News Standard Chartered Nigeria launches a digital bank. Now what? What does the launch of digital banks by legacy financial institutions mean for fintechs such as Kuda and Rubies Bank.
News Zenith Bank debuts Tech Fair and Hackathon with the highest prize-money ever If you add the funfair and innovative exhibitions, Zenith Tech Fair is easily the most glamorous tech event in 2019.
News Obi Ozor wins 'Young Business Leader of the Year’ & ‘Innovator of the Year’ awards The co-founder and CEO of Kobo360, Obi Ozor, has been named Young Business Leader of the Year and Innovator of the Year.
Events TC Townhall: What's needed for edtech to be successful in Africa? What's needed for edtech to be successful in Africa?
News #StopRobbingUs Campaign Calls for Survivors to Come Forward Nigeria’s tech leaders are calling for hundreds more survivors of the Nigeria Police’s systematic attacks on the country’s young tech entrepreneurs and workers to come forward, as they commence legal proceedings.
News Sim Shagaya's edtech startup, uLessson secures $3.1 million seed funding uLesson—the latest venture of Sim Shagaya—has secured $3.1 million (₦1.1 billion) funding in a seed round led by TLcom Capital, one of the leading venture capital firms focused on the African market.
News These are the 10 best tech companies to work for in Nigeria One global engineering-outsourcing company, three American multinationals, three fintechs, one e-commerce firm, one global IT support company and one indigenous technology firm.
News Nigerian developers build apps for #SayNoToSocialMediaBill Use the apps to reach out to your senator and #SayNoToSocialMediaBill
News First ‘Facebook iD8 Nairobi’ conference celebrates Africa's growing tech ecosystem Facebook gathered over 400 developers, business owners and startups from across Sub-Saharan Africa at the maiden edition of its "Facebook iD8 Nairobi" conference
Spotlight 28 Tech Communities for developers, designers and product managers 28 Tech Communities for developers, designers and product managers in Nigeria
News Why OPay launched another mobility service Venture-backed OPay adds ride-hailing service, OCar, to its offerings, as it continues strategic experimentation to strengthen its super app status.
News Gbenro Dara, former Cheki boss, joins Opera as Managing Director of OList Gbenro Dara has joined Opera as the Managing Director of OList, the online marketplace and classified ads business of Opera in Nigeria.
News Four Nigerian startups get a share of Jack Ma's $1 million LifeBank, TriveAgric, DrugStoc and Black Swan were among the 10 finalists of the maiden edition of the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) organized by Jack Ma Foundation (JMF).
Press release TechCabal's EdTech and Future of Work townhall holds November 29 On November 29, TechCabal will be bringing together EdTech entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers at the Zone Tech Park for its townhall meeting, themed: EdTech & Future of Work.
News Appruve wins HiiL's Innovating Justice regional final in Lagos Appruve, the flagship product of a Ghanaian startup — Inclusive Innovations Inc., has emerged the winner of the 2019 Hague Institute of Innovation of Law (HiiL) Innovating Justice Challenge West Africa regional final.
News Vetifly to launch "Uber for helicopter" service in Nigeria next year Vetfly, a new mobility startup, has launched Uber for helicopter. You can now fly over traffic for as low as $100 on your first flight.
News OLX Group to become largest shareholder in FCG, the parent company of Cars45 OLX Group has announced plans to invest up to $400 million (₦144.6 billion) in Frontier Car Group (FCG) — the parent company of Lagos-based Cars45.
News Expected outcomes after Twitter & Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, visit Nigeria Aside the photo ops and jollof rice, what are the expected outcomes of Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square CEO, visit to Nigeria?
News CcHUB celebrates African tech leaders with augmented reality exhibition CcHub has officially launched an augmented reality (AR) art exhibition to celebrate 24 African tech leaders, including Jason Njoku, Funke Opeke, Tomi Davies and Rebecca Enonchong
News Bolt is talking to SoftBank about its next funding round Bolt could be raising funds in the next six months and SoftBank would be one of the investors.
Events 2019 Web Summit achieves record participation from Africa If there was a watchword for this year, it would be 2019: Africa to the World. 30 startups and 10 thought leaders in tech represented Africa at the 2019 World Summit.
News Andela's official launch in Egypt and the agreement with ITIDA Andela has officially launched in Egypt with more than 80 senior developers hired. It also signed an agreement with the Information Technology Industry and Development Agency (ITIDA).
Events Highlights of the largest gathering of developers in Nigeria, DevFest 2019 DevFest Lagos is the largest gathering of developers in Nigeria. Period.
News Opera expands its online marketing service with OLeads Opera—the software company whose claim to fame was its data-saving web and mobile browser—has launched OLeads to beef up its online advertising service in Nigeria.
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