Flutterwave Flutterwave completes Series A extension round, welcomes Visa CEO to its Board and a new CEO Iyin Aboyeji, Flutterwave's CEO and Co-founder resigned and a new CEO - Olugbenga Agboola has been appointed. Visa CEO, Joe Saunders joins Flutterwave's Board of Directors as the company raises a Series A extension round.
Tech Events Tech Meets Entertainment Summit 2018 The Tech Meets Entertainment Summit (TEMS) organised by Ingressive will hold on one day during the Tour of Tech Africa (October 25) at Zone Tech Park. It is a conference designed for everyone
Tech Events 2018 Tour of Tech Africa by Ingressive LLC is set to hold in October The third edition of the Tour of Tech (ToT) Africa organised by Ingressive, a market entry firm for investment groups is set to hold on from October 23-30. The week-long event would treat
Opinion Affordable housing in Lagos; the battle is not for startups like Fibre Hunting for suitable accommodation in Nigeria can be likened to an extreme sport. In the process, there's the risk of getting scammed, the reality of spending numerous hours on futile attempts, and the
Spotlight An evening chat with Tife Ben-Adeola, an industrious 21-year-old serial entrepreneur and developer Tife Ben-Adeola is a very articulate 21-year-old who has built his life around acquiring skills that enables him to bring an idea to reality in only two weeks not requiring a third-party. He is
Twitter Twitter goes back in time to the (reverse) chronological feed Twitter users are tired of seeing tweets from people they do not follow. Also, they do not want to see old tweets first. On September 18, Twitter made a commitment to provide its users with an easy way to switch between latest tweets first or best tweets first. Here is what you need to know.
Chat banking UBA becomes the first Nigerian bank to launch on Whatsapp UBA's Leo is now on Whatsapp. The South-African company, Clickatell - a Whatsapp Business Solution Provider, stays winning.
Spotlight "I am most proud of the future we are all building", says developer advocate, iChuloo Online, Nigeria is best known for her involvement in online scams. However, a bunch of young Nigerians who work in Tech are using their online influence to shape the narrative by leading communities. We spoke with Williams "iChuloo" Imoh, a developer and community volunteer who now works at Andela.
Spotlight The launch of Zone Tech Park, a $6.5 million-backed start-up venture builder August 1, Zone Tech Park was officially launched. Here is a look at the D-Day and why it has quickly risen to become the preferred tech-focused event location in Lagos, Nigeria.
Google Everything Google for Nigeria plus what the media won't tell you On July 27 and 28, 2017, Google held its first Google for Nigeria event. It was a time of many firsts, as the CEO, Sundar Pichai, would be visiting Nigeria for the first
Google Can Osinbajo's visit to Google be tied to the launch of Google Station in the country? No doubt, the launch of Google Station, their public WiFi service was a major highlight at the just concluded Google for Nigeria event. This makes Nigeria the first country on the continent and
Financial Services Chat banking takes off in Africa via Whatsapp, Clickatell at the helm Chat banking in South Africa and Nigeria took off in 2016 and 2018, respectively. This happened primarily on Facebook Messenger. Yesterday's announcement by Nigerian banks will see it extend to Facebook's Whatsapp. The
Whatsapp What makes content go viral and how Whatsapp is handling that virality There are six traits of sticky, viral messages. Social media platforms like Whatsapp are at the fore of disseminating this information. Now, they are faced with managing same.
Opinion NOI, Twitter's board member and Nigeria's policy titan, a future president? This week, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (NOI) was announced as a Twitter board member. We took a look at her antecedents and wondered if she could be Nigeria's future President.
Tech Events Codebeast brings international developer conference to Nigeria The mountain is coming to Mohammed even as Codebeast partners with friends at Microsoft to bring international developer conference to Nigeria - Concatenate
Whatsapp How a young Nigerian SEO professional is leveraging Whatsapp Group Since May, Whatsapp group has seen a lot of improvements. Of the many powers given to group admins include an ability to prevent members from sending messages. Group creators and Admins like Yemi Johnson, are making good use of it in keeping their platforms sanitised.
Twitter Millions of fake followers are being removed in this Twitter purge In 2014, we saw an Instagram rapture. Now, we are witnessing the great Twitter Purge - where locked accounts and fake followers are being removed from users follower counts.
Spotlight Three months after, FirstBank Digital Lab goes live! In line with FirstBank's plans to become the number one digital bank, they have finally launched their FirstBank Digital Lab and it's in Yaba.
Opinion Why would PiggyBank introduce a Flex On Monday, June 25, Piggybank.ng, an impressive Nigerian fintech startup focused on savings released new updates to their service. The updates included; introduction of PiggyFlex, higher interest rates, and PiggyPoints conversion to cash.
Business Are banks leaving for Fintechs to come in? TLDR; They collect money and distribute the money. They earn a living from net interest. While “banking dates back to 15th century medieval Italy”, the actual act of money-lending and money-changing is as
Google Google is bringing SMS to the web Google is bringing texting to the web. It is making texting richer with more chat-like features like sending GIFs. This can potentially disrupt the IM market, a place where Facebook is King with many chat apps like Whatsapp and Messenger, as people find fewer uses for their chat apps.
Review First impressions on UBA's FB ChatBot "In the future Banking will be needed but Banks will not" is a phrase popularly attributed to Tech Billionaire, Bill Gates. As a result, Banks have been seeking ways to "innovate or die". One of such examples is the use of social media app, FB as a banking interface by UBA.
Opinion Nigerian Developers lament their Visa ordeals "The only crime I remember committing is being a Nigerian", laments Developer Christian. Nigeria's bad reputation for internet fraud is harming the career prospects of her Youth invested in the world of IT and Software Development.
Spotlight Meet GATE Academy Educational facilities in Nigeria have been overburdened by the strong population growth. Formal education has proven expensive to the majority of Nigerians living below the poverty line. Can semi-formal ed. institutions like GATE Academy improve the level of literacy in the country?
