Electronic fraud has always been a serious problem in Nigeria. Each year, millions of hard working Nigerians lose billions of naira to all sorts of fraudsters via multiple schemes. But the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it’s only ...
Leading Nigerian mobile money company, Paga, has signed an exclusive partnership with international shopping company, Orange Mall. Orange Mall is an e-commerce solution making global shopping from international retailers available for easy purchase and shipment to Nigeria. ...
Nigerian businesses, big and small, have constantly struggled with challenges resulting from inefficiency in the Nigerian logistics industry. This makes it difficult to establish strong relationships between businesses with freight needs. Online logistics solution, Kobo360, aims to address this inefficiency ...
2018 has been an impressive year for African startups generally. Last year, African startups collectively raised $195 million according to Disrupt Africa. However this year, three startups alone have raised $224 million. They are Webuycars ($94m), Zola Electric ($75m), ...
Prominent Nigerian agritech startup, Farmcrowdy is celebrating its 2nd year in operation. Disrupting a major sector of the economy, Farmcrowdy since inception has gone on to show that the agriculture business could also be rewarding. ...
Yesterday, Nigerian internet service provider, MainOne admitted that it made a configuration error during a network upgrade. That error caused a disruption of key Google services by routing traffic to China and Russia. ...
Facebook-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp, has awarded $50,000 each to 20 research teams from 11 countries as recipients of its Misinformation and Social Science Research Awards. The research teams have been charged with the investigation of how misinformation spreads on WhatsApp ...
Africa’s biggest telecom conglomerate, MTN Group continues to intensify its efforts in the digital space. According to reports, the holdings company has recently wrapped up the acquisition of South African music streaming service, Simfy Africa. This is by ...
Nigerian-based Venture Capitalist firm, EchoVC has recently completed a new investment in Kenyan edtech startup, Kukua. The VC firm led the recent $2.5 million seed funding round in the Kenyan startup a few days ago. Other investors who participated ...
If water is life then clean water is clean life! Water is a fundamental human need. In fact every person on Earth requires at least 20 to 50 liters of clean, safe water a day. As such, the United Nations considers ...
