Month: July 2019

  Africa’s most preferred smartphone, Tecno, has rewarded the winners of its recently concluded Pouvoir 3 Power Extravaganza promo.   The lucky winners, who emerged after a keen competition, had their prizes presented to them at the company’s Abuja office.   The winners include Mr Adigan Ibrahim, who won the 1st prize– a 24/7 solar energy system; Mr Joseph, who won the 2nd prize – an inverter; Alhaji Mohammad, who won the 3rd prize – a Generator set; and Mr. Paul Malik, who also won a power generator set.  …

  Social Lender, a lending solution based on social reputation on mobile, online and social media platforms and major players in Nigerian fintech ecosystem, has been selected as a regional finalist for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC). The Nigerian fintech firm is the only Nigerian start-up that made the Africa regional finalist for the challenge.   Other finalists are Forasna, a Cairo-based platform for blue-collar jobs; Farmline, a Ghana based agrictech startup that distributes content to farmers and 10 other technology startups companies in Africa.…

  One of Nigeria’s mobile telecommunication outfits, 9mobile, has signed an agreement with Gravitas, a property and infrastructure development company, to provide exclusive telecommunications services on Gracefield Island.    The company, in a statement, said the deal demonstrated its commitment towards enabling the growth of Nigerian businesses. According to 9mobile, Gracefield Island will be a new integrated cosmopolitan smart city of 25,000 inhabitants initiated by Gravitas and built on purposely-reclaimed land within the fast-rising premium Lekki, Lagos shoreline. It added that exclusive Island would offer world-class utilities and services for…

    To bridge digital gap in the country, stakeholders in the ICT sector have called on the Federal Government to invest in infrastructure that will provide free public Wi-Fi across the country.   The stakeholders, who gathered at the 2019 Nigeria ICT Impact CEO Forum (NIICF), themed: ‘Connecting the Unconnected,’ said private operators had made some investments in this regard, but their efforts would not be enough to cover all cities in the country.   Specifically, the Chief Executive Officer, Bitflux Communications, Mr Lekan Balogun, said the private sector…