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Fri, November 21st, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigerian Communications Commission bans teleco
Nigeria’s telecoms industry’s regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced a clampdown on Owntel Communications. Aording to the NCC, the company was providing telecommunications services without an operational license. → Read more
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Fri, November 21st, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
ICT to be largest contributor to Nigeria’s GDP by 2020 – Johnson
Omobola Johnson, Nigeria's minister of communication technology Omobola Johnson has predicted ICT would be the highest contributor to Nigeria's GDP by 2020. She said this at the just concluded eNigeria 2014. → Read more
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Thu, November 20th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Vodafone, Afrimax partner to provide voice and data services in Uganda
Telecoms company Vodafone has announced a partnership with broadband company Afrimax to provide voice and data services in Uganda. → Read more
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Thu, November 20th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
Mobile subscribers in Africa set to hit one billion – Ericsson
The latest Ericsson Mobility Report launched yesterday (Wednesday) revealed that proliferation of mobile technology continues to grow at a rapid pace. According to the report, Africa has topped 880 million in mobile subscriptions for Q3 2014, whilst 90 per cent of the world's population over six years old is predicted to have a mobile phone by 2020. → Read more
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Thu, November 20th, 11:01 · Paul Adepoju
Demand for iPhone 6 and 6s in Kenya higher than supply – operators
Mobile operators and retailers in Kenya have revealed that demand for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s are more than what Apple is supplying to the country. → Read more
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Mon, November 17th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
MTN, others promise to improve QoS
Wale Goodluck, Corporate Service Executive for MTN Nigeria has announced the network's commitment towards improving its quality of service (QoS). He said this at the recently held 76th Telecoms Consumer Parliament organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in Lagos. → Read more
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Mon, November 17th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
Online privacy is the new luxury – Victoria Milan
Sigurd Vedal, founder and CEO of Victoria Milan has described online privacy as the new luxury. Vedal said this while commenting on the report of a survey that revealed over 80% of individuals seeking extramarital affairs are afraid that their device's data will end up in the wrong hands. → Read more
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Mon, November 17th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Internet threatens scholarship – Nobel laureate
Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has warned that continual reliance on the internet poses great threat to scholarship. He said this while delivering the 3rd annual Zik Lecture at Nigeria's Nnamdi Azikiwe University. → Read more
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Mon, November 17th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
New crowdfunding platform launched in Uganda
A new crowdfunding funding called Akabbo has been launched in Uganda, the objective for the platform is to help individuals and entrepreneurs to raise money for specific causes, activities, ideas and/or events. → Read more
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Fri, November 14th, 16:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Lola Olusola, Founder, Ella.ng
As experts rightly predicted, the next phase of ecommerce in Nigeria would be dominated by companies specialising in specific lines of products. Ella.ng is one of such and is focusing on fashion for middle class businesswomen in Lagos and across the country. Lola Olusola, Founder of the startup spoke to HumanIPO on the company that has better eyes for fashion that ecommerce giants Jumia and Konga. → Read more
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Fri, November 14th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Microsoft, Skrill, operators to launch new portal
Microsoft through its 4Afrika initiative is partnering with Skrill to launch a platform that would allow Africans to purchase products from lobal internet brands; they would also be able to access Microsoft products and educational contents. → Read more
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Fri, November 14th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
We have better eyes for fashion than Jumia and Konga – Ella.ng
Lola Olusola, Founder of Ella.ng a 440.ng startup that focuses on female fashion has said the one-year old platform is better positioned to cater for the fashion needs of Nigerian middle class businesswomen than e-commerce giants Konga and Jumia. → Read more
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Fri, November 14th, 10:01 · Paul Adepoju
Guest Post: African ICT must seize opportunity
In this guest post for HumanIPO, Ayanda Dlamini, Business Development Manager at LGR Telecommunications notes that as the next big frontier for market growth, Africa is rich with potential. But African businesses have been slow to capitalise on this, and stand to lose out to foreign players. → Read more
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Thu, November 13th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Organisers announce Lagos Startup Weekend entrepreneurial boot camp
Organisers have announced the second edition of Startup Weekend, a 54-hour entrepreneurial boot camp initiative, will hold from November 21 - 23 in Nigeria's commercial capital city of Lagos. → Read more
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Thu, November 13th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
MTN announces United Against Ebola initiative
Telecoms company MTN has announced it is launching United Against Ebola, a three-month long initiative that would involve the network's 219 million subscribers to raise funds for the fight against the Ebola virus disease. → Read more
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Thu, November 13th, 10:26 · Paul Adepoju
SimplePay, UBER partner to offer new users free rides
SimplePay has announced it is offering new UBER Lagos users two free rides. To get the free rides, SimplePay enjoins new users to click the “Get Uber” button in the latest version of the SimplePay web and mobile apps. → Read more
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Wed, November 12th, 15:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria’s Chief Justice commissions e-court
Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) has commissioned a case management system referred to as e-court that is aimed at improving the efficiency of the country's judiciary system. → Read more
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Wed, November 12th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Africa Data Challenge holds Nov 18
International non-governmental organisation (NGO) The Planet Earth Institute (PEI) today announced it would be hosting Africa Data Challenge on November 18 as part of their #ScienceAfrica UnConference, held at Impact HUB, Westminster. → Read more
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Wed, November 12th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
4G LTE launched in Rwanda
Rwanda has become the latest African country to join the 4G LTE network following the launch of the service in Kigali the country's capital. → Read more
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Wed, November 12th, 12:11 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria’s IroFit secures $600k funding
Nigerian internet-free mobile payment startup IroFit has secured US$600,000 seed funding from investors including Inventure, Solinor, and Rasheed Olaoluwa a Nigerian angel investor. → Read more
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