Nigeria’s first feature-length animated movie, Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters made its official outing to the big screens on December 11, 2020. Here’s how it was made…
Some Google Maps users have been struggling with navigation on the app
If you’re one of the many Nigerians regularly using Google Maps, you may have noticed some navigation glitches on the mobile app. Having confirmed the situation, Google says it’s working to reso…
The need for a bachelor’s degree in tech entrepreneurship in Africa: Myth or fact?
Techpoint Africa’s West African Startup Decade Report reveals that startups that raised over $1m in the last ten years have at least a co-founder with a bachelor’s degree. What does this mean going fo…
How is TStv faring in the Nigerian market two months after it relaunched?
After a product relaunch on October 1, 2020, Nigerian pay TV, TStv has taken its services to several Nigeria cities. Although it is too early to track adoption, we examine the company’s progress since…
How online grocery platforms are braving Nigeria’s recent food inflation
Many Nigerians are increasingly getting affected by the recent increase in the prices of foodstuff. Like last-mile retailers, platforms used by online grocers also face similar problems. We explore ho…
What makes Nigeria the dominant country in West Africa’s startup space
Techpoint Africa’s West African Startup Decade Report showed a high number of Nigerian startups account for most funding deals up to $1 million. We examine factors that may have caused this whopping 8…
Why ASUU, Nigeria’s union of university academic staff, is against government automated payment system
Nigerian university academic staff union, ASUU, reportedly paused an eight-month-long strike after the government allegedly exempted it from IPPIS, a unified payment system. We examine the system and …
With Fleets, Twitter wants to help users have safer conversations
Twitter finally joins the disappearing stories wagon like most social networking platforms, and the feature is called Fleets. Twitter hopes that this will encourage safer conversations. What are the p…
Edtech startup, M-Lugha wants to help every Kenyan child learn in their native language
This Kenyan telecoms engineer and information technologist is building interactive digital apps to help rural children learn in over 20 local languages asides Swahili, Kenyan’s official and dominant i…
Why Safeboda is leaving Kenya to focus on Uganda and Nigeria
After a 5-year run in the East-African market, Ugandan-founded bike-hailing startup, Safeboda has announced its exit from Kenya. This may have resulted from the effect of COVID-19 among other unconfir…
How close is Nigeria to adopting a proper e-voting system?
After a series of projections since 2017, Nigerians are anticipating an e-voting process for major elections starting from 2021. But findings show that as of 2020, previous challenges are yet to be ad…
Why solving Nigeria’s housing problem is beyond proptech startups for now
Real estate startups (proptech) are innovating to solve the obvious housing problem in Nigeria. However, it appears they are constrained by the existing infrastructure such that the average urban resi…
Nigeria’s CcHub acquires Kenya’s eLimu to build the content creation arm of re:learn
A year after acquiring iHub, Nigerian incubation hub, CcHub acquires Kenyan edtech startup, eLimu to develop digital academic content for its education unit, re:learn; will soon expand to other Africa…
Only 10% of female-founded startups in West Africa have raised up to $1 million since 2010
A comprehensive analysis of tech startups in West Africa, that raised at least $1 million cumulatively in the past ten years, reveals that only 10% of them have at least one female co-founder.…
Nigeria’s broadcast regulator could be creating a difficult era for journalism
In an age where citizen journalism is gaining traction, Nigeria’s Broadcasting regulator fined three media houses for reporting the October 20 shootings with eyewitness accounts. How will this impact …
Why Facebook labelled content from #LekkiMassacre2020 incident ‘false’
Following the sad #LekkiMassacre incident of October 20, Facebook and Instagram labelled related content ‘false information’. However, there seem to be inconsistencies in how they came to …
#EndSARS: How to bypass an Internet shutdown in Nigeria
Following speculations that the Nigerian government could try to disrupt the ongoing #EndSARS protests by ‘switching off’ the Internet, here’s how you can stay one step ahead…
#EndSARS: Another sign that massive change can start online
With a movement that began online, Nigerians are collectively opposing the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the police force on an unprecedented scale. What results are there to show so far?…
Why Netflix needs more than cheap plans to drive massive growth in Africa
Netflix is expected to have 3.6 million African subscribers by 2025 and it’s driving this with pricing and local content. But as it tests a cheap mobile-only plan, current progress suggests the goal m…
You’ll soon be able to permanently mute WhatsApp messages
A feature on WhatsApp that lets users control who they get message notifications from, Mute, has been reviewed. Users can now mute chats for more than a year. Available to Android users in beta testin…
