A dean of one of the science-based faculties of the University of Abuja is currently under investigation for soliciting sex to award marks to one of his female students, Daily Trust on Sunday has learnt. The alarms went off on the senior university lecturer after he was caught in a sting operation at a hotel […]
RUGA To Gulp N2.2bn From The 2019 Budget
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang at the weekend called on states in the southern part of the country to support the implementation of the proposed RUGA cattle settlement programme by making land available. According to him, N2.258 billion was provided for its implementation in the […]
CCTV Footage Of Househelp Forcing Faeces On Madam’s Son
A Nigerian lady Uchechukwu Ogugua, got quite thankful as she shared CCTV footages of her house help Agatha, assaulting her 2-year-old son left in her care. According to the lady, she thought her son’s teacher was inflicting the injuries on him but the CCTV footage uncovered who was behind the act. Accusing the 14-year-old house […]
Tekno apologizes to Nigerians for publicly dancing with van strippers
Tekno says he loves to shoot his videos in Lagos and he did not intend to offend anyone with the viral video of him and stripper dancing in public. Nigerian Singer Tekno has apologized to the public over the viral video that showed that showed half naked ladies dancing in a truck in Lagos. His […]
Pep Guardiola becomes first Premier League manager to be shown yellow card
Pep Guardiola has become the first Premier League manager to be shown a yellow card. The Spaniard was booked by referee Martin Atkinson in the 41st minute of the Community Shield encounter with Liverpool at Wembley on Sunday. The Manchester City boss was left furious after a high challenge from Joe Gomez left City skipper […]
Newborn baby dies after his mum fell asleep while feeding him
A newborn baby has died after his mother fell asleep while feeding him, an inquest has heard. Joanne Harwood found her three-week-old son, Harry Marwood-Bartlett, lying face down on her bed in a pool of blood after she unexpectedly dozed off at her home in Kendal, Cumbria on November 15. Her adult son Thomas called […]
Buhari’s government behaving like Abacha’s – Wole Soyinka speaks on Omoyele Sowore’s arrest
Prof. Wole Soyinka likened President Buhari’s government to that of late military dictator Sani Abacha, while reacting to the arrest of Omoyele Sowore by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). The Nobel Laureate insisted that beyond the word ‘revolution’, Sowore has never uttered, written or advocated for a forceful overthrow of government. Recounting […]
3 Nigerians jailed in UK for laundering £1m to Black Axe leader in Nigeria
Three Nigerian siblings who were working directly for the leader of the Nigerian Black Axe gang, Augustus Bemigho-Eyeoyibo, have been jailed for a total of 16 years after laundering nearly £1m to him in Nigeria through several UK bank accounts. Crown Prosecution Service reported on its website that Okemiorukaye Nakpodia, 56, was found guilty of […]
Nigerian porn star, Annie Blonde calls out man who had sex with her and refused to pay
Annie Blonde, a Nigerian porn star fired up her Instagram to go off on a man she accused of having sex with her and refusing to pay up. Though the adult movie star didn’t give the name of the defaulting client, however she revealed that she came over to his house after much plea. Annie […]
Buhari Is Planning To Jail Me – Atiku Cries Out
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) presidential candidate in the just concluded poll has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of planning to jail him because he refuses to let go his mandate. According to Atiku who spoke via a statement issued by his media aide, Paul Ibe, yesterday, he accused Buhari of planning to rope […]
Oreoluwa Somolu-Lesi: A Decade and More of Balancing Tech’s Gender Scale
If you were born to an electrical engineer father and civil engineer mother in post-independence Nigeria, chances are, you were expected to take after your parents by aspiring to become an engineer, with the only question being which specialty you’d pursue. Oreoluwa Somolu-Lesi, founder of Women’s Technology Empowerment Center (W.TEC), one of Nigeria’s foremost women […]
Founder, Investor, Activist: Rebecca Enonchong’s Multi-Lane Road as a Tech Powerhouse
In January 2017, Cameroon’s government, which is primarily francophone, shut down the internet in the anglophone region due to protests. This was the country’s first ever internet shutdown and it ended in April 2017 but a second one which lasted until March 1, 2018, started in October 2017. Both shutdowns cost the economy about USD […]
TC Townhall: The State of Health Tech in Nigeria Theme Presentation
The State of Health Tech in Nigeria, a report about the health tech businesses challenging the nation’s healthcare problems, was officially unveiled at TC Townhall: The State of Health Tech in Nigeria. The report takes a look at 75 startups, operating across 12 subsectors, with solutions ranging from diagnostics to telemedicine, the amount of capital […]
Upholding Human Rights with Low-Tech Innovation
On December 10, 1948, at the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was drafted. The 30-point document has become a guide for humanity to treat each other with dignity and as deserving of the best quality of life possible regardless of nationality, race, religious leanings, political ideologies, and every […]
Rwanda Must Pick a Side in its GMO Debate
Like a phoenix, Rwanda is fast rising towards a future that is inclusive, innovative and self-reliant. It is in this vein that last year, the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) began drafting a law seeking to regulate the country’s use of genetically modified organisms if and when it adopts their use. This policy framework would […]
BoICT 2019: Vodacom Bags 3 Awards, Now Hall of Fame Inductee
L-R: Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), Gbenga Adebayo; Managing Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Wale Odeyemi; Chief Executive Officer, Communication Week Media, Ken Nwogbo; Commercial Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Solomon Ogufere; and Chairman, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Olusola Teniola during the 2019 Beacon of ICT Awards held in Lagos […]
Curbing Losses in the Food Value Chain in Africa
Despite infrastructure hurdles, companies in Africa are taking the innovation route to reduce losses in the food value chain. Cold chain facilities play a prominent role in these efforts. An estimated 1 in every 4 people in sub-Saharan Africa is malnourished. Yet, a third of the food produced for human consumption every year gets lost […]
Egypt’s Growing eSports Industry
Hockey, handball, gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting, ball games–ancient stone engravings suggest that a lot of modern sports we know today existed in ancient Egypt around the year 2000 BCE, in the form of organised tournaments with teams, referees, winners and losers. As with many other aspects of our lives since the dawn of the technology era, […]
To Drive Inclusion, Fintech Solutions Should Focus on Last Mile Users
The British High Commission to Nigeria and EFInA (Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access), last week, convened an interactive session tagged Powering Financial Inclusion Through Fintech, to discuss furthering financial inclusion in Nigeria with key fintech stakeholders. According to the EFInA Fintech Landscape Report 2018, which was unveiled at the event, there are currently 210-250 fintech […]
What African Nations Can Learn from Rwanda’s Growth as an Innovation Hub
Rwanda is quickly becoming an innovator’s paradise. Technology companies and manufacturers from within and outside the continent are moving to the country to either set-up innovation hubs or manufacturing plants. Last year Andela, which originally launched in Nigeria, announced it was launching a pan-African tech hub in Kigali. The hub will recruit and train software […]
The Costs of Securing Africa’s Future Through STEM Education
From Lagos to Dakar, conversations abound about the future of work and how innovation continues to disrupt what we think we know. New technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics still generate understandable uncertainty about what roles humans will be able to play in the labour force in another five years. Countries with very little investments […]
Four First-Time Founders Share Their Startup Stories
Starting and running a business has some striking similarities to adventure games. The excitement and potential pitfalls against a background of courage that’s required when seeking adventure in games, remain principal ingredients to succeed as a founder, especially when it’s a ‘first’. We talked to four founders, who despite challenges, run their own tech ventures […]
These Initiatives are Helping More Young Girls and Women Get into Tech
In the month of March, TechCabal deeply explored diversity in the technology industry by putting out a portrait series and exhibition event which featured 50 women working in diverse capacities in the Lagos technology sector. We also explored what inclusion models within the African context should look like, one of which is the need for […]
A Legal Perspective on Health Tech in Nigeria
Editor’s Note: This is a legal opinion article by Olisa Agbakoba Legal, part of the TechCabal health tech content series. Read a full regulatory checklist for health tech entrepreneurs here. Get ‘The State of Health Tech in Nigeria‘, a deeply researched report about the health tech industry and regulatory environment governing the sector. Healthcare in […]
Adia Sowho shares her experience about leading complex organizations
On the 23rd of March, as part of the Tech Women Lagos series, Adia Sowho, Managing Director – Nigeria/VP Commercial at Mines, shared her experience as a decision maker and leader at innovative and technologically complex Nigerian businesses with an audience comprising women from different backgrounds and roles (and men too). In the Tech Women […]