News TradeDepot highlights smaller packs and increased food spending as top trends that will shape Nigeria’s retail sector in 2021 According to TradeDepot, the impact of the pandemic, rising inflation, border closures, and other issues drove significant changes in behaviour for retailers, distributors, and manufacturers in 2020.
News Taxmingo launches to make tax filing easy for small businesses Taxmingo hopes to leverage its cloud-based tax management solution to help SMEs meet tax obligations and allow the SME operators to focus their energies on growing their businesses.
News Mondia launches on-demand entertainment platform, Monsooq, in Nigeria Monsooq’s unique time-based model allows consumers to buy entertainment time just as they would mobile airtime and use that time to consume any content.
Spotlight Nigeria at 60: Top sixty Nigerian tech entrepreneurs that deserve to be celebrated Benjamindada team is using this independence day to celebrate sixty entrepreneurs that we believe have done wonderfully.
News DevOps specialists earn big, top three for engineering roles—Stack Overflow DevOps specialist and Site Reliability Engineer are among the best-paying developer roles, according to a survey of 65,000 developers across 186 countries.
Opinion Why Nigerian youths want a career in tech; a roadmap to becoming a techie Nigerian youths want a career in tech, but they are not being prepared for it. Tertiary institutions have failed in their role in the Nigeria tech ecosystem.
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 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 [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.
News Nigeria should not send a man to space. It is pointless Space exploration is a worthy capital-intensive venture Nigeria must undertake, but experts believe sending a man to space is immaterial
News Right of Way charges have been baulking broadband penetration State governors disrespected the harmonization of RoW charges policy. The disregard span the lifetime of the first national broadband plan. What's the way forward?
Opinion How 5G technology will be commercially launched in Nigeria 5G technology is not for everybody. It would be used for specific cases. But there are two ways to roll out nationwide 5G network.
Spotlight Is it too late to invest in Bitcoin? Is it too late to invest in Bitcoin? When is the right time to buy or sell Bitcoin? Where to buy and sell Bitcoin? RedimIT answers all these queries.
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 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 Top 10 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.
Spotlight 32 Tech Communities for developers, designers and product managers 32 Tech Communities for developers, designers, digital and growth marketers, and product managers 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 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
