Disruptions come up from time to time and as humans that we are, we never take the time to plan for them; at least not for a gigantic ones like the one the world is facing right now. The world has ...
Sub-Saharan Africa gained 50 million new mobile money accounts in 2019, raising the total number of registered accounts in the region to 469 million. With this figure, the region retained its status as the largest mobile money region in ...
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) has reversed its position after shutting down a warehouse belonging to e-commerce company, Jumia. The agency erroneously believed the company didn’t fall under the category of organisations permitted to operate during the lockdown, ...
Tech investment company, Rocket Internet has made known that it has sold its stake in African eCommerce company Jumia. Speaking to journalists, Bettina Curtze, head of finance and investments of Rocket internet said that the company which had ...
The rallying of innovators to tackle the rampaging coronavirus by Ventures Platform finally reached its demo day yesterday. It was held virtually due to the lockdown in effect to curb the spreading virus. Wellvis Health, Infodemics and 5 other startups ...
Andela’s Vice President of Global Operations, Seni Sulyman has announced his plans to step down from that role effective from May 15. This brings an end to his 4 years run at the company. ...
Earlier this year, Gokada and other bike-hailing startups came under fire by the Lagos state government following a restriction in several parts of the state. However, the startup is not letting this deter its plans of fully launching its ...
YouTube is planning to release a feature with a feed of brief videos called ‘Shorts’. The feature is expected to rival TikTok’s clips of short videos. ...
Video conferencing and meeting platform, Zoom, has apologised for incorrectly suggesting that its platform guarantees end-to-end encryption of communication. This comes after several backlash and investigations into the security of its platform following a surge in downloads and adoption. According to ...
Just a little over 3 months after uLesson raised a $3.1 million seed round from TLcom Capital, the edtech startup has attained 40,000 downloads across Play stores. uLesson was founded by Sim Shagaya who is also the Chief Executive Officer ...
