NEWS

Google's plan to buy a 12.5% stake in Africa's largest wind farm has been cancelled after delays to the project, Danish wind turbine maker, Vestas, said on Monday. The 310 megawatt (MW) Lake Turkana wind farm in Kenya was initially...

Facebook just published its Q4 2019 performance update with increases in both monthly active users and revenue. Q4-2019-Earnings-Presentation-_final The Zuckerberg-led firm added 34 million DAU (daily active users), and 1.66 billion DAU for Q4: 1 million users in North America, while adding...

Google on Tuesday, January 28th, 2020, launched its first African developers space in Lagos, Nigeria. And for the most part, it's FREE! The developers space is aimed to create a physical place where African entrepreneurs, developers, mentors, VCs, and...

Lagos state has issued a statement to ban the use of motorcycles, popularly known as okada, and tricycles, popularly known as keke on all highways and bridges across the state with effect from February 1, 2020. The action was taken...

MTN is looking to enhance its retailers services across the country as it commences a "kiosk as a service" scheme. The “Kiosk as a Service” is a scheme that empowers retailers with a kiosk-like stall that enables each retailer to...

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors on Wednesday experienced a 4.8% rocket rise in its share price leading to a valuation of $100 bn for the company. It is a great news for the company and even a greater news for Elon...

For almost 3 days now, internet service in at least 12 sub-Saharan African countries has gone clumsy. Although some countries have greater impacts than the others, like consumers and businesses not being able to send emails or make international...

Do you remember when windows 7 was the windows 10 of today? Well, not anymore, because Microsoft has ended  support for its windows 7 operating system. The discontinuation came 10 years after existence of the OS, specifically on January...

MTN Nigeria is starting off the year with a relatively good news as the attorney-general has withdrawn its letter of demand for the aforementioned $2-billion (R28.5 billion) that was issued in August 2018 tax demand for alleged unpaid duties...

The CBN has issued new rules regarding charges in alternate channels, with effect from January 1, 2020. Areas reviewed included: * Electronic transfers charges * ATM fees * Card maintenance fees * Electronic transfers charges Starting from January 1, 2020, according to the CBN, intra...