Co-Creation Hub Nigeria and The Tony Elumelu Foundation have signed a partnership to provide managed seed funding to up to 20 social technology start-ups in Nigeria in one year. The main purpose of the fund is to support experimentation and proof of concept of novel application of tech4social good in several aspects of the economy [...]
Last Thursday we were at Co-creation hub to observe the progress thus far and also to add to the design structure. Progress on the site is quite impressive and next month’s launch is right on track. About 10 of us attended, Myself, Yomi Adegboye of Mobility Nigeria, Jesse Oguntemehin, Emmanuel Oluwatosin, Mayowa Owolabi, Bosun Tijani, [...]
Web4Africa.net a pan-African web hosting company just acquired Alireta.com, a leading web hosting company in the country. With this acquisition, it’s the second in less than 5months after it acquired nairahost.com in December. Web4Africa could as well change it’s name to Afromazon becoming a Juggernaut in the hosting space across Africa. Details soon!
Paga, the pioneering mobile money platform in Nigeria, launched in February 2011 after receiving approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria. The company’s initial set of products are delivered to meet critical needs of the Nigerian public: ability to transfer money fast and reliably, pay bills, top-up airtime or pay merchants safely. Paga delivers these [...]
Am sure by now you must have heard about connectNigeria.com in one way or the other; the site has been in the lead position with a dynamic innovation in portal service in the country. Launched couple of years ago, the site has featured numerous celebrities in Nigeria on their ConnectNigeria TV while also havinabout 200 [...]
In our continuous effort to bring about credible elections this year, we will be holding another forum to discuss issues affecting INEC in the current registration exercise and ways to help them. We will also be discussing avenues to get more people registered! Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011 Time: 9:00am Networking + 10am Start Venue: [...]
Nigerian Constitution Blackberry App from a Nigerian Developer Today one of Nigeria smartest tech minds, Zubair Abubakar launched a blackberry app for Nigerian Constitution. Tell me if you have read the whole (or in part) constitution to be able to know your right…well while you ping on your BBM, you can as well learn about [...]
If you registered for Social Innovation Camp (SIcamp) today is the D-day, pack your bags, laptop and other stuffs and coders and innovators are set to do battle for the next 2 days in Lagos. The event is aimed at using technology to solve social problem. You can join us this evening! Camping essentials Time [...]
In what is second high-profile funding in Nigerian tech-related company this year, 2011 is really up to a good start! Just recently we wrote about Jobberman investment… this is the second in just 12days in 2011. By next week we should be able to get another funding worth talking about. Press Release Lagos, Nigeria. January [...]
Even if your business is ignoring the growth, possibilities of social media and is busy ensuring the ban on Social Media in the office is upheld, three categories of people are still using it – your clients/customers, your competitors and… wait for this… your employees still sneak ( maybe you should seize phones! lol). If [...]
