News Why OPay is doubling down on 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 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.
Events Ready to Step Up? Register for #DevFest Lagos 2019 #DevFest Lagos 2019 will be taking place at The Grand Atrium, Lekki, on November 2, 2019.
News What to make of Fluterwave's major partnerships So far in 2019, Flutterwave has announced four major partnerships with Visa, Alipay, Pay Attitude and Binance.
News PayJoy partners Transsion, others to provide instalment payment plans for smartphones PayJoy has signed an agreement with Transsion Group, Alcatel Mobile, Hisense and D.Light via Skyworth to enable instalment payment plans for their devices.
News Kayode Adegbola ends six months stint at Gokada to start Golborne Road Advisory Kayode Adegbola ends six months stint at Gokada to start his own venture, Golborne Road Advisory.
News Five startups representing Nigeria at the Regional Finals of Innovating Justice Challenge HiiL Innovating Justice Challenge West Africa Regional finalists include five Nigerian startups and enterprises, namely, Africlaim, Bankly, Community Peace Initiative, Flemer Project Initiative and Vesicash.
News Versecom, five others launch low-cost co-working space and hub initiative The Energy Hub, first of the five hubs to be launched under the low-cost hub initiative, will be open to everyone for as low as ₦1,000/day.
News CcHUB partners TASUED to launch EdTech Centre of Excellence CcHUB partners TASUED to launch an EdTech Centre of Excellence, a home for startups adopting innovative ideas to solving problems in education.
News Where are the "made in Africa" smartphones? There are at least seven 'made in Africa' smartphone brands, but Transsion Holdings, a Chinese company, remains the top smartphone seller in Africa.
News Uber is testing the waters in Lagos with UberBOAT Now that UberBOAT is here, should Gokada's boat service, Gboat, be worried?
Concatenate Two days to #Concatenate2019 The second edition of Concatenate Conference holds in Nigeria and Kenya from October 9-16, 2019.
Press release Facebook, Teleperformance launch first Small Business Group Centre in Lagos Facebook partners Teleperformance to launch Small Business Group Operations Centre in Lagos. The centre will train small business owners in Nigeria and across the SSA on how to use social media to boost their business.
Opinion #StopRobbingUs—Ketu, Ogudu, others identified as SARS hotspots in Lagos A timeline of SARS brutality, as the Nigerian tech community launch #StopRobbingUs campaign.
News Meet the six Nigerian women selected for the US 2019 TechWomen Programme These six Nigerians join the list of 28 emerging leaders that have participated in the TechWomen programme since 2013.
