Black Friday: Outdated online listings may undermine retailers — Google
By Juliet Umeh Nigerian retailers preparing for Black Friday may lose ready-to-buy customers if their Google listings carry outdated opening hours, unanswered phone numbers or old product photographs. Google’s Director for East and West Africa, Olumide Balogun, gave the warning as Nigeria prepare for Black Friday and December festive shopping season. Black Friday falls on […]
Konga unveils shopping festival for yuletide shoppers
Composite e-commerce platform, Konga, has has lifted part of the christmas spending weight off its existing and potential shoppers with the unveiling of the Konga Naija Shopping Festival, a nationwide end-of-year shopping campaign designed to bring value, convenience, and festive cheer to shoppers.
TikTok suspends nighttime livestreams in Nigeria amid rising sexual exploitation reports
TikTok has suspended access to its late-night LIVE feature in Nigeria following a surge in livestreams containing explicit sexual content, including cases of users engaging in real-time sex acts before large online audiences.
Robotics, coding classes, giving Nigeria’s edu-system facelift – Women in technology
A post-event report by Women in Technology in Nigeria, WITIN, has revealed that schools nationwide have started establishing robotics clubs, coding classes, sustainability projects and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM innovation hubs to give Nigeria’s education system a facelift.
Improved financial mgt raises FairMoney’s credit rating
The deployment of cutting-edge technology and customer-centric approach in financial management have combined to give Nigeria’s frontline Microfinance bank, FairMoney improved credit rating by Global Credit Rating, GCR.
Meta begins removal of under-16s from social media in Australia
Tech giant Meta said Thursday it is starting to remove under-16s in Australia from Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first youth social media ban.
