, the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa, has partnered with the Nigerian Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in a bid to train 120,000 youth corpers a year. The free soft skills training course, [c]
As part of its strategy to grow its business in West Africa, Kaspersky has partnered with value-added distributor DataGroupIT to provide the global cybersecurity company with access to new markets in Nigeria and Ghana. “DataGroupIT [c]
Airtel has announced the appointment of Olusegun “Segun” Ogunsanya, the MD and CEO of Nigeria, as the new head of the group’s operations in Africa. Segun succeeds Raghunath “Raghu” Mandava, the current MD and CEO [c]
An innovation featuring a unique digital platform with capabilities to link students and teachers across Africa has been voted winner in the just concluded Season 2 of Game of Learners (GOL) competition sponsored by Microsoft’s [c]
Nigerian fintech platform and Open Finance (API Economy) pioneers, Okra, has secured a $3.5 milion Seed raise. The round was led by US-based Susa Ventures, with participation from existing investors TLcom Capital, and newly joined [c]
By Joshua Ndemenge In March, the Microsoft’s Africa Development Centre (ADC) announced the kick-off of Season 2 of its Game of Learners (GOL) program, an initiative aimed at enhancing digital and coding skills amongst university [c]
Sparkle, a mobile-first digital ecosystem providing financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians across the globe, has launched Sparkle Business, a new service on the existing Sparkle mobile app, to help small businesses and [c]
Microsoft has announced the kick-off of Season 2 of the Game of Learners (GOL) program, an initiative aimed at enhancing digital and coding skills amongst university students in Kenya and Nigeria. An initiative of Microsoft’s [c]
Groupm sub-Saharan Africa has announced that in order to meet the needs of an expanding market, it has extended the Groupm Academy GradX program, established in South Africa in 2020, to Kenya and Nigeria with [c]
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has announced that Nigerian brands who shoot their commercials outside the country will from now have to pay N100,000 (about $260) each time it is aired on [c]
Gokada, the Nigeria-based last mile delivery, logistics and transportation start-up, has formally unveiled Nikhil Goel as its new CEO, as it continues to evolve from a riding-hailing company to becoming the leading food delivery, parcel [c]
Kobo360’s CEO and co-founder, Obi Ozor, has been honoured as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2021. Through the Young Global Leader Program, Ozor will embark on a five-year leadership development journey that will [c]
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. And no event or incident has illustrated this than the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Amidst the calamity and uncertainty brought on the global population by the [c]
Jobberman, the Nigeria-based job placement platform, has announced the appointment of Rolake Rosiji as the new CEO of Nigeria. Rolake takes over from Hilda Kragha, now the MD of ROAM Africa Jobs, and will continue [c]
Kwik Delivery has that it has released its Kwik Delivery plugin for Shopify, allowing Nigeria-based Shopify merchants to seamlessly integrate Kwik’s last-mile delivery service. “Last September, Kwik had become the first African last-mile delivery platform to release [c]
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