Megan Smith and her team from Google X are visiting Nigeria this week and meeting up with Tech Start -ups at the Idea Hub this Friday to explore opportunities around the ecosystem in Africa. Megan Smith, who is the Vice President at Google X will also use the opportunity to support ideas from…
It is no longer news that the rate of unemployment in Nigeria is alarming, what interests me is to know the several initiatives being taken by private organizations to mitigate this hydra-headed problem of unemployment in our society. And so at a well-attended press event in Lagos last week, Phillips Consulting Limited, a leading…
GSK and Save the Children recently announced the launch of their second annual $1million Healthcare Innovation Award at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health meeting in South Africa. The award was established to identify and reward innovations in healthcare that have proven successful in reducing child deaths in developing countries. From the 27…
Young Women who are aspiring Entrepreneurs in Africa can leverage the opportunity with the She Leads Africa’s Entrepreneur Showcase.She Leads Africa’s Entrepreneur Showcase is a platform that introduces the continent’s most promising female entrepreneurs to investors, accelerators, and mentors looking to invest in the next generation of African talent.We are looking for early…
WIN $500 a month for one year, one lap top, one intercontinental flight ticket to a destination of your choice and more African Press Organization(APO), the sole press release wire in Africa and the global leader in media relations relating to Africa, announced recently that entry is now open for the 2014 APO Media…
As the impact of technology is becoming very significant and also relevant in different aspects of life in Africa, Nigeria’s foremost technology innovation centre, Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) through their Social Change Lab has launched TechSQUAD. According to the brief made available to us recently, TechSQUAD is a network of highly skilled and professional software developers, designers and…
We just got this interesting report from Africa Press Organisation that Arthur Zang, 26, from Cameroon who has invented what is believed to be Africa’s first medical tablet, that will allow health-care workers in rural areas to send the results of cardiac tests to heart specialists via a mobile-phone connection has won the…
Last week I met the Founder of LEAP Africa,Mrs.Ndidi Nwuneli at the Seed Star World Startup Competition in Lagos,She did encourage the young people at that event to be involved in the LEAP Africa’s social Innvoator’s Award.And am also encouraging you to be part of it. Social Innovators Programme and Awards is an enhancement of LEAP’s…
As a Nigerian living in Lagos, I find it very interesting to read how people from other parts of the world describe their first experience in Lagos. No matter how they feel at first, every one of them will eventually want to revisit Lagos again and again. Nellie’s experience and thoughts about Nigeria and the…
‘Education is the key to everything”-Nelson Mandela Participants at the last eLearning Africa Conference in Kampala,Uganda, were in no doubt, however, that it is the combination of education and information technology that is critical to Africa’s future. Stanley Simataa,Namibia’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology, told a special meeting of ministers of education and…
The Secretary General of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)Council and the Chairman of Africa.com announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a goal of supporting socio-economic development on the African continent. Under the MOU, the two parties will support one another’s efforts in ensuring that Africa’s…
Finally as the ecommerce frenzy in the emerging markets like Nigeria is booming ,PayPal, a leading global payments provider, announced plans to introduce services into 10 new markets including Nigeria. As services go live, the people of Belarus, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Macedonia, Moldova,Monaco, Montenegro, Nigeria, Paraguay, and Zimbabwe will be able to register…
News from WACREN website says that Boubakar Barry has won the 2014 Network Information & Infrastructure (NII) Service Award. Dr Barry who comes from Senegal won the award for his commitment to capacity building and Internet development in Africa including his work in supporting the emergence and the strengthening of several research and education networks in…
Evernote, the company that is helping the world remember everything, is joining forces with the African Technology Foundation (ATF) to find Africa’s hottest homegrown talent in app design and development. Starting today, the ATF and Evernote will kick off their search to find and showcase the top African applications that integrate with the…
I was in a café in Barcelona when I heard the news: Facebook acquires Whatsapp for $19b! The fact that the acquisition story circulated within the same news cycle as the civil unrest in Ukraine was weirdly ironic. Jan Koum, the Ukrainian founder of Whatsapp, had successfully negotiated an acquisition deal with net…
This article was first published on the Seed Stars World Blog The story of Nigeria’s economic revolution is gradually unfolding as Nigeria recently becomes the largest economy in Africa and the 24th biggest economy in the world. It is very surprising and in fact unique to see a lot of foreign…
The Middle East and Africa PC market (including Turkey) is tipped to end a dismal run of seven consecutive quarters of year-on-year declines in Q2 2014 by posting long-awaited growth of 3.2%, according to the latest forecasts from research and advisory services firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The recently compiled results for Q1…
After 3 years IBM is delighted to report that their IBM Global Entrepreneurial Initiative has been gaining significant momentum in the region.The goal of the initiative has been to build relationships with quality Startups to help accelerate these partners to market quickly and cost effectively with a sustainable and profitable model. All this success…
Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE), on behalf of the NNPC/NAE/OANDO PSC, is committed to the training and development of manpower as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.In pursuance of this, NAE invites applications from suitably qualified and interested Nigerian graduates for the 2014/2015 Post Graduate Scholarship Award Scheme. The award is in…
Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, has today revealed the scale of the region’s ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling the past year. The June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report shows that in 2014 phone users accessed 76,000 TB (terabyte) of data per month, double the 2013 figure…
Intel Corporation has restated commitment to modern teaching and learning techniques with investment in electronic educational resources to encourage the youths get access to quality education in a pleasant manner. The company announced this at the 4th Edition of the Education Network Conference 2014 (EduNet) tagged “Fostering Technology Entrepreneurship in Nigerian Universities, “held at the…
Watching the rate of growth, adoption and competition of Internet business and ecommerce in Nigeria and in Africa, it really leaves one with keen interest embedded with huge opportunities that can transform the economic development in the region. The success stories of Internet companies under the Africa Internet Holding is one worthy of…
The list of notable speakers for the 2014 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable have continued to increase with the latest being the co-chairman, Nigeria National Broadband Council, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe. Just as the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has accepted to declare the event…
Intent on providing cutting edge banking services to its customers round the clock, leading retail bank, Diamond Bank PLC has announced the upgrade of its mobile-based banking application –the Diamond Mobile app. With this upgrade, subscribers of the mobile app can carry out more banking transactions beyond funds transfers and bills payment…
The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) plc, Mr. Austin Okere has been named as the chairman of the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) 2014. Confirming this development, the chairperson of the Local Multi-stakeholders Advisory Group (LMAG) of the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum, Mrs. Mary Uduma, said that Mr….
There are a lot of reasons to attend this year’s Mobile Web West Africa holding next week from 13-16 May.One of such reasons is that Tomi Ahonen, the man measured by Forbes as the world’s most influential expert in mobile, will be taking to the stage and sharing his esteemed vision of the future of mobile at the…
We are happy to partner with the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation on the Commonwealth Broadband Africa Forum 2014 which will focus on Broadband for Accelerated Growth In Africa. The Commonwealth Broadband Africa Forum 2014 is the evolution of the Connecting Rural Communities series of events that the CTO ran successfully for seven years. The theme…
With a lot of events happening in the tech ecosystem in West Africa and Lagos in particular,we will find time to honour this special invitation to attend the inaugural IDC CIO Summit for West Africa. The IDC CIO Summit is meant, to collaborate, connect, and inspire the CIO’s in the region as we explore…
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation being instituted by the Royal Academy of Engineering,London, is now open for applications.The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation which is in its inaugural edition aims to stimulate, celebrate and reward innovation and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Prize encourages ambitious and talented sub-Saharan African engineers from…
With the introduction of GSM in Nigeria few years ago, the use of Mobile phones quickly became very big in the country. Its socio-economic impact on the lives of Nigerians has been very significant. As this growth continues exponentially, trends around mobiles began to emerge. Mobile Web is getting so big in the…