Moving away from the typical use of parks for recreation, the Lagos State government, through LASPARK, gives innovation-driven firms free spaces within state-owned parks for erecting low-cost innovati…
Since moving to Nigeria and graduating from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 batch, Releaf’s have remained primarily in stealth-mode. Techpoint however reached out to them recently to gain some insigh…
Sim Shagaya’s brainchild, E-Motion Advertising was recently acquired and we reported it as his first company. However, we take a look at four different projects Sim started and failed at before …
David Adeleke has made major strides in his industry, starting out as a humble social media manager and now, shaping the image of Eko Atlantic City. On this week’s How I Work, we speak with David to l…
OPay raises $120 million series B fund to scale in Nigeria and enter other African markets while improving high-frequency usage services on the payment platform.…
Opera Ads is a fast-growing online advertising platform that seamlessly integrates into the Opera product portfolio and its 350 million global users. The company has recently announced the addition of…
Nigerian-based medical logistics startup, LifeBank is adding ‘Beyond Visual Line Of Sight’ (BVLOS) drone delivery to its methods of transportation, a first of its kind for an African-led c…
In 2005, barely 7 years before Sim Shagaya founded Konga, he ran an outdoor advertising company called E-Motion Advertising. The company just got acquired by Seyi Tinubu’s Loatsad Promomedia.…
LifeBank wins $250,000 from the Jack Ma Foundation (through the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative). The medical logistics startup beat 9 other African startups competing for a share in $1 million tot…
A look at MTN Nigeria’s performance in its first six months on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, becoming Nigeria’s most valuable company amidst executive exits, xenophobic attacks, and loss of subsc…
Honeywell Group-backed corporate VC, Itanna releases the second batch of startups from its accelerator programme while revealing plans to support startups transitioning into West African markets…
Having identified social media’s influence on global elections, Facebook and Twitter are making efforts to reduce it to a bare minimum. But they have differing approaches.…
The future of eCommerce in Nigeria seems uncertain as WhatsApp launches Business ‘catalog’ on its platform. We explore what this could mean for established eCommerce players…
Having witnessed its struggles over the years, current trends and insights from industry players suggest a hands-on approach to the online sale of groceries could be the missing piece in the Nigerian …
In an interview with Techpoint, Dara Oladosu, creator of Quoted Replies discusses his surprise at Twitter’s job offer and the fate of his viral Twitte…
