Things To Know About Entering A Lagos Market
It’s a new a week and I thought this will be a good time to hit you with one of my wacky takes on different aspects of the Lagos and Nigerian experience. This time, we face the open-air markets that dominate our informal economy and frankly are major aspects of the Nigerian experience. So, […]
TSTV Is Back
Remember how some years back, a certain pay-TV brand came up with big promises? This year with not much in the way of hype, the service, TSTV, has relaunched and they are coming at the market with satellite broadcasting service that would incorporate a pay-per-view model. The service now claims to have 80 channels and […]
Lagos Mosaic Puts Nigeria In The Guinness Book Of Records
The Lagos State Government has on Independence Day put Nigeria on the Guinness Book of Records by building Nigeria @60 logo into a cupcake mosaic. A creative feat, yes. The state government through its Ministry of Tourism and Culture and a private firm, Fly Africa partnered up to deliver this record feat. Read more […]
Nigeria @60: The Nigerian Entertainment Industry
Nollywood and the music scene have been the torchbearers of the entertainment complex for the longest time. Most pundits would tell you the modern era can be traced back to the ’90s. The film industry especially has grown exponentially in international relevance since that time. In the light of Nigeria’s diamond jubilee, we would […]
Court Ruling Annuls Residency Fees For Estate Residents
A seeming landmark judgement was delivered at the Ikoyi High Court when Honorable Justice Oweibo ruled that estate residents cannot be compelled to pay estate resident dues. The ruling was delivered on the 25th of September in the light of a suit filed by Megawatts Nigeria through its legal counsel Mr Kayode Adeniji of Lawracles […]
Ten Types Of People You Would Find In A Danfo Bus
Lagos is a truly chaotic city but millions have made it their home. There are many things that make it unique, however, asides the noise and chaos. One of them is the yellow/black striped danfo buses that dominate the roads and these buses are responsible for transporting the most amount of persons by far […]
Did You Know Transcorp Is Only Fifteen Years Old?
Transnational Corporation of Nigeria which is better known as Transcorp Group has been in existence since 2004 is nowadays among the most valuable stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange nowadays. Read more about Business The company has grown from a hospitality group that bought stakes in NIRMSCO Properties Limited – the then owner of […]
Yemi Alade Becomes UNDP Goodwill Ambassador
Top Nigerian songstress, Yemi Alade has as of Wednesday become a United Nations Development Programme goodwill ambassador. The announcement was made via the UNDP official website and was followed by an acknowledgement from the music star herself and a welcome address by UNDP Administrator, Achim Steiner. Read more about Entertainment According to the UNDP […]
African Development Bank: AgriPitch Competition
The African Development Bank has launched this year’s iteration of its yearly Youth Agripreneur Agri-Pitch Competition and DealRoom. The aim of the initiative is to encourage young agripreneurs who are looking to scale their businesses. The idea is to foster food security across regions on the continent hence solve an existential problem in Africa. […]
Facebook To Open Second Africa Office In Lagos
It has been four years since Mark Zuckerberg visited Lagos and four years on, Facebook has decided to situate its second African office in the bustling metropolis and incidentally Africa’s most populous one in Lagos. Read more about Tech The location of the said new office is not clear yet and the social media […]
Mono Raises Pre-Seed Funding To The Tune Of $500k
Probably one of the biggest things in tech this year, budding API fin-tech start-up company, Mono is clearly on to something big barely two months into its life. The fin-tech outfit announced that it has raised $500,000 in its pre-seed funding round. Co-founder Abdul-Hameed Hassan announced via a Medium on Monday this week. Read […]
Social Media Roundup
Social media has been a breeze since the last time we did this. Then again there is always stuff to talk about. Here goes your dose of gist during the course of the week. Read more about Social media roundup FIRS Thursday, a series of tweets showed up that shocked an already shocked “political” […]
Did You Know? The First ATM In Nigeria
The first ATM in all of Nigeria was actually installed in 1989,-more than 20 years before they became a thing, by National Cash Register for the now-defunct Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN). Read more about Did you know? Thirty years later, ATM’s are now commonplace in the banking system but have not quite […]
Did You Know Carter Bridge Is The Oldest Bridge In Lagos?
Carter Bridge is probably just another bridge to you and for others, it is just another bridge of a few others but did you know it is the oldest of its kind in Lagos and the time it was built, it was the “Third Mainland Bridge” of its time. Read more about Did you […]
Etop Ikpe To Head Autochek
In an interesting turn of events, the tech corner of the auto industry has had a bit of a reel in these past few weeks. First, Etop Ikpe, erstwhile CEO and MD at Konga.com, then Deal Dey and until two weeks or so ago honcho at Cars45, left the company for unknown causes. Moreso, […]
Helpful Computer Hacks
Today, we will be running through some very useful computer hacks that we hope you have not known before and will prove useful going forward. To get a summary of a page or article on Google Chrome, download the Chrome extension, TDLR. The extension compresses the whole article into a summary and helps you […]