Facebook will be helping Nigeria with its upcoming 2019 presidential elections. This comes after a team from Facebook, led by Ebele Okobi (Facebook’s Public Policy Director for Afrika) visited and met with Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explore … read more
While bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have suffered precipitous falls in recent weeks, the units remain popular in Nigeria where they make it easier to do business. On the surface, digital coins may not seem like a good idea in a … read more
“94 percent trust rate, 96 percent joy rate, 100 percent retention – it made me feel like all of this work was worth it after all.” Chude Jideonwo isn’t speaking about the results from group therapy. He is talking about … read more
TV and radio continue to dominate the media landscape in Nigeria, although the internet is gaining ground steadily and in Lagos, at least, penetration is on a par with newspapers. According to the 2017/18 edition of the Nigerian Media Advertising … read more
A Nigerian national is behind numerous cyber attacks targeting companies and personal computers in the last four months. An Israeli technology company, Check Point Software, says it has notified law enforcement officers in Nigeria and internationally about the individual, who … read more
A Nigerian girl, Katherine Eta of Childville School, Ogudu, Lagos, has emerged the third place winner in the 2017 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) held in Disneyland, California, USA. Katherine was the only African Champion in this year’s competition. … read more
Google boss Sundar Pichai joined members of his executive team on his first visit to Nigeria as the company announced a series of products for the country, including YouTube Go, a platform where users with slow Internet can preview and … read more
Nigeria is hiring US technology giants such as Oracle and Microsoft as the government invests more to save costs and fight corruption. An initiative led by California-based Oracle has enabled Nigerian authorities to remove 50,000 so-called ghost workers, or fake … read more
We found an explanation for those creepy friend requests you’re getting. A couple months ago a friend and I went to Colombia for vacation. While we were at the beach one day, we met a group of people and spent … read more
In Partnership the Lagos State Government and MainOne, a Nigeria telecommunications company, has launched a free public Wi-Fi project at parks and gardens in Lagos, Nigeria. The launch of the project was announced on the 12th of May at Ndubisi … read more