Welcome to another of our weekly roundups as we bring you a summary of the tech and not-so-tech events/news that happened during the week. Are you aware that there’s a newly-developed Election Monitor app that promotes transparent elections electronically? Well, we’ve ...
Sometimes, we find ourselves in a financial fix and getting a loan facility happens to be the easiest way out of the mess. However, getting a loan in Nigeria from regular financial institutions can be very difficult, considering the time and ...
Mr Austin Okere, Founder of CWG Plc, the largest ICT Company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange & Entrepreneur in Residence at CBS, New York made his thoughts known on a number of issues in the tech space ...
The Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has opened applications for its 2018 NIBSS Hackathon. The maiden edition of the hackathon is designed to bring together tech-driven individuals, and innovative software developers to learn and collaborate ...
The shares of MTN Group has risen by 5% following the news that Nigeria’s CBN is tracking back on the sanctions it placed on its Nigerian subsidiary last week. MTN Nigeria was penalized last week by the ...
Elections in Nigeria are fast approaching, and with them comes the panic on the security and accuracy of election results. From procedural miscues to unavoidable human errors during collation at the different collation points (From polling units to the last ...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation is set to launch the world’s largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs called TEFConnect. Targeted at the African entrepreneurship ecosystem, the platform is aimed at providing a contemporary, informative and user-friendly go-to entrepreneurship space for the ecosystem’s ...
Nigerian medical startup, Lifebank.ng has been selected as a finalist for the $650,000 MIT Solve Global Challenges. LifeBank and the other Solve Finalist Teams will pitch their solutions to judges on September 23, 2018, in ...
Global payments card provider, Visa is celebrating its 60th year of operation. The general-purpose credit card is, in fact, the world’s 2nd largest and most prominent payments network (after China’s UnionPay). This is because a large portion ...
Merck Accelerator has announced the 10 startups taking part in its Satellite Program holding in Lagos. Out of the ten participants in the contest, eight are Nigerian with the other two from Ghana and Cameroon. ...
