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Nigerians, prepare to pay more for your mobile data this December

News

Mobisola Atolagbe

29th November 2016

It’s all thanks to Big Brother NCC

Airtel Nigeria just got fined N5 million for violating a customer’s privacy

News

Mobisola Atolagbe

2nd November 2016

Someone just couldn’t take those text messages any longer

Nigerian telcos and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tale of “text STOP to 2442”

Technology

Osarumen Osamuyi

11th July 2016

You will be disturbed. Your Do-Not-Disturb will not save you.

Zuckerberg loves Jobberman, Facebook’s Free Basics launch in Nigeria, and other stories

Features, Internet

Osarumen Osamuyi

11th May 2016

Thanks to Airtel, Nigeria has become the 22nd country in Africa to be Free Basics-activated.

Ding, Ding, Ding: Airtel Nigeria just took a jab at MTN in this epic advert

Uncategorized

Osarumen Osamuyi

18th March 2016

Telco wars: may the farce be with you.

Ntel (FKA NITEL) just made its first VoLTE call ahead of its launch later this year

Government, Internet, News, Technology

Osarumen Osamuyi

26th February 2016

Is this the NITEL resurrection we’ve all been waiting for?

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Abubakar Idris

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Stable electricity generation and supply has been a challenge for many African countries for years. In 2014, only 45% of the continent’s 1.2 billion people had access to electricity. When North African countries were excluded, the figure dropped to less than 30%. In 2015, the 48 countries in Sub Saharan Africa produced around 80,000 megawatts […]

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Government, Research

Wole Olayinka

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Without urgent intervention, collective memories of Nigerian society that live in the national archives face certain extinction.

ATCG Kigali summit ends with recommendations for free trade implementation

AfCFTA, Business, ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, Events, Government

Aanu Adeoye

19th August 2019

The Africa Technology and Creative Group’s (ATCG) two-day meet-up in Kigali ended Friday with recommendations on the governance structure, definitive guide on the goals and objectives of the group in relation to the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). The ATCG is a coalition of technology and creative professionals who are devoted […]

Ezekwesili tasks African youths on making a success of AfCFTA as Kigali meet-up flags off

AfCFTA, Business, ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, Events, Government

Aanu Adeoye

15th August 2019

And so to Kigali. On Thursday, August 15, more than 80 people from 30 African countries gathered in the sleepy and well-manicured Rwandan capital to discuss how to create a framework to ensure the success of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). Industry leaders in the technology and creative ecosystems were in attendance on […]

Kobo360 raises US$ 30M, sets its sights on the $1.3 trillion intra-African trade opportunity

people, startups

Olanrewaju Odunowo

14th August 2019

Investors are betting on Kobo360’s ability to meet a rise in demand in cargo deliveries on the back of the newly-minted Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). But the startup’s ambitions will partly depend on the proper and effective implementation of the AfCFTA.

Questions arise over rules of origin in Africa’s free trade agreement

Business, Developers, ecosystem, Entrepreneurship, Government, Hardware, Internet, News

Abubakar Idris

14th August 2019

The AfCFTA faces many hurdles on its road to success and a crucial one is the rule governing rules of origin: an important but complicated topic that has implications for manufacturing businesses.

Gokada shuts down for two weeks in bid to reboot operations

Blog, Business, Internet, News, Ridesharing, Technology

Abubakar Idris

14th August 2019

Gokada, the popular bike hailing startup, has stopped all mobility operations for the next two weeks. In a Medium post, CEO Fahim Saleh, announced that the Gokada app will be temporarily disabled and all bikers will be off the road during this period.

The AfCFTA could spark Shenzhen-like transformation of Africa’s manufacturing

Business, Entrepreneurship, Government, Hardware, Technology

Kay Ugwuede

13th August 2019

Save Eritrea, the entire continent is now on board the AfCFTA ship and eager to see how this free trade area, now the largest in the world, will spur growth on the continent, especially for industries like manufacturing.