Earlier in September, word started making the rounds that the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) will start regulating the online advertising space. The Advertising Standards Panel of APCON confirmed it in a release titled: Vetting of Internet-Based Advertisements ...
Just Google it! Google is the go-to site when you have got that burning question or information to verify. And the last 7 days has been quite eventful in Nigeria. From entertainment to politics to tech, a lot has been reported ...
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to order telecom operators in the country to block over 9 million sim cards that are without proper registration. ...
The Lead Partner of budgIT, Oluseun Onigbinde, has seemingly deleted his Twitter account after accepting an appointment to join the current administration as a Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Budget and National Planning. Seun (as most people prefer to ...
Two Nigerian Agritech startups, Foodlocker Limited and Trackball Global Technologies Nigeria, have won prizes at the 2019 Pitch AgriHack competition. The winners list also featured 5 other African startups. An annual event, Pitch AgriHack is organised by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and ...
Earlier this week, the Federal Executive Committee announced an increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods from 5 per cent to 7.2 per cent. According to the Minister of Finance, Budgeting and Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the new rate ...
Google has announced four Nigerian startups among the 12 selected for the fourth cohort of its African Launchpad accelerator based in Lagos. Google Hub The four startups ...
About one third (approximately 1.3 billion tonnes) of the food produced globally for human consumption gets lost or wasted annually. And in developing countries like Nigeria, 40% of those losses occur at post-harvest and processing levels. These are mostly ...
The Federal Government TraderMoni programme is a compendium of several success stories and a few weeks back, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) marked their third year of creating amazing impact. While the evident impact of the government credit program ...
Nigerian fintech startup, Kuda (formerly Kudimoney), has raised $1.6m in a pre-seed funding round to allow it launch in Nigeria. The pre-seed round was led by investor Haresh Aswani with participations from Ragnar Meitern and a host of other angel investors. And ...
