E-Commerce

Jumia One Partners AXA Mansard to Distribute Money Market Fund

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, […]

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StartUps

Ghanaian Retail-Tech Startup Opens Nigerian Office, Targets East Africa

Ghanaian startup KudiGO, which builds solutions for the consumer retail industry, is opening its Nigerian office this month, while it is also making inroads in East African markets. Launched in November 2018, KudiGO provides an integrated, mobile-based retail, payments, accounting and analytics engine for the consumer retail industry in Ghana and Nigeria, helping over 1,000 […]

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E-Commerce

Verve Global Card, Discover Network Launch 1st International Transaction Amidst Cheers from Global Financial Leaders

Verve, a payments technology and card business in Africa, and Discover Global Network, the payments brand of Discover, has launched the Verve Global Card. Cardholders will now have the ability to use their Verve Global Cards on the Discover Global Network which provides acceptance in more than 190 countries and territories. This will expand Verve’s […]

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E-Commerce

Cars45 Unveils Dealer Live Auctions to Drive Offline Access

In a move geared at providing car dealers with best-in-class services and empowering them to have as many avenues as possible to buy and sell inventory, Nigeria’s technology-driven automotive platform, Cars45, has set up the Daily Dealer Live Auctions (DDLA) through its retail partner, Carsbazr. This initiative will ensure that dealers have offline access to […]

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StartUps

Lagos Base ed-tech Startup Launches AI-based Learning Chatbot

Lagos base ed-Tech Simbi has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that uses interactive tools to help students learn and evaluate themselves. The multi-subject SimbiBot aims to make learning fun, personalised and convenient, and does this using an interactive question and answer format. Co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) AbdulAzeez Ogunjobi told Disrupt Africa even […]

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E-Commerce

Mastercard Expands Digital Identity Commitment with Samsung Electronics

Mastercard is in collaborate with Samsung to explore and deliver a better way for people to conveniently and securely verify their digital identity on the mobile devices they use every day. People today are juggling multiple passwords and documents in an attempt to keep their identifying data and money safe. They have to repeatedly provide […]

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E-Commerce

WorldRemit Plans Expansion to Nigeria in Partnership with Paga

Digital money transfer company WorldRemit is considerably expanding its presence in Nigeria by joining forces with Paga, Nigeria’s first and mobile money company, for international digital money transfers. Using the WorldRemit app or website, the Nigerian diaspora living in over 50 countries will soon be able to send money quickly and securely to over 11 […]

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E-Commerce

Nigeria’s e-Payment Firm Upperlink to Provide TSA Solutions

The Upperlink Limited, an electronic payment service provider, has reiterated its readiness to provide state governments with an improved Treasury Single Account (TSA) solutions. This is just as the company recently won the 2019 edition of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Electronic Payment Incentive Scheme (EPIS) Efficiency Awards. A statement signed by the Managing Director/CEO […]

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Technology

Remittance of Naira for Daispora made Easy, an Firm unveils m-naira app

With the growing level of acceptance and also teething challenges of mobile payment and digital remittance Nigerians face on daily basis, BeepTool, an indigenous tech start-up based in Lagos, South West Nigeria has unveiled m-naira App, designed to bridge the gap in financial inclusion, mobile payment and remittance space. m-naira mobile app has been described […]

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Technology

Uber Drivers Now to Observe Compulsory Rest Period

Uber said it has introduced a number of measures aimed at enhancing the safety of its driver-partners and their passengers. Some of the measures are compulsory rest period for driver-partners registered on the Uber app, insurance policy and holding regular safety workshops. The General Manager, West Africa at Uber, Lola Kassim, gave the indication in […]

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