Events

Rubies Bank to host the maiden edition of Tech Meets Banking

Rubies Bank is set to host the inaugural edition of its fintech event on February 21, 2020, at FreeMe Digital, Lekki, Lagos, 10 AM prompt.

News

Carbon launches $100,000 entrepreneurship fund to support African startups

Carbon has set up a $100,000 fund to support African startups. The fund will address the lack of funding and support holding back budding tech entrepreneurs on the continent.

News

Highlights of the 2020 Innovation Showcase Week

Highlights of the 2020 Innovation Showcase Week organised by Facebook in partnership with Co-creation Hub.

Opinion

5 things I learnt from completing #100DaysofCode

I learnt some important lessons during my #100DaysOfCode challenge. In this article, I've put them together to perhaps, inspire someone else.

News

Hackathon4Justice 2.0 winner is a solution that prevents child abuse

Predex—a team of University of Lagos and Covenant University students—has emerged winner of Hackathon4Justice 2.0 organised by Andela in partnership with Facebook and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

News

Applications are now open for the Africa4Future Acceleration Programme

Startups across Africa can now apply for the 2020 Africa4Future Aerospace Acceleration programme, which is powered by Airbus BizLab and GIZ. Now in its third edition, #Africa4Future is a three-month joint accelerator programme

Events

10 reasons why you should attend the Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence townhall

TechCabal will be holding its first townhall of the year on February 28, at the Zone Tech Park, 9 AM prompt. Use TCEM004BD to get 20% discount.

Fintech

Nigerian lending fintech, Aella Credit raises $10 million

Aella Credit raises $10 million in debt financing, expands into other product lines including a blockchain-based lending market, Creditcoin.

News

Innovation Showcase Week to display the best of West African innovation

Facebook, in partnership with Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), will be holding the second edition of its annual Innovation Showcase Week (ISW) on February 13 and February 14, 2020.

News

Farmcrowdy acquires Best Foods Livestock and Poultry Limited

Farmcrowdy has announced its acquisition of Best Foods Livestock and Poultry Limited to deepen its footprint in the livestock value chain.

Gokada

The many woes of Gokada

The Gokada lay-off was imminent, whether or not Lagos State Government banned bikes.

News

Lagos State explains why Gokada, Oride & MAXOkada are affected by the ban on tricycles and bikes

The Lagos State Government has said the reason Gokada, Oride, MAXOkada and other bike-hailing startups are affected by the ban on tricycles and bikes is because they are part of the problem

News

Google's first Africa Developer Space launched in Lagos is free for all

Google has launched its first Developer Space in Africa, in Lagos, Nigeria. The Google Developer Space would serve as a hub for Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa and can be used by members of the Africa tech community for free.

News

Oui Capital invests in Mauritius first app-based mobility startup, Vite

Oui Capital—an Africa-focused venture capital firm—has made an undisclosed pre-seed investment in Vite Technologies, the first app-based mobility startup in Mauritius

Opinion

Lagos bans tricycles and bikes, what's next for bike-hailing startups?

The Lagos State Government has announced the ban of tricycles (AKA "Keke NAPEP" or "Maruwa") and motorbikes (AKA Okada), including ORide, Gokada and MAXOkada. But by the book, there is a wiggle room for bike-hailing startups to negotiate the sanction.

News

Full list of areas tricycles and bikes have been banned in Lagos

Effective from Saturday, February 1, 2020, tricycles and motorbikes are restricted from operating in six local government areas, nine local council development areas, 10 major highways and 40 bridges across Lagos State—the commercial capital of Nigeria.

News

Ingressive invests $250,000 in three Nigerian startups

Ingressive Capital—an early stage venture capital firm—has cut three Nigerian startups a cheque of $250,000 (₦90.3 million).

Spotlight

Meet Ifedapo, the creator of IGdm and co-founder of LykDatApp—a fashion image search

Ifedapo Olarewaju, an open source developer at Transloadit, created IGdm—a desktop messaging app for Instagram—and co-founded LykDatApp—an image search application for fashion products.

Events

South-south/southeast innovation & startup stakeholders summit holds in February

The second edition of the South-South/South-East Tech, Innovation and Startup Stakeholders Summit is set to hold on February 7—8, 2020.

News

Go Global Africa 2020 is now open for application

Go Global Africa is now for open for applications from Kenyan, Nigerian and South African entrepreneurs who are using technology solve problems in their countries.

News

Flutterwave becomes Endeavor's first investee in Nigeria with $35 million series B round

Flutterwave has closed a $35 million Series B round as Endeavor's first investee in Nigeria.

Opinion

5 remote-friendly companies with a lot of flexibility and good pay

A list of remote-friendly companies you can work for that pay pretty well and give you a lot of flexibility.

Spotlight

Fantastic.ng has an ambitious plan of changing the 'game'

If every punter wins, bookmakers won't make money. Fantastic.ng is changing the game.

News

Funding your mutual funds with Stash will now cost a dime

The love of Ope from Cowrywise costs a dime. A processing fee will now be applied when funding your mutual funds with Stash.

News

[Updated] Why MTN customers have been experiencing slow internet speed

MTN apologizes for slow Internet speed and difficulties customers have been experiencing in accessing data services. The problem is beyond its control.