Lagos-based on-demand motorcycle taxi app Gokada has celebrated its first birthday with the launch of its new office in Ilupeju, which will house a state-of-the-art driver training school to train and verify up to 500 riders at a time. Gokada customers can order a motorbike ride through the company’s website, or by using its geo-location […]
Read MoreSierra Leone-based startup Mosabi is marrying ed-tech with fintech in order to extend financial services to traders operating in the grey market, and has seen strong adoption of its solution across six markets. Founded in 2016, Mosabi uses mobile technology to offer what it calls an “MBA for the rising billions” via its business-focused e-learning […]
Read MoreThe All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in Lagos State,Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday held an interactive session with traders in the Computer village, Ikeja, Lagos, South West Nigeria promising to give them loans to enhance thier business. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the interactive session was to offer a hand of […]
Read MoreNigerian adults and children in South Africa now have the opportunity to the captured in the National Identity Database (NIDB) for the issuance of the National Identification Number (NIN). A statement from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said it has flag off the diaspora enrolment in South Africa in collaboration with a licensed partner, […]
Read MoreThe Nigeria Rugby Football Federation has introduced ScrumIT, an online player registration and rugby administration software developed in South Africa by ENS Software as a service application. The software is internet based, and users can access it from any internet browser. General Manager, Mike Archer while announcing the development said that other users of scrumIT […]
Read MoreEricsson has been selected by Etisalat to deploy a 5G radio network in UAE. The network will become operational in Q1 2019, enabling Etisalat to continue the expansion of the 5G Network in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and position UAE at the fore front of 5G network deployment globally. The deal is part of […]
Read MoreAt Mobile World Congress, Orange partners with KaiOS Technologies and UNISOC to launch a phone with voice recognition at $20 in 16 countries in Africa and the Middle-East: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Jordan, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Sierra Leone and Tunisia. […]
Read MoreThe impact of artificial intelligence (AI) dominated discussions at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos – with delegates touching on everything from ethics to democratization and workforce re-skilling. While AI is primed to be the driving force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, its widespread acceptance and adoption among businesses is still in early stages. […]
Read MoreThe Tourism and Technology Summit 2019 has been approved and listed on the UNWTO Tourism for SDGs platform.This is aimed at driving international participation for the highly anticipated annual event. Following this development a registration window has been opened on the platform for partnerships and delegates. Under SDGS 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS, the summit […]
Read MoreOnly 50% of all global applications will run on public cloud in future, as organisations opt to run their workloads on private and edge clouds. This is according to Jai Menon, futurist and chief scientist at Cloudistics, discussing the evolution of cloud at ITWeb Cloud Summit 2019, held in Johannesburg, this week. Click Here “The […]
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