By Juliet Umeh In a bid to compensate customers of MTN network over an outage connection that left customers stranded on October 9, 2021, the Chief Executive Officer of the network, Mr. Olutokun Toriola, has again apologised in the video message and announced a compensation for the customers. Toriola said: “Recently, we had an outage […]

By Prince Osuagwu NIGERIA-BASED e-commerce fulfillment platform, Sendbox, has completed a $1.8 million seed round to help African Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs digitise their delivery services. Sendbox is a start-up solution provider  which aggregates logistics providers and help SMEs reduce the burden of engaging different logistic companies to deliver goods and services in diverse […]

By Juliet Umeh The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA-led digital training for Information and Communication Technology, ICT, journalists under the aegis of the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association, NITRA, kicked off Monday. Apart from NITDA, several other companies have shown support to see that ICT journalists get requisite digital knowledge to report events in […]

Russia said on Tuesday it would fine U.S. tech giant, Google, a percentage of its annual Russian turnover for repeatedly failing to delete content deemed illegal. This is Moscow’s strongest effort yet to rein in foreign tech firms. The communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, said Google had failed to pay 32.5 million roubles ($458,100) in penalties levied […]

In a great development for the African blockchain space, Xend Finance the first decentralized finance (DeFi) platform in the continent has announced the continent’s largest hackathon. Dubbed “Decentralising Africa and Beyond”, the first Xend Finance DeFi Hackathon is focused on promoting the dreams and visions of blockchain and cryptocurrency as well as decentralizing the financial […]