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7 days ago25% of visitors are from mobile devices - Jumia
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9 days agoNigeria’s Innovation Camps for students begin
More than 55 Nigerian high school pupils have attended the first Junior Achievement Young Enterprise for Science, Technology, Engineering (more)
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9 days agoDecoded launched to bring lyrics to Africans
A new media platform called Decoded has been launched with the goal of actively engaging the continent’s music community.
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12 days agoQ&A: Dapo Adekola discusses e-commerce in Nigeria
Dapo Adekola, a director at BrandNubians, Nigeria’s largest online clothing store, spoke to HumanIPO about the e-commerce scene in the (more)
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12 days agoNigerian businesses beginning to embrace online advertising
A Google chief has said online advertising is on the rise in Nigeria as businesses begin to wake up to the benefits, with Adwords allowing (more)
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13 days agoBrandNubians supports Africa’s SMEs with Shopistry.com.ng
BrandNubians has launched Shopistry.com.ng, an online business unit for its e-commerce software, aiming to support small and medium-sized (more)
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15 days agoKonga.com launches SMS2ORDER platform for offline transactions
Nigeria’s online megastore Konga.com has launched a new platform allowing customers to access the shop without an internet connection, by (more)
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15 days agoExpert identifies major challenges facing e-commerce in West Africa
An e-commerce expert has blamed low online trust, mainstream market adoption and pan-African payment gateway integration as some of the (more)
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16 days agoTwo years before .ng domain price comes down - Whogohost
The co-founder of Whogohost, a gold certified Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) accredited domain registrar, has said the (more)
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19 days agoNigeria awards US$40 million to Israeli cyber security firm
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is reported to have boosted its intelligence and national security with the award of a US$40 (more)
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21 days agoMorpheus launches buyam.com.ng e-commerce platform in Nigeria
A new e-commerce platform, buyam.com.ng has been launched in Lagos by Morpheus Online Business Services, offering Nigerian stores the (more)
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23 days ago‘Nigerian’ spammers exploit Chavez death
Latin Americans’ fraud alert has been raised as bulk spam mailings about the investments of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez began (more)
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27 days agoInsufficient bandwidth responsible for African underdevelopment – Ericsson
Insufficient bandwidth penetration in Africa has been blamed for Africa’s underdevelopment.
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27 days agoQ&A: NiRA chief discusses the .ng domains now available in Nigeria
.ng domains are now available for purchase, with prices ten times higher than .biz and .org domains. HumanIPO sat down with Ope Odusan, (more)
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27 days agoPassnownow to launch Java and Symbian apps
Passnownow has told HumanIPO the Nigerian online educational community will launch apps for Java and Symbian based devices before this (more)
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28 days agoRise Networks piques Nigerian students’ interest in education with free online community
Toyosi Akerele, founder of Rise Networks, has told HumanIPO they launched Passnownow.com after realising the best way to stimulate Nigerian (more)
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28 days agoMinister launches Nigerian government service portal in Abuja
Omobola Johnson, Nigeria’s communication technology minister, has officially launched the Nigerian government service portal in Abuja as (more)
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29 days agoNiRA partners AFRINIC and NCC on cyber security in Nigeria
The Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has entered into partnership with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and (more)
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29 days agoInternet use impacts positively on social-economic activities in Africa
A new report commissioned by Google has revealed the internet positively affects social-economic activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, having (more)
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29 days agoNiRA head justifies high cost of .ng domain registration
Ope Odusan, chief operating officer of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), has told HumanIPO the organisation supports (more)
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29 days agoNigeria set to launch .ng second level domains
Website domain registrars in Nigeria have expressed their readiness to officially commence the sale of .ng domain names from today (more)
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1 month agoGTBank launches Facebook banking services
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has launched a social media banking service that allows individuals to perform some activities from their (more)
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1 month agoNigerian govt service portal set to be launched next week
The Federal Government of Nigeria’s service portal will be launched next week in a bid to get government online and increase (more)
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1 month agoKonga.com set to launch Konga Mall
Nigeria’s online shopping website Konga.com has launched Konga Mall, hoping the innovation will revolutionise e-commerce in the West (more)
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1 month agoNigeria’s CAC improves efficiency and integrity with ICT
The registrar-general of Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Bello Mahmud, has said the commission is beginning to benefit from (more)
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1 month agoEtisalat launches metro fibre network in Nigerian capital
Network operator Etisalat has launched its metro fibre network in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja, as it bids to provide high speed (more)
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1 month agoNigerian IT company deploys latest security software
Reliance Infosystems has launched the Cyberoam Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliance, which can replace traditional firewalls in (more)
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1 month agoGoogle improves its Maps service for Africa
Google has announced improvements to its Google Maps service specifically aimed at Africa, which include many more detailed maps for more (more)
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1 month agoExpert enjoins Nigerian SMEs to gain visibility and growth with e-channels
An expert has advised owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to tap into e-channels to expand their businesses, saying digital (more)
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1 month agoNigeria is still a haven of cyber criminals – national security adviser
Nigeria’s national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, has said despite all the efforts of the nation’s various agencies in tackling (more)
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1 month agoNITDA promotes sustainable and secure online transactions in Nigeria with PKI
Nigeria’s National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced its readiness to introduce Public Key (more)
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1 month agoGrowing African membership of online community addressing complex global health problems
The coordinator of HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015), a global campaign working for a future where people are no longer (more)
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1 month agoMicrosoft Office 2013 now available in Nigeria
Nigeria is the first African country to have Office 2013 available in its market, barely two months after it was officially made public.
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1 month agoNigeria’s communications minister launches Naijacloud training sessions
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1 month agoNigComSat partners Belgian company on the provision of Ka-Band broadband services
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1 month agoQ&A: KasiMP3 founder Mokgethwa Mapaya
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1 month agoHackers pull down four government websites in Nigeria
A group of hackers called Pak Cyber Eaglez have successfully hacked the website of the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Ministry in addition three (more)
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Olakunle Ogungbamila, chief executive of Kuluya Limited, has told HumanIPO the online games company will launch its new website by the end (more)
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1 month agoKuluya.com launches "Oga at the top" game
In addition to more than seven million Google search results, tweets, posts, songs and t-shirts, the "Oga at the top" gaffe made by the (more)
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A study exposing the world’s most infamous net fraud spots revealed more than 62 per cent of Nigeria’s email is categorised as spam.
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1 month agoEventsrail eases events registration and ticket purchase with mobile API platform
A mobile website that allows Nigerian event organisers to directly sell tickets has been launched by Eventsrail Limited, a major provider (more)
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2 month agoNigerian ecommerce site Jumia lands US$26 million investment
Jumia, a leading online retailer in Nigeria, has received an investment of US$26 million from the Summit Partners, in a move that will see (more)
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2 month agoPaid-to-blog website 10KWEB expands into West Africa
Blogging company 10KWEB has extended its presence into Burkina Faso, expanding its wings further into West Africa.
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2 month agoExpert blames middlemen, product supply chain for high cost of IT gadgets in Nigeria
An expert in e-commerce has blamed the high costs of gadgets in Nigeria on the large number of middlemen that handle a product before it (more)
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2 month agoNigeria not in a position to fight cybercrime, says NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has admitted the country is not in a position to fight cybercrime, as the necessary laws on (more)
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2 month agoHellofood makes online food ordering possible in Nigeria
Hellofood has made it possible for Nigerians to order food online, a common service in other parts of the world but one no investor was (more)
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Nigeria’s minister for communications technology Omobola Johnson has revealed the Presidential Committee on Broadband Road map has (more)
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2 month agoACE cable advances Senegalese communications market
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