South African telecoms provider, MTN announced on Friday, 16 August 2019, that a subsidiary MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has been granted permission to offer financial services by Nigeria’s central bank. The announcement comes after the Nigerian...
Nigerian payments technology company, Verve held an event to launch the Verve Global Card on Wednesday, 14 August 2019. The Global Card is said to expand Verve’s existing suite portfolio of payment products and solutions by giving cardholders the...
Spacecom, an Isreali satellite communications operator, and the operator of AMOS-3 and AMOS-7 satellites has announced its partnership with IDS Africa, a Nigeria-based broadcaster. IDS Africa will broadcast services on the AMOS-17 satellite, Spacecom’s...
July 29, 2019 •
Finance, West Africa •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Nigeria’s Access Bank deploys new ATM and card solution
CR2 announced on Monday, 29 July 2019, that it has successfully completed the migration of Nigeria’s Access Bank’s ATMs to their ATM driving and card switching solution. With the largest customer base in Nigeria, Access Bank is the country’s largest...
Network provider, MTN Nigeria, announced on Thursday, 25 July 2019, that Ernest Ndukwe has been appointed Chairman of the board. Ndukwe, a former Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has since been called ‘Mr....
Nigerian Telecommunications provider, Airtel, announced on Wednesday, 24 July 2019, the introduction of two new 4G Smartphones — the Airtel Diva and Airtel Top Notch. These devices come on the heels of Airtels commitment to accelerate mobile Internet uptake...
On Tuesday, 23 July 2019, Showmax officially launched a new video-on-demand service in Nigeria. Priced at over $8 per month, the video streaming service features a dedicated slate of Nigerian TV shows and movies, international hit series and Hollywood...
Nigeria’s first Digital Agriculture platform, Farmcrowdy, together with its sister companies Agricsquare and Farmgate Africa, have announced a unification of all its companies. This is a strategy to create a larger Farmcrowdy, as well as allow this new...
July 7, 2019 •
Careers, Features, Top Stories •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Interview: Grey Jabesi on innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa
24-year-old Grey Jabesi, autodidact and crypto enthusiast, has just recently been appointed the new Director of Marketing for The Blockchain Association of Africa — based in Cape Town. IT News Africa’s Jenna Cook had the opportunity to chat with him about...
Siemon and Arista Networks have collaborated to share their knowledge at the recent ‘Cloud & Infrastructure Development Forum’ in Lagos. The forum delivered insight into key technologies that can enable pan-African businesses to successfully migrate...
MTN Nigeria announced that it’s 4G+ service has been launched and is immediately available in Lagos, Abuja, and Port-Harcourt. According to an article published by Telecompaper, ‘MTN 4G+ runs on LTE advanced technology using a combination of the...
Google is planning to build a new undersea cable called “Equiano” that will connect Africa to Europe, more specifically South Africa to Portugal. The Equiano subsea cable will be fully funded by the company. Google has invested $47 billion in...
June 30, 2019 •
Retail, West Africa •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on Jumia Food Nigeria promotes healthy living with addition of So Fresh to its platform
Jumia Food has added So Fresh, a Nigerian fresh food chain, to its platform. This is in a bid to promote healthy living among Nigerians. The collaboration was announced on Wednesday, 26th June 2019, at a press conference held by both So Fresh and...
Playfre, the African music streaming service created by Chika Nwaogu, has launched a new service called SongRoute. SongRoute is designed to further help African artists monetize their music online. This latest service comes just shortly after the release of...
June 20, 2019 •
Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa •
Kojo •
Comments Off on Playfre, Nigeria’s answer to Spotify, achieves 100,000 streams two weeks after its launch
Playfre, Africa’s first indigenous music streaming platform, has recorded 100,00 streams just two weeks after it launched. Playfre was launched on 1 May 2019 as a free music streaming platform that allows Africans to access over 45 million songs. The...
If you’ve done any kind of online shopping in South Africa, you’re more than likely to be familiar with the name i-Pay. Not only do they make electronic funds transfers (EFTs) smoother and safer, they also singlehandedly saved 2018 Black Friday...
