Oluwadamilare Akinpelu is a lover of the Tech World. He is a calm person and also a protean writer.
John is a young employee based in Lagos. Based on the distance of his destination, he most times opts to use one of several ride hailing services – Ocar, Uber, Bolt (formerly Taxify). But traffic is a menace in Lagos ...
“Elections are not won on social media but perceptions are shaped there.” With the digital age comes digital tools like social media – a platform that has proven very explosive in all walks of life, including politics and governance. Government ...
Android users assemble! WhatsApp is finally rolling out the much sought-after feature to its platform, the dark mode. WhatsApp’s dark mode arrives in latest Android beta https://t.co/ZWlu8aKZgB pic.twitter.com/KTio9x6Dur— ...
Recently, Hindenburg Research, an investigative research and reporting firm released a report claiming Opera might be having financial issues running its business. Hence why the company has resorted to offering predatory short-term loans in Africa and India, to ...
Nigerian fintech startup, Flutterwave has started the year with an impressive development. The startup has secured $35 million in a Series B round of funding led by Greycroft Partners and eVentures. Visa, Green Visor and African fund CRE Venture Capital are ...
Boston-based accelerator, Catalyst Fund has unveiled six early-stage fintech startups that will participate in its accelerator program. The list consists of an agritech credit startup Farmart with operations in India as well as 5 African based startups – one of which ...
Opera has come under scrutiny for allegedly offering predatory loans to its customers in Nigeria, Kenya and India. The company has 3 loan android apps – CashBean (India), OKash (OPay, Nigeria), and OPesa (Kenya) – services which provided approximately 5 ...
Happy new year everyone! The tech space in Nigeria and Africa witnessed a lot of tech events in 2019. These events had startups, entrepreneurs, developers, investors, stakeholders, the government and other industry players, brought together or separately to hold ...
Facebook will no longer continue with its plans to place WhatsApp ads anywhere on the popular messaging platform. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has disbanded the team it formed to find suitable ways to insert ads to the ...
For its second edition, Africa Startup Summit Kigali has selected 11 African tech startups to pitch on stage, with 5 Nigerian Startups – OkwuEco, HouseAfrica, Limestart, ThankUCash and Riby, participating. ...
