Jos To Host Nigeria’s Software Development Marathon: #HackJos 2016
The first hackathon in northern Nigeria was held on the 23rd and the 24th of March 2015 in the city of Jos, with 30 coders in 9 teams...
Singularity Investments Backs Sliide Airtime
Singularity Investments has announced it has invested an undisclosed sum into mobile advertising startup Sliide Airtime, to enable the...
Nigerian Hotel-Booking Startup HotelNowNow Adds New Features
Nigerian online hotel booking site HotelNowNow has introduced a range of new features and services as part of a brand relaunch. Launched...
Nigeria: Airtel And Lagos City Mall Partner On Free Wi-Fi
Airtel Nigeria has inked a partnership with Lagos City Mall in order to provide free Wi-Fi services to tenants and consumers at the mall....
Africa Roundup: More VC To Jumia’s Parent, Konga Launches Nigeria’s PayPal, M-Kopa Solar Lights Home
Just when we thought Africa Internet Group’s (AIG) 2016 VC haul couldn’t get larger, French mobile giant Orange invested $85 million....
Nigeria: Pangea Launches Voice-To-Internet APP In Nigeria For Those Who Want Internet Outside Data C
Every now and then something comes along that sounds so unlikely your first instinct is to check whether it’s April Fool’s day. American...
Design Thinking In The Nigerian Context
Chika Umeadi, one of the founders of tihub.org, published a blog post about Design Thinking In The Nigerian Context. tiphub is a...
iDea Hub And Jovago Are Organising A Chat On Customer Acquisition For Startups
iDea Hub and Jovago are planning a fireside chat on the topic “How to effectively acquire customers and strategies to retain them”. This...
Breaking: Konga Is Opening Up Kongapay To Merchants Outside Its Platform
Whoa. Konga wants a piece of the Nigerian payments cake. They have called it a “groundbreaking innovation and a first of its kind in...
OLX Now Has An Army Of ‘Champions’ To Help You Perform Safer Transactions
“We are finally becoming a serious company”. Those were the words of OLX CEO, Daan Sanders during their media briefing today, where they...
