This week, we had a long ride to Iju Ota in Ogun State, to feature the Wilson’s Lemonade Juice on the Startup Show. Ever since we started the “Go There” episodes, it has never been this adventurous, first the long ride, the roads, the traffic, then the walk through the factory, this would be the…
Unveiled today is #FASTAfrica, a new campaign to demand Internet that is faster, more accessible, and affordable for all Africans before 2020. The message is that development, and therefore African lives and futures,depends on it. Campaign events will be held during the first week of May across more than 30 African countries, with results to…
The FIRE Africa Grants will provide four Grants of up to US$25,000 each for projects aligned with one of the following categories. This Grant is for projects that will be implemented within a 12-16 month period. 2016 Funding Categories Technical Innovation Innovative projects that use technical concepts and solutions related to Internet development, security and access. This category includes…
This week, the Startup Show features one of the taxi app in Lagos, Afrocab Afro is a taxi app startup that connects passengers directly with taxi drivers allowing customers to book with certainty every time Now, this is the advantage our startup of the week brings that people don’t know – unlike other people in…
Distributed Antenna System(DAS) is a network of antennas spaced apart from each other but connected to a common source. A DAS contains all the elements of a cell site and can convey both wireless data and voice signals.
Facebook F8 developer conference , held in San Francisco on 12 and 13 April, that the company partnered with many African developers to launch products for the global market. Facebook, with its global reach and scale, is including African developers in its beta testing programme for the launch of new global products and features as…
Global electronic payment company, Visa recently organized and hosted technology correspondents and bloggers in Lagos.
The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability(RIIS) is happy to announce an Open Innovation Challenge to disrupt online recruitment in Africa.According to Davis Cook,CEO RIIS,South Africa “This is a strategic opportunity to tap into the global online recruitment market said to be worth some $10b.This Open Innovation challenge focuses on identifying and supporting novel and disruptive…
Mobile West Africa has confirmed that its 2016 conference, taking place in Lagos on 20th & 21st April, will feature its strongest ever speaker line-up. Representatives from Jumia, Huawei, Uber, Opera, iROKO Partners and Google are set to deliver presentations to confirmed delegates from companies including Konga, Wikimedia Foundation, Grant Thornton, Promasidor and Ringier Nigeria….
Remember “The Break Digit Show”? we have evolved to the Startup Show, this is because we have come to love the part of showcasing Startups in Africa on the two tv network and feel it will be great to name the show to resonate with what it is doing, The Startup Show will now air…
Editor’s note:This is a text from Nigeria Telecoms Advisory Council inaugural Meeting presented by Titi Omo-Ettu on the 8th April,2016. Two reasons informed this contribution to on-going industry development initiatives: One is that there has been a wait-and-see attitude by industry players in the communication technology industry and this may be a convenient time that specific…
Elon Musk’s Rocket and Spacecraft company SpaceX yesterday recorded another great feat by successfully landing a rocket on a drone ship. See the rest of the story and the video from space.com website Additional report from Techcrunch
A new entrant into the top mobile market in Africa and around the world -Nigeria is Ntel as they announce a roll out of commercial 4G/LTE Mobile Telephone services across Nigeria.In a competitive market like Nigeria where you have telecommunications giants like MTN,Etisalat,Glo and Airtel one would think that there is no space for a…
The excitement that lit her face when I gave her the package was nothing compared to the exhilaration when she unwrapped it. Even though she had tried to hide it from me, I knew she really needed a phone and so I got one. I watched, a little proud of myself as she inspected the…
Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila was on Saturday, 19th March 2016 announced as the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone writer to…
The 2016 shortlisted finalists for the West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS), the first truly West African technology awards to recognise the region’s leading mobile and tech companies, have been announced . According to the organizers,An overwhelming response drew submissions from 10 countries across 3 continents. Entrants (and finalists) run the gamut from exciting mobile industry…
Summit on Data Centre Investment in Africa Set to Hold in June
Smartphones have opened up the floodgates for startup enthusiasts by providing business platform at competitive investment. This breed of smart entrepreneurs are redefining the word ‘business’ by cashing on the rich mobile technology fused with application development for business solutions. Consider this startup statistics in past two years as quoted by Kauffman Index “the 2015…
IDC Mobile Spending Guide Shows Annual Spending on Mobility Across Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) Expected to Reach $185 billion by 2019
More than 1200 international education and technology experts, advisers and investors will gather in Cairo in May to discuss how to turn the African Union’s vision of a “transformed continent” into reality. They will look at how developments in technology could enable education and training to boost growth and transform the lives and prospects of…
Following anticipations and speculations, the new phone from Gionee was officially unveiled in Nigeria this morning. Despite its initial meeting with its consumers, it was love at first sight. On the various mini stages, the P5 mini in all its colours elicited sparkles of admiration. All wanted a feel of the sleek paragon of technology…
The Gionee P5 mini is the new definition and epitome of simplicity and style.
Ken Nwogbo Joins TechTrendsng.com as Contributing Editor
Sponsored Post Recently, mobile phone manufacturing giant, Gionee, released its newest model into the Nigerian Market. The M5 Mini, which is just four weeks old,is fast becoming a favorite in the country. It will take a while to get over its beautiful look and amazing performance, but it will take forever to get over its…
Are You a Mobile Innovators in West Africa, Enter for the West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS) 2016
The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has just released the 2015-16 edition of its annual Affordability Report which basically shows that without immediate and urgent action, the world will miss the newly agreed global goal of universal Internet access by 2020. This is the key finding of the Alliance for Affordable Internet’s (A4AI’s) 2015-16 Affordability Report, released today. Analysis…
Several people have contributed greatly to the development of Information and Communications Technology in Africa.One of such men is Leo Stan Ekeh,the Chairman of Zinox Technologies Group.Today we join many to celebrate the achievements of Leo Stan Ekeh, an African ICT Icon on his 60th birthday. Interestingly not many people know about him. Leonard Nnamdi…
There is a difference between the phone about to be launched and one that has been bought. Before launch, a phone can be a bit too proud and boastful but after spending one week with its buyer, it will be more humble and sincere. The about-to-be-launched phone can hide behind glossy images, flowery language and…
MTN, in partnership with the MTN Solution Space and Jumia, are proud to announce the launch of the MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge powered by Jumia. The Pan-African competition launching today, will be the first of its kind in Africa, bringing together over 1000 entrepreneurs, students and investors, to collaborate on ways to amplify and consolidate the…
Facebook hosted a Women’s Safety round table in Kenya on February 10 with participants from NGOs, academia, women’s rights groups, and safety organisations from Kenya and across Sub-Saharan Africa to highlight how the community can work together to create a harassment-free online environment where everyone can feel safe to share and interact.