Despite investments in the broader African startup ecosystem dipping by 39 percent at the end of 2023, the healthtech genre of the ecosystem, however, showed impressive growth with deals rising by 17 percent to hit $167 million.

Women have been urged to embrace emerging opportunities in the technology industry to address the persistent gender gap.

Online secure savings platform  CashBox said it has accumulated more than half a million users on its network since it opened shop in Nigeria five years ago.

Starlink’s search for a credible and effective distributor for its kits in Africa has ended with a ground-breaking agreement, which sees Nigeria’s premier technology distribution powerhouse TD Africa becoming its first authorize dealer in Africa. 

Last week, lovers of genetically modified fruits and other food items were thrown into serious panic following a letter to the National Assembly, NASS, written by the Chairman of Global Prolife Alliance, GPA, Dr Philip Njemanze, seeking for total ban on genetically modified foods describing them as national threat.

To transform Nigeria’s digital connection environment and enhance high-performance internet connectivity for the citizenry, the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, IXPN, has activated its Point of Presence, PoP, at Open Access Data Centres, OADC, in Lagos.

That dependency on technology assumed a frightening dimension at the turn of the 21st century is no longer news.

A Lagos-based provider of essential support to organizations that build and deploy Large Language Models, LLMs, for generative text, NeuRaL AI, has announced the launch of BionicBox.“BionicBox has Chat GPT-like capabilities which facilitate quick interactions with live documents, enhancing decision-making and productivity, thereby boosting profitability.

In a transformative discourse led by Dr. Dominic Joshua, a distinguished investment expert and proprietor of a leading fintech enterprise, the spotlight is shifted onto the indispensable role of technology in steering the sustainable growth of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria.

When Phillip Hope Ojo began his journey in software engineering, he did not imagine he would lead the development of one of Africa’s most reliable human resource platforms

By Juliet Umeh Findings have shown that Nigerians purchase pre-registered Subscriber Identity Module, SIM cards, from unauthorized vendors. This has continued to frustrate the harmonization process embarked on by the different telecommunication services operators, telcos in the country. The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has warned that Nigerians should desist from patronising such vendors on the […]

By Juliet Umeh The American and Anambra State governments are strategising to advance Anambra technologically. This was the thrust of the discussion when the Governor of Anambra, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo met with the US Consul-General, William Stevens, together with other leaders at in Lagos. The meeting also provided an opportunity to enhance strategic partnerships for […]

By Lawal David Technology giant, Google has introduced two new features, Circle to Search and an AI-powered multisearch experience to enhance searching on its platform.Vice President, Search, Elizabeth Reid, who revealed this said Circle to Search is a new way to search anything on your Android phone screen without switching apps. She said: “With a […]

By Juliet Umeh South Eastern part of Nigeria continues to lag behind in telecom development. At least, recent data statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics confirmed so. The Bureau said that in terms of telecommunications development and broadband penetration, the region with five states including Abia, Anambra, Imo, Enugu and Ebonyi, took last in […]

With one in 10 Nigerian children affected by various developmental disabilities, Bloom Buddy, in partnership with Autism Speaks and the Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of the College of Medicine, at the University of Lagos, has developed NASQ web App tool for detecting autism spectrum disorder, ASD, among infants.