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11 months ago

“PayAsYouKnow”: Financial Services Innovators (FSI) Holds First Hackathon

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Financial Services Innovators (FSI), a not-for-profit organisation with trustees from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System Plc., Sterling Bank Plc. and the Fintech community will on the 5th and 6th of March 2020, at NG_Hub Y

11 months ago

Germany wants to make social media firms report illegal content to police

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A proposed law that will soon go before parliament would fine tech giants for failing to report problems.

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Android 11 preview adds privacy and under-the-hood upgrades

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Google will show off the mobile software in more detail at its developer conference in May.

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Fortnite teases Chapter 2 season 2 with cryptic messages

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Is Agent Meowsicles coming?

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Android apps that want background location data will need Google Play approv

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The new Google Play policy will consider whether having that background location data is really necessary for each app.

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2020 Vision: The Connect Nigeria Business Fair To Hold 6th & 7th March 2020

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Africa is in a frantic race to end poverty and ensure that her people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030 via the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Nigeria, like most African countries, is tasked to fast-track progress in achieving a socio-e

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Nigerian fintech, Aella Credit is pivoting after raising $10 million

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Nigerian fintech, Aella Credit has raised a new round of funding as it plans to scale its financial solutions. The microlending company announced a $10 million debt funding from Singapore-based HQ Financial Group (HQF).

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Inside the bold plan at Decagon to raise 10,000 software engineers in six-month batches

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The ‘deca’ in Decagon signals a ten-year ambition to make Nigeria a globally envied hub for software engineering talent. It’s neither novel nor disruptive as far as mission statements go. Founded in 2018, the tech talent development company “is pr

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Chinese-owned PalmPay and an aggressive growth strategy for Nigeria

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As PalmPay exited beta stage, it made a splashy entrance into the Nigerian fintech space with its funding news. What is its plan for the Nigerian market?

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How Endeavor Nigeria is trying to help high-impact entrepreneurs scale

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At the Endeavor Nigeria annual gathering in January, Halima Aliko Dangote walks in with her father who is introduced to a group of Flutterwave volunteers from MIT Sloan. Doing the honours is Bolaji Balogun, a 90’s veteran of First City Monument Bank, an

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Gokada partners with Jumia on food deliveries

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Gokada has partnered with Jumia to fulfil deliveries for Jumia Food. Some bikers have been cited since last weekend with delivery boxes branded as “Jumia Food.”

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Daystar Power joins Flutterwave, Paga as Endeavor Nigeria companies

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Christian Wessels and Jasper Graf von Hardenberg, the co-founders of Nigerian renewable energy startup Daystar Power, have joined Endeavor Nigeria’s network of entrepreneurs. This comes after Daystar secured $4 million in debt financing from SunFunder,

11 months ago

The multifaceted implications of a ban on Okada and tricycles in Lagos

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There are three things I never joke with: God, family and Lagos traffic. I dread the Lagos traffic. But I would have thought that in the face of innovation and modernisation, traffic in Lagos wouldn’t get any worse. I was wrong.

11 months ago

“Abidjan is a Lagos that works” – A Nigerian living in Côte d’Ivoire

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This week, we spoke to a *Ruz, a Nigerian who has made Côte d’Ivoire home but hasn’t cut Lagos off completely. Every week, I write about Nigeria’s experience in another country, but my surprise is always the same when I find another country

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Terragon launches proprietary software for Africa, partners top brewer

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Terragon, a leading data analytics, and marketing cloud company has launched first-of-its’s-kind customer data software in Africa and partners top brewer in Nigeria, to deliver personalized brand experiences to customers. Through an aggregation of onlin

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TECNO Picks Campus Reps in the Spark 4 Talent Hunt Grand Finale

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Young people are always included in TECNO’s brand story as seen by the six people who have been awarded 1 Million Naira in TECNO’s Light Up Your Dream campaign, especially in the last three editions. In the recent scholarship award during the 2019 Aca

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Sanofi Announces AfricaTech 2020 Challenge, Calls for Entries.

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Sanofi, a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide, is calling on technology entrepreneurs and startups in Nigeria to participate in its 2020 AfricaTech Challenge. AfricaTech is a lab dedicated by Sanofi

11 months ago

Sterling Bank Coders Island Mission: Are You up to the Challenge?

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Do you speak, sleep and eat in code? Do you have the skill set of a top-notch developer? Are you talented in the art of coding with a passion to help build the future in banking with ideas for disruptive products and services? Then this might just be for

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