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 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.
Spotlight 28 Tech Communities for developers, designers and product managers 28 Tech Communities for developers, designers 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
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 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.
Opinion How to enable Google's 'iMessage for Android' on your smartphone Enabling "iMessage for Android" on your device takes less than 5 minutes with these steps.
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 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 Uber is testing the waters in Lagos with UberBOAT Now that UberBOAT is here, should Gokada's boat service, Gboat, be worried?
Opinion #StopRobbingUs "It is illegal. Tell them to stop" Would the government take any immediate targeted action to stop the attack against techies?
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 Why CCHUB acquired Kenya's innovation hub, iHUB A first in the African tech ecosystem, Nigeria's foremost innovation centre acquires iHUB, Nairobi-based innovation hub.
Opinion Addressing Internet Governance Issues in Nigeria As the internet pervades every area of human life, internet governance has become a topical issue across the world. But in Nigeria, not many people are interested in the conversation.
Education Splatt.ng and uLesson, two Edtech startups revolutionizing learning for Nigerian teenagers Global edtech spend is projected to reach $252 billion by 2020. Nigeria (and Africa) can have a slice of that cake, with the increase in mobile and internet penetration, as well as the creation of local content.
Spotlight Meet the young Nigerians visualising Nigeria's Election data—Stears Stears Election centre reveals that with the current INEC-announced results, APC and PDP account for 97% of the Presidential votes with APC in the lead.
Betting Inside Nigeria's ₦5-billion-daily Betting industry A multi-part series about the influence of gambling and betting in Nigeria. We examine the possibility of a Gambling disorder among youths in the country.
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?
