Apple Music spotlights five African cities’ vibrant African Sounds with new playlists. Discover unique local music from Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, and more. Apple Music has launched a new playlist initiative to spotlight the unique sounds of five major African music cities: Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Dar es Salaam. This project, known as “The Sounds …
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The Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2021 Report by StartupLink indicates Lagos has overtaken Nairobi to become Africa’s top startup city. Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria has overtaken Nairobi, Kenya to become Africa’s top startup ecosystem. This is according to the Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2021 which was released by StartupBlink. The report ranks Lagos …
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Uber Technology Inc. launched a pilot phase of its boat business in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on Friday, October 11, 2019. As part of its expansion plans into Africa, global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies LLC launched a pilot test of their taxi boat service in Lagos, Nigeria. As reported by Bloomberg on June 2019, Uber’s …
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Andela and Github are hosting a hackathon in Nigeria on October 26th and 27th to showcase the talent and work of the Nigerian developer community. Andela – the African company that is solving the technical talent shortage by building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s most talented software engineers and GitHub, an American technology company that …
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MEST Africa is accepting applications for it’s 2019 MEST Africa Challenge with $50k equity investment and an opportunity to join the MEST Entrepreneurial community.
TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Africa Competition sponsored by Facebook is scheduled to take place from December 11, 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria Speed Read: Startups apply HERE for Startup Battlefield Africa 2018. Selected teams pitch live December 11 in Lagos in front of top investors & the global TC audience. One startup will take home $25,000 USD of …
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Ten questions interview series with Ogundipe Fikayo, CEO & Co-Founder of ToLet.com.ng, online lettings agency helping renters with Lagos property market.
Reports from far and near indicates that, 89 countries including Ghana and a couple of other African countries has signed the final Acts of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) of the World Conference of International Telecommunications which took place in Dubai, UAE from December 3 – 14, 2012. The new ITU Act allows governments to …
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African fabrics are been used in designing fashion accessories and more these days. Not only in Ghana is this creativity and innovation available. At Maker Faire Africa Lagos event, young and elegant Nneamaka Nwosisi showcased fashion accessory made with locally sourced African fabrics/prints. According to Nneamaka, she started her fashion line Mak Nisy Collections in …
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Maker Faire Africa – a celebration of African innovation, designs, invention and ingenuity started on a very cool note. Most makers and exhibitors at this year’s event arrived early on time to start setting up their inventions and designs for the day. Designs/Inventions ranged from out-stretched “tuk-tuk†Limo bicycles, hydraulics powered toys from old syringes, …
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Maker Faire Africa is delighted to announce their 4th event Maker Faire Africa, Lagos which will take place in Lagos, Nigeria from November 5 – 6, 2012. Join them once again as they continue to cultivate new and existing maker communities across Africa. As was the case in Accra (‘09),Nairobi (’10) and Cairo (’11) MFA …
Everyone is talking up Africa’s potential for growth – but in a continent with more than a billion people, where should foreign companies focus their attention? According to research by Frontier Strategy Group, Africa will have 73 cities of 1-5m people by 2025.  Matthew Spivack, head of MENA research, picks out five top urban markets …
