In order to continue to provide top-notch savings and investment solutions, AXA Mansard Investments, a leading multi-expert asset manager in Nigeria has partnered with Nigeria’s foremost all-in-one lifestyle, Jumia One to bring AXA Mansard’s Money Market Fund closer to the public and to make it easier to invest. In addition to AXA Mansard’s MyAXA app, […]
Read MoreAgri-tech startup Farmcrowdy has announced the acquisition of Best Foods (L&P) to offer a wider livestock production and processing solution to the meat market. The acquisition sees Farmcrowdy take a majority stake in Best Foods, an agribusiness group formed 16 years ago and focused on the processing of livestock and marketing of agricultural produce. It […]
Read MoreNational Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said it will soon start arresting and prosecuting Nigerians without National Identity Number (NIN). Kano State coordinator, NIMC, Muhammad Auwalu, who stated this also, warned that “The agency will impose three months’ imprisonment or N100,000 fine on any Nigerian arrested without being registered.” He said the main focus of the […]
Read MoreInfinix is repositioning to take a significant share in Nigeria’s smartphone market with its S5 recently launched. The brand has been at the fore of innovations, embracing the rapid technological advancement as well as the change in fashion trends. It has combined both elements to give us the best of both worlds. The S5 was […]
Read MoreWorldwide smartphone shipments decreased 1.1% yearly in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. While the past several years have delivered flat growth, 2019 volumes dropped to levels below annual shipment levels between 2015 and 2018. In total, companies shipped a […]
Read MoreStakeholders have again re-examined the impact type approved telecoms equipment on the quality of service at a workshop hoted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) sensitise and educate its licensees and other relevant stakeholders in the Nigerian telecom industry on the importance of type approval of telecoms equipment and other mobile and terminal devices. The […]
Read MoreThe Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) National Dialogue on Telecommunications and ICT Sector in Nigeria is expected change the narrative of the country’s development through the optimal utilization of digital resources in areas of the economy. A statement from ATCON announcing the event said that the growth across all the sectors of Nigeria’s […]
Read MoreThe Nigerian Government has noted that various data of citizens are being generated in the current digital economy being driven by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), managing such data and making the economy data-driven holds great potential for the country’s economic prosperity and enhancement of security architecture. And has therefore called for the effective […]
Read MoreZimbabwean AI expert William Sachiti, CEO of UK-based start-up Academy of Robotics published an open-source technology known as ‘Trees of Knowledge’ to improve access to education through smartphones in Africa. This free-to-develop technology enables a tree or rural landmark to broadcast a wifi connection providing access to a pre-loaded package of educational content. The wifi […]
Read MoreIn an age where internet connectivity is the bedrock for day to day activities such as banking, access to social and government services, have we considered what will happen if our internet connection suddenly goes down? This recently happened across West Africa last week due to two submarine cable cuts on both the West African […]
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