TradeDepot, the B2B eCommerce and embedded finance platform in Africa, has appointed former Coca Cola and Hayat Kimya Nigeria Executive, Chidi Akubuiro, as its Managing Director for English-speaking West Africa. Effective from May 1, 2022, [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]
Nikki Popoola, Sales Director, West Africa at WIOCC, has been identified as one of the 20 Women to Watch within the global wholesale carrier community in the latest issue of the industry’s magazine, Capacity. In the “20 [c]
By Titilayo Adewumi Across Africa, urban centres are rapidly expanding as the continent’s large – and growing – youth population seek better fortunes in the city. In 2020, Kinshasha was the world’s 17th-largest city by [c]
Orange and its subsidiaries announced the commissioning and commercial launch of Djoliba, the first pan-African backbone, at the AfricaTech Festival international trade fair. The infrastructure is based on a terrestrial fibre optic network, coupled with [c]
Suguba in partnership with Mercy Corps and the French Development Agency (AFD) is organizing its second investment readiness program in French-speaking West Africa to support the most promising start-ups in the digital sector. The 8 [c]
First Distribution, a pan-African distributor of cyber security, data centre, enterprise and Cloud solutions, has expanded its distribution agreement with Kaspersky, now offering the security software portfolio in West Africa. First Distribution currently distributes Kaspersky [c]
MainOne, West Africa’s provider of wholesale and enterprise connectivity and data center services, marks 10 years of operations this year. Ten years ago, the company launched its operations with the commissioning of the first private [c]
Suguba has partnered with Mercy Corps and the French Development Agency (AFD) to organize the second 6-month investment readiness program in West Africa to support the 8 most promising startups in the digital sector in [c]
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Multisectoral Regional Office for West Africa (UNESCO) and StarTimes recently established a partnership by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The parties agreed to carry out projects for [c]
Technology and thought leaders from top Nigerian companies gathered last week at the SAP Executive Roundtable to discuss opportunities for Nigeria to excel in the digital economy. The event featured a line-up of expert speakers [c]
Printronix has recently signed a distribution agreement with Tri-Continental. Under the deal, Tri-Continental, a major IT distributor in the African market, will distribute Printronix and TallyGenicom line matrix printers as well as its desktop serial [c]
Vista Group, a West Africa-based bank specifically designed to meet the needs of retail and commercial customers, has picked Temenos to power its digital transformation journey. Vista Bank is transforming its IT systems using Temenos [c]
Liquid Telecom has appointed Mohamed Abdel Bassit as its new Regional CEO for Middle East and West Africa (MEWA), effective January 1, 2019. Based in Cairo, Bassit will oversee the group’s expansion further into MEWA [c]
Gulf Capital, one of the largest and most active alternative asset management firms in the Middle East, and AfricInvest, a pan-African mid-cap-focused private equity firm, have partnered for the first time to provide a US$ [c]
West Africa’s data centre provider, MDXI and global IXP platform provider, Asteroid have partnered to launch a carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for the region. The West African Internet Exchange (WAF-IX), is based on Asteroid’s [c]
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire will from November 23 to 25, 2018, host the second edition of the Electronic and Video Game Festival of Abidjan (FEJA). This event is organized by Paradise Game, a key player in the [c]
Orange and MainOne Cable Company have signed an agreement allowing for a major investment by Orange in the West Africa submarine cable system, MainOne. Through the deal, Orange will acquire additional capacity, thereby reinforcing its position [c]
From an early age, he always had a dream of one day running a business in Africa. And so strong was the feeling that when he turned 18, he’d to share it with his wife [c]
African payment service provider DPO has announced the official opening of its office in Ghana as part of the company’s expansion efforts in the West African market. The new office will act as the DPO headquarters [c]
By Magnus Nmonwu Cash flow problems – more money going out of the business than is coming in – are among the most significant reasons that Nigerian companies go out of business. Cash flow isn’t simply [c]
West Africa’s premier data centre solutions provider, MDXi – part of MainOne – has launched an advertising campaign aimed at reinforcing the company’s position as the data center provider of choice for enterprises in the region. [c]
Following the partnership of MainOne’s Data Center company, MDXi, with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, (IXPN) to improve national transit traffic in Nigeria, the company has announced a new interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and ISPs [c]
Ms Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne, has been nominated as one of 50 top influencers transforming the data center and cloud landscape in Africa, Middle East and Europe (EMEA) at the DataCloud Europe 2017 conference [c]
By Magnus Nmonwu The IDC CIO Summit, currently underway in Lagos, is focusing on how the next wave of social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technologies will unleash innovation and productivity in the enterprise by [c]
Toni Solarin-Sodara has been awarded the Most Valuable Professional (or MVP) award from Microsoft. The award comes after Toni worked consistently for four years with the .NET platform at Andela. The Microsoft’s MVP is a coveted award [c]
Orange has launched its brand in Burkina Faso, with the move coming less than one year after the closing of the Group’s acquisition of Airtel in the West African nation. Orange will pursue its development in [c]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has organised an online campaign – the Aware Migrants campaign – with the aim to inform migrants from 15 countries – mostly in West Africa plus Tunisia and Egypt [c]
Ivory Coast is attracting investor interest from Americans of African descent, including one Tiahmo Rauf, a native of Missouri and a resident of Abidjan. Rauf is on course to developing a new city in the West [c]
A joint INTERPOL and Trend Micro research paper on cybercrime activity across West Africa has revealed a significant growth in cyber frauds on individuals and businesses. Combining survey results from INTERPOL member countries across the [c]
Chris Cox, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer has wound up his West Africa tour in Senegal which he visited to find out how the country’s creatives, developers and entrepreneurs are using Facebook and Instagram to bring [c]
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