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#Hack4Health: Three-Day Hackathon For Blood Donation App

Blood means life. But in Nigeria, access to safe blood is limited. Speaking on the 2012 World Blood Donor day, the Nigerian Minister of…

Jumia Nigeria Crosses 500,000 Facebook Fan Milestone

Jumia.com attains record breaking milestone of over half a million friends on Facebook in 1 year of operations in Nigeria. Nigeria’s number 1 online…

Apps Developed in Africa: Price Check

A number of interesting applications have been developed in Africa so far and many more are still being churned out daily. The idea is…

Jumia Nigeria Gets More Social With Instagram Fashion Show

Nigeria’s biggest online retailer, jumia.com.ng is set to dazzle Nigerian fashionistas with the country’s first ever Instagram Fashion show tagged “Reinvent” that went live…

Helping Geeks Helps The Economy – ‘Seun Onigbinde

Editor’s Note: Oluseun Onigbinde, an Ashoka Fellow leads BudgIT. Geeks, Have A Seat. With the Nigerian startup scene comes an establishment that, if well…

OTEKBITS Developer’s Corner Kicks Off With Emeka Afigbo

Last week we announced a series where we would follow what Nigerian developers are doing and understand the growth and faults of software development…

BlackBerry Targets Nigeria’s Best And Brightest Women In Scholars Program

BlackBerry is reaching out to women in Nigeria to urge them to apply for the new BlackBerry® Scholars Program,an initiative designed to inspire womenglobally…

OpenApps Crosses 1 Million Collective Visits With Interesting Outcomes

The Co-Creation Hub in a bid to improve the quality of digital business in the local space,  launched an initiative – Open Apps, and having…

Microsoft Office 2013: What’s New? [REVIEW]

Microsoft has made changes to the Office Suite with Office 2013 getting major facelifts. Unlike previous upgrades – Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 – where…

Open Data: Fostering Innovation In Nigeria [Hangout Session] – June 14

Open Data is a project geared towards making data from the public and private sectors readily available for consumption or use. It is usually…

[VIDEO] Check Out The Danfo Reloaded II Gameplay

Having launched the third iteration of Danfo mobile game series –  Danfo Reloaded II, Pledge 51 has gone to release a gameplay video to…

Internet Freedom at Risk in Nigeria: Paradigm Initiative Nigeria Releases Policy Brief

More than 45 million internet users in Nigeria comprising the general public mostly are on the verge of losing their Internet privacy on every…