Seyi Brown: Nigerian American (A Review)
Comedy specials are premium content. Just ask Netflix why they shell out huge bucks for them from stand-up acts of repute. As valuable pieces of content, as they are, the comedy space in Nigeria has not caught on. Read more about Entertainment For all our thirst for new content, we do not get a […]
What The Flutterwave Partnership With Paypal Means For Nigerians
So what is clear to any keen observer is that FinTech companies in Nigeria are that they are on a roll and they will be for a fairly long time. Read more about FinTech Fintechs have been the yardstick for measuring growth in tech all over Africa as the need they provide solutions for are […]
DIY: How To Avoid Being Scammed While Shopping Online
There is a lot of things we do these days that have just as many attendant risks as they are routine. Shopping for anything online in Nigeria is one of those things that many take for granted but has seen many others lose a lot of money to phony vendors and dodgy characters on […]
History Trivia: Alvan Ikoku – A short Biography
Alvan Azinna Ikoku is Nigeria’s most storied educator but many do not seem to know much about him apart from being the head on the ten naira note– a sad fall-out of Nigeria’s disregard for its own past, unfortunately. Today’s trivia will have to do with the man himself, however. Read more about History […]
Teju Ajani Joins Apple As Managing Director For Nigeria
Teju Ajani has been announced by Apple as the new country manager on Wednesday. The tech giant has announced that she will in particular supervise sales and business development, directly. Read more about Tech It appears Apple is finally looking to take its business in sub-Saharan Africa seriously, given this new move. It is not […]
Flutterwave Secures Series C Funding, Breaks 1 billion Dollar Valuation Hurdle
Financial technology is by far the best performing tech sector anywhere in Africa. In many ways, it is the low-hanging fruit in tech and more and more techpreneurs are thinking up solutions around money and payments. Read more about Tech The biggest success stories are in tech and the biggest success stories in tech […]
Ric Hassani And The Broken Record That Is NBC: The Changing Face Of The Media
Ric Hassani has been on the scene for the best part of a decade in music but most industry enthusiasts only noticed him in the past weeks. Why? The National Broadcasting Commission banned his latest single that was controversially titled “Thunder Fire You”. How this is possible is not lost on anyone as that […]
Why We Must Look Out For Women More
The female population makes up roughly half of the human population anywhere in the world and on International Women’s Day of all days, it follows that all of society is reminded of all or a few of the reasons why its female population needs to be uplifted and listened to more. Read more about […]
Social Media Roundup
Twitter was buzzing this past week and it was as juicy as any other week. As expected some were more relevant regardless here are some of your relevant Twitter trends form the past week. Read more about Social media roundup 1. Ric Hassani The gist is this: Ric Hassani released his album last Friday […]
Tips For Floating Your Own Podcast
The beauty of podcasts is that it allows expression in a way that other live audio based formats like radio do not. The format is consistent with the internet age within which it evolved. It is devoid of those pesky ad breaks and hiccups like breaks in transmission. Read more about Helpful Tips The […]
ImaliPay Raises Pre-seed Funding
You probably never heard of them but ImaliPay is one of the newest Nigerian fintech companies looking to capture the imagination of the tech community in the near future. ImaliPay has been on the scene for nearly six months now as they launched and a few days ago raised an undisclosed sum in pre-seed […]
King Kosoko Of Lagos
The second son of Oba Oshinlokun (sometimes called Eshinlokun) of Lagos, Kosoko became the 12th oba of Lagos in 1845, a reign that turned out be short-lived. Kosoko was born to the house of Oshinlokun, who bore 15 other children. Read more about History Trivia The events for which he would be best known […]
Maintenance Tips For Your Bike/Two Wheeler
Two-wheeler fans and users are a much smaller niche than car users and owners. That does not mean that they are less significant. In fact, two-wheelers are a practical solution for transportation problems in African countries like Nigeria as they are nimble and less susceptible to traffic, as well as, cheap or cheaper than […]
Twitter To Introduce Interesting New Features
Twitter has struggled with monetizing its platform in the past decade and a half but given its announcement in the past week, it may have just cracked the code on that. Twitter announced last week at a platform for investors and analysts that the new features, ‘Super Follows’ and ‘Communities’ will be the newest […]
Social Media Roundup: Spotify, Gumi, And Emefiele
It has been a week, guys yet the Twittersphere never stops for anybody or for any reason. So without much time spent on trivial matters, these are your social media trends: Read more about Social media roundup Spotify Spotify may have just formalized its relationship with Africa as it announced on Monday that it […]
TuneCore Bets On Africa
TuneCore seems to bet on Africa now as it has made actual moves into the African music market. Hot on the heels of Spotify’s Monday announcement, TuneCore has now appointed two new execs to handle its operations on-site in Africa. Jade Leaf (South Africa) and Chioma Onuchukwu (Nigeria) will be heading TuneCore’s operations in […]