Goods Express connects Nigerians to top U.S/China stores like Amazon, Asos, Ebay, AliExpress and allows them shop and ship directly to Nigeria with payment easily made in Naira. GoodsExpress.com simplifies shipping from U.S to Nigeria.
With GoodsExpress.com, you need not struggle with App Installation and strenuous payment options before you get your favorite brands in Nigeria. Skip the worry of product authenticity as you shop around the world for top brands from trusted international stores like Amazon, Ebay, Asos, Macy’s, Walmart and other U.S stores all in one place.
Here are the 3 reasons why GoodsExpress is as good as Amazon Nigeria
No Need To Download An App – Shop Amazon, Ebay, Asos and Others easily GoodsExpress is one of the simplest and easiest online shopping sites that ship to Nigeria to use, all you need do is visit your U.S store of choice, search for the product you want, copy the link and paste it on the GoodsExpress search bar and voila your item is automatically added to your cart and you can make payment by funding your GoodsExpress wallet via a simple bank transfer.
FREE and Fast Shipping To Nigeria on most products Ship to Nigeria from Amazon, Asos, Ebay, Walmart and others in 5-10 days. GoodsExpress offers flexible shipping windows which makes it feel as if Amazon is here in Nigeria.
Easy payment Payment which used to be a problem due to fluctuating dollar rates, forex restrictions and limits for online transaction is no longer a problem as GoodsExpress makes it easy to pay with a simple bank transfer. The bank transfer funds your wallet automatically and you just checkout and wait to receive your items in Nigeria.
GoodsExpress allows customers to either pick-up their items at the Ikeja GRA experience centre or some customers prefer door to door delivery. GoodsExpress offers nationwide delivery to all the 36 states in Nigeria.
Pre-registration ends on October 12th, 2017, and you can redeem gifts when you buy between October 13th-22nd, 2017.
Here are 8 reasons why you should sign up for your own Galaxy Note 8 today:
The Galaxy Note 8 has a 6.3-inch screen with Super AMOLED display, allowing for clearer videos and images with a resolution of 2960 x 1440.
With the Galaxy Note 8’s S Pen, you can sketch your dreams to reality and take notes like never before; you can create a Live Message to add more character to what you want to say!
For the picture lovers, great photos are just a snap away – even when it’s dark! With its dual camera, the Galaxy Note 8 captures more light with its dual-pixel technology, while focusing fast and accurately.
The Galaxy Note 8 runs on the latest version of Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system, 6GB of RAM for improved multitasking and 30 percent more powerful processors.
The Galaxy Note 8 comes with 64GB internal storage and supports micro SD cards, up to 256GB.
The IP68 water and dust resistance feature on the Galaxy Note 8 allows for submersion in up to 1.5 meters of water for 30 minutes at a time
With the always-on display where notifications, time, date or personalized screen are permanently shown on the screen, even when your Galaxy Note 8 is idle.
The Galaxy Note 8 retains Samsung’s adaptive fast-charging and fast wireless charging features.
The Galaxy Note 8 is available in Midnight Black, Maple Gold and Orchid Gray.
Diamond Bank has gone ‘Beyond Banking’ again. Marking Independence Day, the group announced that it is holding a full-day experience called “Tech Fest” to bring together the best talent in Nigerian technology – one of the country’s fastest growing sectors.
Tech Fest was announced by the group’s CEO, Uzoma Dozie. Giving insight into the event, Uzoma stated “Diamond Bank’s philosophy has always been about connecting people and connecting markets. Technology is now driving these connections at a faster rate than ever before and this is improving the landscape for new businesses to start out, to be seen, to scale and most importantly to offer great customer experiences”.
Uzoma shared that while anchoring the Diamond TV programme ‘Tech Turks’, he has interviewed over 30 tech entrepreneurs in the last two years and it provided inspiration for something bigger – “I’m so excited to bring together all of these businesses run by smart ambitious people to create a new energy at Tech Fest. For me, this is a platform that we can share with our customers to help them get the best of local technology and to partner together to run better businesses. If there is one thing we have learned at Diamond, it is that you can’t do everything on your own and you need to collaborate if you are going to win and be the best at what you do”.
Diamond Bank is throwing the event open to all of her customers who want to work together to create innovative new businesses that solve real problems for Nigeria. As well as hosting a live Tech Turks stage, the event will showcase its leading small business customers, its pick of ‘fintech’ leaders, platform providers and investors.
Following Uzoma, the Bank’s Head of Corporate Communications, Chioma Afe, revealed that the event will hold in the second week of January 2018 at the Landmark Centre in Lagos. Chioma said that “this is not about telling our customers that we want to connect people and markets, this is about providing a platform to actually make it happen”.
Today, Spectranet 4GLTE announced the launch of its new long-term customer loyalty program, Spectranet Awards. The incentive program aims to reward existing and new customers for their patronage by awarding points that can be amassed and used to redeem gifts and cash discounts.
As a special promotion, Spectranet has announced that the customer that amasses the most reward points by 31st December, 2017, will win a trip to Dubai or, if preferred will get a one year free subscription to Spectranet’s Unlimited Gold plan.
Customers need to register,only once, for the scheme after which every month points will automatically be awarded whenever a subscription is renewed, upgraded or topped-up. Extra points will also be awarded for all sorts of actions which include; paying on time, introducing a friend and paying on-line. Spectranet will even award points just for registering on the scheme. Customers will be invited to register through a personalised email that will be sent out during the month of September 2017.
Mike Ogor, Head of marketing Spectranet, stated “our goal is to reward our customers for returning to enjoy the Spectranet quality service offering and for supporting us”.
Points can be redeemed in exchange for Spectranet Mifi, Data bundles, movie tickets, branded mug or to credit an account.
To demonstrate the transparency of the scheme, customers can check their accumulated points and activity undertaken via a customer portal on its website.
According to Spectranet’sChief Executive Officer,Mr David Venn, “we have a special relationship with our customers and we wanted to provide avery unique benefit, only available on our award winning platform, to reward customers for staying with us, supporting us and sharing our values”.
He continued, “As the market leader, we are happy to reward our customers with gifts that will improve their Internet experience and provide them with better access to things that matter most to them.”
Brett King, John Chaplin, Mitchell Elegbe, GMD Interswitch and Akeem Lawal, DCEO, Interswitch
In today’s business world, especially in the tech industry, disruption is one of the most over-used words. From discussions involving Uber to industry analysis of the rise of Netflix, the term “disruption” has become a recurring buzzword.
However, as the word has taken on a life of its own, there are bound to be misconceptions. The most common being the widespread confusion of the word with Innovation. Tony Robbins rightly opined in a recent blog post that “because everyone wants to seem on the bleeding edge of progress, everything that seems remotely innovative gets called “disruptive.”
While Innovation is closely related to disruption, they are not the same. However, it is not exactly black and white. While it is possible to be innovative without being disruptive, it is very unlikely that one would be disruptive without innovating. So what then is real disruption? What drives disruptive innovation and how can it be leveraged in different sectors of the economy, especially in facilitating seamless, secure and effective payment transactions?
To answer these questions and more, Nigeria’s leading integrated digital payments and Commerce Company, Interswitch Group invited the King of Disruption himself, Brett King to speak at the first ever edition of Interswitch Connect. With an overarching theme of “The Digital Transformation Imperative: Innovative Evolution or Disruptive Innovation” Interswitch Connect brought together the entire digital financial ecosystem including leading innovators and OEMs in the financial services industry “to discuss, debate and evaluate the future of transactions.”
A brief introduction on Brett King
Brett King is a futurist, an Amazon bestselling author, an award winning speaker, and radio host. He has advised the Obama administration on the Future of Banking, and has spoken in 50 countries in the last 3 years. Brett focuses on how technology disrupts businesses, changes behaviour and influences society.
He is also the CEO and Founder of Moven, a $200m mobile bank start-up, with the world’s first smart bank account. Moven’s app is used around the globe with over a million users. His radio show, Breaking Banks, is the first global show and podcast on FinTech, and has grown to be the most popular with an audience in 140 countries/ 3.6 million listeners.
Brett King
Brett’s session at the conference was a very insightful one as it not only helped participants at the event better understand the concept of disruptive innovation but also pointed out ways by which entire industries can be radically turned on its head with the introduction of a Disruptive Innovation model.
Here are three key takeaways on disruption from the event:
1. First Principle Thinking drives disruption, not thinking by analogy
First Principles Thinking is focused on breaking a situation down into its fundamental pieces and then putting them back together in a more effective way that serves your purposes. Many great thinkers including inventor Johannes Gutenberg, military strategist John Boyd, the great philosopher Aristotle, Tesla and SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, have used this approach successfully. In contrast, reasoning by analogy is building knowledge and solving problems based on prior assumptions, beliefs and widely held ‘best practices’ approved by
Many great thinkers including inventor Johannes Gutenberg, military strategist John Boyd, the great philosopher Aristotle, Tesla and SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, have used this approach successfully. In contrast, reasoning by analogy is building knowledge and solving problems based on prior assumptions, beliefs and widely held ‘best practices’ approved by majority of people.
Brett King says true disruption occurs when one tackles a challenge from scratch. He asks: “If we were to do things differently from scratch, what would it look like?” Brett believes breaking down a complex situation into its simplest and most basic form, and creating new solutions from scratch is key to disruption.
2. Artificial intelligence and robotics will drive disruption
With the advent of smart factories and smart infrastructure, manufacturing will no longer be dominated by human beings. In healthcare, the emergence of real-time diagnosis and gene editing technologies will further disrupt the industry.
New technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation will also turn the banking ecosystem on its head, disrupting the way people bank and the manner in which institutions deliver financial services.
Brett King believes the bank of the future will largely depend on these technologies to thrive, as they can potentially increase efficiency, decrease costs and enhance the customer experience. They will radically disrupt banking as we know it and financial institutions that refuse to adopt AI and robotics on time will be left behind.
3. Mobile and Internet plays a major role in innovation and disruption
Some of the biggest disruptions across different industries have been tied to the growing Internet and mobile penetration.
Mobile technology has created enormous value for people in Africa enabling them to do things that would have seemed impossible before now. For instance, the smartphone has impacted different industries including media and banking. With mobile penetration across Africa standing at over 90%, the reach of financial services has expanded to consumers even in very remote areas.
A clear example of this disruptive potential of mobile technology is the M-Pesa mobile payment service in Kenya, which constitutes more than a third of all financial transactions in Kenya.
Brett King asserted that the growing internet and mobile penetration in Africa will foster greater financial inclusion and coverage of the unbanked, just as it would continue to disrupt other sectors of the economy.
Rounding off
The Disruptive Innovation model has come to stay. As rightly pointed out by Brett King, the banking and financial services industry is still playing catch-up due to a lack of first principle thinking.
He called on stakeholders to think of banking as an experience and not just a collection of products. To achieve this, banks have to become data companies as they will only be as good as the data they have and can effectively use in creating such customer experiences.
He also believes that for real disruption to occur in the financial services sector, bank products and services need to be redesigned for the automated world and to achieve this, banks need to either partner a fintech company, acquire a fintech company or copy and replicate the technology itself.
Of the three options, Brett says partnering fintech companies remains the best approach.
Uzoma Dozie, Brett King and Akeem Lawal during a pannel session
Diamond Bank mVisa which allows your pay safely for goods and services introduces a reward program which gives you a chance to win a smartphone when you use the technology.
The bank says individuals who use the innovative payment solution can get access to the following rewards:
N1,000 airtime when you are one of the first 3,500 mVisa subscribers to perform two mVisa transactions in a week.
Extra N1,000 airtime when you are one of the 1,000 mVisa subscribers to perform three mVisa transactions each week worth N10,000.
A chance to win a smartphones if you are one of mVisa users with the highest transaction counts for 6 weeks.
Only a rare cluster of the population loves carrying cash around these days. It’s a lot of stress. That’s why the Diamond mVisa is a welcome development. The technology allows you pay for goods and services in an easy and secure way through your Diamond Mobile app. By scanning a merchant bar code, entering their code or scanning their saved image, you can pay make payments in a way that is hassle-free and enjoyable.
Today, Nigeria’s premier on-demand professional services and delivery platform – OyaNow, will formally launch in Abuja, the first of many cities that will become part of the OyaNow realm. OyaNow is not just your local food delivery company, it has stretched to an expansion beyond that, offering it’s consumers with several categories to choose from.
OyaNow Abuja
OyaNow is launching with the following categories, and will add more on throughout the year:
OyaFood – Order food from a variety of restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria.
OyaNight -Order selected services from the OyaNow platform from18:00 hrs till 2:00 hrs
OyaPick&Drop – Order for products to be picked from and dropped at locations of your choice.
OyaHome – Order for home cleaning and maintenance services from selected service providers.
OyaMed – Order for pharmaceutical products and medical services from selected pharmacies and clinics in Abuja.
OyaGlam – Order for beauty & health products; and book appointments for massages, pedicures, manicures etc. directly with selected beauty spas and clinics in Abuja.
OyaBiz – Have OyaNow deliver the products you’ve already sold to your customers based on a schedule of your choice.
Abbas Dayekh, CEO at OyaNow, said:
“It’s time to bring the Nigerian service industry to unprecedented heights, and what better way to start than by taking charge of how businesses sell their products and services? My vision is to make OyaNow the sole business-to-consumer platform a Nigerian will need on his or her phone, because we focus rigorously on convenience.”
What is OyaNow?
OyaNow helps consumers purchase products and services from their favorite stores with the tap of a button – no need to wait at the restaurant for your take-out to be ready, or to drive back home during rush-hour traffic to pick up your documents for your presentation at the office. OyaNow offers a safe, convenient, and reliable way to have the products you need delivered right at your doorstep, and provides discounted rates for your professional services needs. All of our drivers must undergo a screening and training process before they earn their OyaNow polos, which they wear with great pride.
Place Your Order
You can place your order from anywhere, using our website or Android/iOS apps, as long as you have an internet connection.
After deciding which category you’re interested in, choose the store you’d like to order from and select the products you’d like OyaNow to deliver to you.
You can either pay online or on delivery, using cash or your credit/debit card.
Then provide the recipient’s address (that you can save for future deliveries) to make sure that the driver closest to the store and you will accept your order.
Once the driver accepts your order, you will be notified via SMS of who your driver is and the status of your order.
After Ordering
The website shows you a Google Map with the GPS location of your driver, who will be in touch with you throughout the delivery process to ensure timely delivery of your goods.
Keep track of the status of your order from our Track Order button on the website and app.
Once the driver reaches your location, he will ask you for your verification code (sent to you via SMS) to make sure he’s providing the goods to the appropriate recipient.
If you buy a service from a store on our platform, they will reach out to you to confirm your purchase and the date and time you’d like to redeem it.
Rate the store and the delivery driver after each delivery to ensure that we get the necessary feedback to provide you with the most convenient platform in Nigeria.
Our Customer Care team is available during hours of operation to assist you with any concern or issue you may have with your order. If you reach them after business hours, you can always submit a support request to customercare@oyanow.ng.
Abbas Dayekh explained:
“OyaNow will be the station all businesses join to reach the ever-growing and sophisticated consumers of Nigeria.”
If you have a thing for selfie phones or smartphones with big batteries then you must have heard of Gionee A1 Lite. The Gionee A1 Lite is aimed at selfie lovers and features a 20MP front facing camera, you also get a 4000mAH battery on the device. When the device launched, the question on everyone’s mind was, is the camera worth the hype? Is it worth the price? Well we did some digging and here’s what people are saying:
According to Gionee, the USP of the A1 Lite is the 20MP front facing camera. Which a lot of users have praised. One user said images look good under poor lighting.
We also found a user online who claims to have used both the A1 and the A1 lite. He believes both devices have the same setup, but the image quality on the A1 lite is lower. Another user commented on how he loves taking pictures with his family members, while another said it was the best phone he ever owned.
Another user talked about how the camera captures a decent amount of details. A lot of female users are very happy with the A1 lite, they say the A1 lite takes beautiful images and their selfies have lesser blemishes and a smoother skin tone.
There were no complaints with the design of the device. Critics believe the Gionee A1 Lite is ergonomic and feels well built. We are not a big fan of the design of the A1 lite, we feel it is not as pretty as the A1.
No complaints with the battery, users say the 4000mAH battery lasts long. Position of the fingerprint scanner, power button and volume rocker is just right and all three work quite well. Users are not too happy about the 720p display, a lot of users see it as a let-down. A lot of mixed feeling around the performance of the A1 lite, some users believe Gionee could have done better, while others believe a 3GB RAM does the work perfectly.
For the most part, the Gionee A1 lite is a slam dunk. It’s brilliantly designed, budget friendly, has an excellent camera and has a huge battery that lasts. Long story short, if you’re looking for a new phone, this should be at the top of your list.
If you have the Gionee A1 lite Smart phone, share your experience with us in the comments. If you haven’t experienced it, visit http://www.gioneeonline.ng/a1-lite/
The UBA mobile app now comes with new exciting features for that engaging user experience every customer wants. The app’s new features makes banking a lot smoother, faster, fun and accessible, yet still at the touch of a screen.
With the recent upgrade, the app now fits the perfect ‘bank on the go’ status. These 5 features stand out to give customers that unique user experience.
– A Quick log-in within seconds with the bio-metric option
– ATM/Branch locator
– Quick selection of phone numbers from device contacts list for airtime top-up
– Favourites list creation for easier transactions
– Auto reminders for recurrent bill payments and transfers
It doesn’t only help with the payment of bills but also notifies you as a reminder on bills to be paid and transfers done; helps you locate the nearest ATM to you, and is always available for 24hours live chat support.
Others features of the upgrade are
– Faster navigation with the sliding menu available on all users’ sessions
– Fewer, more intuitive screens enhancing user experience
– 24hours customer service support via live chat
– Automation of OTP received via SMS on transaction screen
The new UBA Mobile app is available for Android and Apple users on the Google Play Store and the App Store. You could also follow these links below:
Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited started its CSR flagship program called Seeds for the Future in the year 2008. This program seeks to develop local ICT talent, enhance knowledge transfer, promote a greater understanding of the telecommunications sector, and also improve and encourage regional building and participation in the digital community.
The program had been implemented in 96 countries and over 30,000 students from 280 universities have benefitted from the program; among them, more than 2,700 university students have gone on a study trip to the Huawei headquarters in China.
In line with the Seeds for the Future program, Huawei Technologies Nigeria Limited signed an MOU with the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2015 to train 2,000 Nigerian Youths in ICT.
So far, a total number of 1,345 youths have been trained in the Abuja and Lagos Huawei training centers on telecommunication power system; Information and Communication Technologies Fundamentals; Huawei Certificated Datacom Assistant; and Base Telecom Station and Microwave Installation.
The best 20 participants would be sent to China for further training from the ongoing ICT for Change Program, in which ten candidates have been recently selected after an intensive training program, examination and interview process.
The 10 successful candidates will proceed to Beijing and Shenzhen China from the 11th to the 22nd of September 2017.
Speaking at the Kick off ceremony, the Honourable Minister of Communications Barr. Abdur-raheem Adebayo Shittu expressed his appreciation on behalf of the Federal government of Nigeria to Huawei Technologies for their consistent support in the area of human and institutional capacity development, promotion of technological innovation, knowledge transfer and ICT infrastructure construction.
Furthermore, he assured Huawei of the Federal government’s unflinching support as they have partnered with the Ministry of Communications.
The Public Relations Director of Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited Mr Pan Haiyang said in his speech that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a significant impact on the economy development.
“As a global leading ICT Solutions provider, Huawei believes that only enterprises that align their core ability and operations with their social responsibility, can achieve long-term and sustainable development.” he said.
One of the successful participants Oluwasikemi Victoria expressed her joy to have scaled through the final selection process while lauding the firm for giving back to the society.
“The intensive training was an eye opener for me to the wonderful opportunities in the ICT sector; I would also like to thank the management of Huawei for ensuring transparency throughout the whole selection process.” she said.
Other successful participants are Awal Abdulganiyu, Wama Adi, Oyinlola Iyanu Benson, Abubakar Baba Ladan, Isah James Lata, Nneka Chikaeze Opurum, Tolulope Ifeoluwa Awobayo, Sunday John Bolufawi and Elijah Seyifunmi Adelusi.
Over the years Huawei has been investing in ICT skills and knowledge in an effort to boost employment, foster the development of knowledge-intensive products and services, and enhancing the ICT skills of the future generations.
Some of Huawei’s interventions include:
2012, Huawei donated ICT scholarship at the University of Lagos
2014, the sum of N80Mwas donated to Africa University of Science and Technology for the construction of an ICT lab and Scholarship
2015, 1,000 Girls were trained on basic ICT knowledge in Abuja and Lagos
2016, ten candidates were selected from various MDA’s for training in China.
So far Huawei training centers in Abuja and Lagos have trained more than 20,000 Telecommunication Engineers, contributing to the development of telecom talents in Nigeria.
Registration is still on-going for tech/payment enthusiasts who desire to attend the maiden edition of Interswitch Connect 2017.
The conference which holds on the 14th and 15th September 2017 at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island Lagos is themed “Digital Transformation Imperatives: Innovative Evolution or Disruptive Innovation”, and promises to excite Africa’s tech/payment ecosystem, bringing ideas and much debated concepts on the 4th industrial revolution to life in deep and powerful conversations and sessions.
Experts and speakers such as renowned global selling author and host of “Breaking Banks” on voice America, Brett king; Global Payments Innovation Jury organizer, John Chaplin; Stephen van Coller, a member of MTN group executive committee and also former Chief Executive at Barclays African group.
Interested attendees should visit www.interswitchconnect.com to register and secure seats for themselves at the event.
Other distinguished speakers such as Founder & Executive Vice Chairman of CWG Plc Austin Okere; co-founder of Flutterwave, Iyinoluwa Aboyej, Head, Digital Financial Service & Mobile Payments at KCB Bank Group, Edward Ndichu, Director for Friesland Campina WAMCO Nigeria PLC, Adewale Arikawe, Executive Director for Retail Banking at FCMB, Olu Akanmu, Chief Transformation Officer at MTN, Olubayo Adekanbi, co-founder and CEO of Paystack, Shola Akinlade, CEO for Kantar TNS East Africa, Aggrey Maposa, Technology and business leader at Fio Corporation, Bayan Quandil, Co-founder of Lagos, Nigeria-based Paga Jay Alabraba, this first of its kind conference promises to be the tech/payment event of the year.
In spite of the eminent challenges with doing business in Nigeria, a major deterrent to startups is access to finance and funding. Though numerous financial institutions exist to provide access to loans, the double digit interest rates and repayment plans instill a feeling of dread and foreboding in the minds of entrepreneurs. Startups play an integral role to building a sustainable economy as they contribute directly to job creations economic diversity. As technology expands in its uses and applications, businesses have leveraged on opportunities generated to disrupt existing norms and grow their bottom-line.
In the midst of the recessed economy and as the nation emerges from recession, startups and the Nigerian tech community as a whole are playing important roles in the creation of employment and economic opportunities. These crop of entrepreneurs – innovators and dreamers – remain bullish in their quest for success and their beliefs that against all odds, they have the capability to build something that can last the test of time.
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), a private sector funded organization with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into an open, private sector-led globally competitive economy, announces its first Startups Pitching Events to be held at the 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja. This event would connect potential investors and venture capitalists to eight (8) early-stage businesses seeking to raise funds for their businesses. https://nesgroup.org/#NES23Pitching
The 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit (#NES 23) would take place on October 10 – 12, 2017 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, with the theme “Opportunities, Productivity & Employment: Actualizing the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan”. Thematic pillars are: Think Nigeria; Skills, competencies & capacity; Access to Capital; Legislations & Economic Inclusion.
This year’s Summit objectives would include
Outlining national job deficits
Defining a reviewed national framework for new economic opportunities
Set out a reviewed framework for entrepreneurship and innovation
Provide policy linkages between mapped economic opportunities and competencies
Explore strategic investment options and establish a reviewed national agenda
Part of the conversation would include digitization, its contributions to economic growth and opportunities that exist in knowledge transference within the youth population.
The new smartphone is from the Infinix Hot series product line, which has continued to deliver unbeatable success in Nigeria and other African markets. The new Infinix Hot 5 and Hot 5 lite offers the best mobile entertainment experience with its key feature 5.5HD screen, dual front speakers at the top and bottom of the smartphone with 3D Dirac stereo surrounding to boost sound.
The Infinix Hot 5’s speakers are inbuilt to project quality sound with the movie-perfect 5.5HD screen to enhance users mobile movie experience. The Hot 5 retains the original HOT series cool design with a redefined unibody metal frame and a sleek bubble back cover in beautiful colors such as Apple green, Bordeaux red and other fun colors.
Other HOT features prepacked in the Infinix Hot 5 include 4000mah battery, 8 rear + 5 front mega pixel camera, 16GB ROM expandable to 32GB, 2GB RAM, XOS 2.2, Fingerprint scanner and it is powered by Android 7.0 Nougat.
Infinix Hot 5 was crafted for mobile entertainment compared to its predecessor Infinix Hot 4.
Comparison Table for Infinix Hot 5 vs Infinix Hot 4
The new Infinix Hot 5 will retail for N37, 500 and Infinix Hot 5 lite for N32, 000 both versions will be available on the 30th of August, 2017 on Jumia.com.ng and at all Slot retail outlets nationwide.
Africa’s leading fintech and digital payment solutions’ company, Interswitch is pulling together stakeholders and experts to discuss how disruption and innovation are re-shaping the future of the industry through its premier conference – Interswitch Connect. The Conference, Exhibition and Breakouts is tagged: Digital Transformation Imperatives: Innovative Evolution or Disruptive Innovation?
Through Interswitch Connect, we bring together the entire digital financial ecosystem to discuss, debate and evaluate the future of transactions, over 2 days of expert keynote presentations, panel discussions, breakout workshops, presentations and product demos from the leading innovators and OEMs in the financial services industry.
This conference will explore how various players – banks, retailers, telcos and merchants etc. can adapt to new market realities and a landscape that is rapidly being redefined and dominated by fintech disruptors.
Register to be a participant at the conference to meet the movers and shakers in the Fintech, Commerce, Retail, Consumer and Healthcare industries, as well as the brains and minds behind the accelerating growth of the digital payments ecosystem global.
Conference holds between September 14th and 15th, 2017 at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
That your little idea today may just be the next big thing tomorrow and here’s why the best time to start your Entrepreneurship journey is NOW!
DIAMOND BANK in collaboration with Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University unveils the start of the DIAMOND BET season 7, with business/entrepreneurial trainings for 50 entrepreneurs and a N3, 000,000 grant for the top 5 businesses after the six months training.
The program is aimed to Inspire, encourage and support budding entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Understanding that some of the major challenges for potential Entrepreneurs today are FUNDING and MENTORSHIP, Diamond Bank has combined these two in the Building Entrepreneurs Today (BET) CSR Initiative which involves the training of fifty (50) budding entrepreneurs over a period of 6 months after which the top 5 are awarded N3, 000,000 grant to take their businesses to the next level. This will be achieved through series of Entrepreneurship and mentorship programs developed by the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC).
In the past years, the Diamond BET initiative has contributed immensely to the pool of skilled Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME) entrepreneurs and has by extension boosted wealth creation across the country.
L – R : Mark Ifashe, Head Emerging Businesses; Chioma Afe, Divisional Head, Corporate Communications; Uzoma Dozie, CEO, all of Diamond Bank Plc; Peter Bankole, Director; Nneka Okekearu, Deputy Director all Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) at the Building Entreprenuers Today (BET 7) Press Conference held in Lagos recently.
Diamond BET is inviting innovators and entrepreneurs from all walks of life to take on this opportunity, potential beneficiaries are encouraged to apply to get on the program as it is open to entrepreneurs in all sectors, across different ages with focus on innovation and social impact.
Applications are opened from now till September 29th, 2017. If you think you’ve got that big idea that will reshape the future, pitch it now and stand the chance to get funded!
Join today’s entrepreneurs rethinking tomorrow. Join BET 7. Click diamondbet.com.ng now to get started.
Gionee has dropped the latest in its A series of smartphones by launching the A1 Lite smartphone. The big highlight of the smartphone is its selfie camera, and its 4000mAh battery. Apart from packing a heavy punch in the specs arena, the Gionee A1 Lite is also very affordable. Get it here
Let’s go straight into the unboxing…
Introducing the Gionee A1 Lite! The device comes in a white box, with the image of the phone on the front and the specs behind. The box is wrapped in a moisture resistant packaging which does not take anything away from the premium look.
Okay, here is a quick look at the Specs of the Gionee A1 Lite
Opening the carton reveals casing packed with loads of accessories, which include a pouch, charger and cord, extra screen guard and wipe, earpiece, warranty card and user guide.
Pouch: The A1 Lite comes with a very beautiful and exquisite pouch. It fits perfectly into your palms and pocket. Charger and cord: Keep your Gionee A1 Lite phone always in power with this sleek & stylish cable that ensures very fast charging for optimal performance. Earpiece: Punchy and clear earphones, you’d love to keep them on and keep listening without strain on the ears. Screen guard & wipe: Extra skin guard and wipe, how cool is that? Ejector pin: The Gionee A1 Lite comes with an Ejector pin for the sim and memory card slot. User guide & warranty: A friendly user guide and a warranty! So you get all the information and all the cover you need and your companion to discover more about the phone.
The Gionee A1 Lite features a 20 MP front camera along with a customized selfie flash to spread light onto faces more evenly and softly even when it’s dark. The A1 Lite also has a facial enhancement algorithm that automatically detects a user’s face and applies custom beauty settings for pictures and videos.
At the back you have a 13 MP rear camera with auto focus capabilities and LED flash. Perfect for capturing great memories in not so great light.
The Gionee A1 Lite also comes with a fingerprint sensor at the back to help keep your phone more secure. The fingerprint scanner doubles as a camera button and also for locking and unlocking the phone.
The Ear piece and charging port uniquely situated at the bottom for easy access. We also noticed that there are no ports situated at the top of the device, all ports are at the bottom of the device.
The Sim port! To the left side of the device is the Dual SIM card slot (supports 4G Lite) which also houses the dedicated SD card slot
At the right hand side of the phone you have the volume controller and the power button.
If you look behind the device, you’ll see that the speaker grills have also been uniquely placed at the back of the device.
Now we’ve gone through the amazing features of the Gionee A1 Lite, It’s time to power up!
With a beautiful well-arranged home screen that is customisable as you want, we are all set and ready to go!
So there you have it! Our official unboxing and first impression of the Gionee A1 Lite.
Overall, The A1 Lite is a sleek premium device with a trendy design. It also comes with very beautiful and easy to use interface. It comes with a 20MP front camera that delivers professional quality images and videos. Ultimately the Gionee A1 Lite is a smartphone for users who like an ‘always on’ lifestyle and it also promises something impressive for the selfie enthusiasts.
In order to reshape the way public service is provided and managed, the Federal Government on Tuesday, 8th of August 2017 said it would partner Huawei to create smart cities in Nigeria.
Minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, stated this in Abuja, at a Smart Cities two-day multi-stakeholders international summit, sponsored by Huawei, in collaboration with Smart Cities Nigeria, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Works, Housing and Power, Federal Capital Territory Administration and Ministry of Environment.
According to Shittu, “More people now have access to smart phones. Experts said that smart phones users in Africa will increase from 75 million in the first quarter of 2016 to 512 million 2018.
“Smart Cities would promote open data is one of the advantages of smart city. Smart City helps to manage government resources. It also helps to get more revenue for the government.
“Nigeria is a journey of greatness and together we will arrive at the destination of our dreams. In order to encourage competition among States and Local governments, the Ministry of Communications would soon launch the Smart City competition, this is to encourage them to take a bolder steps go the level of digital technology.
Barrister Adebayo Shittu commended Huawei Technologies Nigeria Limited on their continuous support in the development of ICT in Nigeria and also urged other stakeholders to partner with the ministry to create smart cities in Nigeria.
Managing Director Huawei Technologies Nigeria Limited, Mr. Tank Li, said the development and widespread application of digital technologies had transformed lives in a profound way.
He noted, “Data flow and economic development have become the big trends of our time; digital economy is a new form of economy in which everyone can share.
“Digital economy refers to an economic system in which digital technologies are widely applied, revolutionizing the whole economic environment and activities. Digital economy is also a brand new socio-political and economic system in which all information and commercial activities are digitised.
“Businesses, consumers and governments do business via the Internet, allowing for rapid business growth. Digital economy focuses on commodities and services whose production, distribution, and sales all rely on digital technologies.
“We project in the near future a digital economy that will bring about enormous changes in society. We simply have no way of knowing how deep and far-reaching these changes will be. However, we can be sure of one thing, that ICT will be the cornerstone of this digital economy.
“In our philosophy, the digital economy has three defining characteristics: All things will have the ability to sense, all things will be connected, and all things will be intelligent.
“The existence of these three defining characteristics depends entirely on advanced ICT. In an intelligent world, devices will play the role of the “feelers” in an all-sensing environment. Networks will connect everything, and the cloud will be the source of intelligence behind all things. These three elements form a synergetic architecture of devices, information pipes, and the cloud.”
He said, “This fourth industrial revolution is going to impact people’s lives in unimaginable ways and this will happen through the convergence of the cyber and physical worlds. The Internet of Things is automatic ‘smart’ communication between objects, through the internet.
“McKinsey Global Institute says in a report last year that IoT could have a total economic impact of $4 trillion to $11 trillion a year by 2025. IoT pervades many areas of life.
“For example, inside Nestle Malaysia Bhd’s headquarters in Petaling Jaya, there is a room with a huge screen covering an entire wall that tracks key words related to the company’s products on the Internet.
“The sales force social studio is where Nestle’s Malaysian digital acceleration team, which was set up in early 2014, analyses consumer trends specifically for the company’s social media campaigns and market research.
“But this is only one aspect of IoT, another is efficiency. The data collected is used to make businesses more efficient and better able to react.
“Nigerian government has realized the potential of its digital economy. Unlocking the dividends of digital economy becomes imperative in the face of dwindling oil revenue with increasingly pressure on the economy evident in budgets deficit, infrastructural deficit, high unemployment rate, harsh business environment and corruption amongst others.
“Federal government is about to launch the “Smart Nigeria Digital Economy Project” that aims to solve efficiency problems and create leapfrog opportunities in the economy for the next 10 years.
“Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Okechukwu Enelamah said the financial services within the country’s digital economy would add $88 billion to the gross domestic product (GDP) and create more than 3 million jobs within 10 years. The potential gains of the digital economy will manifest in digital accounts, payments, mobile money, health and educational services along with other sectors of the economy.
“I fully agree with the fact that, ICT-enabled technologies and solutions has the huge potential to serve as a major accelerator of the vision of Smart Nigeria Digital Economy and its sustainable development goal.
“As a global leading ICT solution provider, Huawei’s products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than one third of the world’s population.”
Gionee is particularly keen on boasting about its selfie and battery capabilities with the release of the Gionee A1 Lite.
The A1 Lite promises something impressive for the selfie enthusiasts with an impressive 20 MP front camera and on the rear is a 13 MP shooter with auto focus capabilities and LED flash. The A1 Lite also comes with exciting modes like Face beauty, Panorama, HDR, PicNote, Professional, Night, Smart scan, GIF, Smart scene, Time-lapse, Text recognition, Mood photo, Filter, Translation, card scanner, Slow motion, Star shot, Beautified video, Guardlines, Antibanding, Countdown, which supports 1080p video recording — Be the first to experience it here
The A1 Lite uses a 4-Cell/Quadra technique that compounds 4 pixels into one sensor unit. This means it can capture 4 times the amount of light, which improves image quality greatly, especially in low light.
The Gionee A1 Lite doesn’t just come with a Super camera, it also comes with a super battery, a Non-removable Li-Ion 4000 mAh battery that gives you the freedom to go and on without worry.
Expand your world with a 5.3 inch HD (1280 X 720 pixels) IPS display, which is great for watching movies.
The A1 Lite is powered by a 1.3 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor. It has 3GB RAM and it runs on Android 7.0 Nougat operating system with Amigo 4.0 UI on top of it. The smartphone comes with dual SIM and is also 4G enabled.
Gionee A1 Lite offers dual SIM feature as one would expect. Connectivity options also include micro USB, Bluetooth 4.1, and Wi-Fi. And of course, you also get GPS with A-GPS for finding your way around.
Ultimately the Gionee A1 Lite is a smartphone for users who would like to avoid hooking up to a power outlet frequently and also promises something impressive for the selfie enthusiasts.
The Gionee A1 Lite will be available in red, black and gold colours and it will be available in Nigeria before the end of August.
Tizeti has just launched Unlimited Speed to combine with its Unlimited Download wifi internet service to prospective subscribers in Gbagada and Anthony neigbourhoods.
With its recent upgrade, Tizeti is piloting this new experience to residents and businesses located around Gbagada, Anthony, Ogudu, Maryland and Environs.
Subscribers can stream TV shows and movies without worrying about data caps and expensive prices of other network providers.
With access to over 5000+ channels, consumers can also take advantage of our US & UK IP Address. able to connect any Wi-Fi enabled tablet, Smart TV, IPTV, game console, set top box and phone to obtain a US IP Address.
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As part of its product development agenda to enrich customers’ experience, leading internet service provider Spectranet 4G LTE has introduced the new Pebble MiFi that comes with unique classy features matched with speed and reliable data services
The Pebble Mifi device, an addition to the Spectranet device family, will enable subscribers to connect more to the world and get value; affordability, speed and unbeatable service.
The new Pebble Mifi is artistic and comes with 30GB data for #20,000. It is equally handy and easy to move around for indoor and outdoor purposes and has a long battery life. In addition, customers will enjoy free unlimited night browsing from 1am -7am.
Mike Ogor, Head Marketing, Spectranet 4G LTE, stated that the Pebble MiFi will bring the world closer to the brand’s customers and internet users in Nigeria.
“The new Pebble Mifi is a great addition to our family of devices, offering great internet experience at affordable price. The device will enable our customers to connect more to the world flourishing with possibilities and connections.
“As a customer-centric brand, we are making a bold statement with the Pebble Mifi that more value will be derived from our devices. This device is giving them a lot more data at an affordable rate’’.
The new device can be purchased at Spectranet sales outlets and channel partner shops around you.
Shahin Nouri, Chief Executive Officer of Coollink, has just announced the upcoming launch of a brand new service that will bring broadband satellite internet to consumers in Nigeria.
The new service has been dubbed “Asta”, which means “Star” in Danish. While there are other satellite internet services available in Nigeria, Asta will stand apart for numerous reasons.
According to Abdurrahman Mubi, Senior Technical Manager at Coollink, the service will be highly available and completely tailored to the needs and demands of Nigerian consumers; it will be affordable, will cover the whole Nigerian territory and will offer features such as speeds of up to 20 Mbps, data rollover and free night zone.
“Our resources will be sculpted to strategically meet the needs of the Nigerian market to provide a better satellite broadband experience that is customized for the region”, says Mubi.
Asta will be launched in August by Coollink, partner of Konnect Africa, a company set up by Eutelsat in 2015.
Asta will continue this tradition with high speed Internet access available for consumers and enterprises across the Nigerian territory and beyond. When it comes to enterprise applications, Asta will benefit companies in virtually every niche. With premier connectivity and infrastructure, clients will be able to use Asta for everything from Small Office Home Office and Enterprise applications to complex Government solutions.
Asta will also be available for residential customers at affordable rates in areas where broadband service was inexistent. The service will be delivered using antennas as small as 74 cm in diameter, which can be easily installed in the most difficult of terrains and in as little as two hours.
“We will have nationwide and Africa-wide resellers to ensure that Asta is available to consumers all over”, says Tayo Sadare, Service Delivery Manager at Coollink.“We have one of the most reliable and diverse network capabilities so you can increase up-time, improve scalability, and materialize operational efficiency. We are not your typical ISP – we own our network, we master our solutions, and always go the extra mile,” she added.
Coollink has forged its name as a major ISP in Nigeria and across Africa with a high level of customer satisfaction and the aim to create a better user experience for customers. Known as one of the most reliable ISPs in the region, Coollink is proud to make it easy for its customers to focus on the task at hand as opposed to the reliability of their Internet connection.
About Coollink Coollink is a member of Steam Broadcasting and Communications, Ltd., part of the AIM Group Holding Company. Coollink is a Nigerian ISP and system integrator with headquarters in Lagos and a nationwide presence in Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Kano. Coollink’s goal is to be able to provide internet access to everyone and everywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, making a positive impact on society and individuals.
About Konnect Africa — initiative by EUTELSAT Set up by Eutelsat in 2015, Konnect Africa aims to be the leading player in providing state-of-the-art satellite broadband solutions to telecom operators and internet service providers throughout the African continent. Konnect Africa’s ambition is to boost social and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing affordable broadband connectivity everywhere thus reducing the digital divide. With the aim of “taking broadband further”, Konnect Africa is launching commercial service in 2017 and expects to cover most of Sub Saharan Africa by 2019.
SystemSpecs has released the full version of its Remita Mobile Application, for both Android and Apple users, to help individuals and businesses manage their accounts across multiple banks, settle bills of various kinds and generally stay in control of their finances.
The release of the full version of the app is coming after its beta version was released on the Android platform in March of this year. With the full release of Remita Mobile App on Google playstore and Apple app store, millions of Nigerians with accounts in any commercial bank can easily access their account balances on one screen, conveniently make and receive payments across various bank accounts, and settle bills to several merchants within the private and public sectors from their mobile phone.
An exciting feature of Remita App is that it allows users, whether individuals or businesses, to request payments from anyone in style. At a click, they can simply share a QR code via email, WhatsApp and other social media platforms. All the payer would need to do is to snap the QR code from their smartphone or tap their device against the biller’s to complete transactions.
For SME owners, they can easily switch between their business and personal profiles and also translate their existing physical process flows into a virtual form. As a result individuals, who for instance play different roles in various organisations as transaction approvers, would be able to play such roles using Remita Mobile App from their mobile phone – without needing to make physical appearances at work.
“Remita App places so much power in the hands of users by making it much easier and faster for them to manage their accounts across various banks and settle bills, on-the-go,” said John Obaro, Managing Director of SystemSpecs.
“It is particularly exciting that so much can be done from the comfort of their mobile device, without needing any other mobile app, any token, or visiting any bank branch.”
In addition to the features earlier made available on the app during its beta release, users of Remita Mobile App will now enjoy a number of new features which would enable them to seamlessly make payments for others, view their payslip, and manage their business and personal accounts.
“As an organisation, we strongly believe that there is no ceiling to innovation. As a result, we are always working to surpass expectations and increase the ease experienced by individuals and businesses. Among other benefits, the power to make more financially intelligent decisions is now at their fingertip,” said Adédèjì Olówè, Executive Director, Products and Services, at SystemSpecs.
The security of access and transactions on the platform has been prioritised through standard industry security measures as well as specific security layers built into the app. Such measures include Personal Security Number, fingerprint authentication and One-Time Password (OTP) verification.
Developed by SystemSpecs, Nigeria’s leading financial technology firm, Remita App is the mobile version of the award-winning Remita payment solution which has for more than a decade helped many individuals and organisations to make and receive payments easily.
By now you would have heard that Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company, formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria recently morphed into 9mobile, unveiling the new name and logo whilst promising to continuously provide innovative and value-adding propositions which it has delivered since inception 9 years ago.
At a press briefing in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer, 9mobile, Boye Olusanya, said the new brand identity reflects the bold and creative attributes which the organization shares with its valued subscribers.
The telco said that the new name and brand is a deliberate representation and confirmation of its Nigerian heritage and 9ja-centricity. Although its name and brand changes, it assured its customers that the values on which it operates remain the same.
The new logo, a number-themed one, represents resilience and continuity and also reflects the network’s futuristic perspective. The colour green, both its light and dark variants, reflects vibrancy, dynamism, life, and youth as well as the brand’s ‘Nigerianness’.
Rebranding has commenced at all of the company’s offices, Experience Centres, online and physical touch points, to facilitate seamless integration, as 9mobile guards its position as the most customer-centric and leading innovative telecoms company in Nigeria.
Director, Brand and Experience, 9Mobile , Elvis Ogiemwanye
Vice President, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Ibrahim Dikko; Chief Executive Officer, Boye Olusanya; Chief Financial Officer, Funke Ighodaro and Vice President, Marketing, Adebisi Idowu all of 9mobile at the launch of 9mobile’s new brand identity
Global payments leader Visa has launched mVisa, its innovative mobile payment service, in Nigeria. The solution is being rolled out across Africa.
Consumers from Visa’s Nigerian partner banks can pay with any mobile phone wherever mVisa is accepted. mVisa transactions are processed via Visa’s global network, VisaNet, applying the same scale, security and reliability as any other Visa transaction.
From today, Diamond Bank, Fidelity Bank and First Bank will offer their customers the convenience of mVisa through their mobile banking apps. Access Bank, Ecobank, United Bank for Africa and Zenith Bank will go live with mVisa in the coming weeks. Nigeria is the first market to provide customers the convenience of making cross-border payments using mVisa.
Speaking at the launch event, Andrew Torre, President for Visa Sub-Saharan Africa said, “Small and medium merchants in particular, no longer have to invest in expensive point of sale infrastructure as mVisa gives them the freedom to accept payments in a convenient, secure and affordable manner that their customers trust.”
“We are very excited to see more and more merchants come on board every day as they begin to understand the benefits that mVisa brings, including real-time notifications of payments and access to sales and transactions history. We have campaigns lined up for the coming months to support our merchants and encourage new customers to experience mVisa at various locations across Nigeria.” Torre said
“Today, Visa and its financial institution partners are, for the first time, providing the benefits of digital commerce to potentially everyone, everywhere across Nigeria and the African continent, bringing millions more people into the formal financial system.”
Diamond Bank’s Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Uzoma Dozie, stated that the launch of mVisa is timely and aligns with the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the digital growth strategy of the bank.
‘’With mVisa, Diamond Bank has raised the bar for cashless banking in Nigeria by maintaining its leadership role in driving digital financial revolution in the country. Our customers will be able to make everyday payments simply by using their mobile phones. I think mVisa is the biggest thing that has happened in the industry.”
Fidelity Bank CIO, Gbolahan Joshua, said: “mVisa is an innovative service that merges the everyday mobile phone to a payment solutions plan that is easy for our customers to use.
Our account holders will appreciate the convenience mVisa offers.”
FirstBank’s Group Head, E-Business, Chuma Ezirim said that the Bank would continue to embrace innovation to deliver superior services in the best way possible to its customers. ”Partnering with Visa to deliver mVisa is part of the FirstBank’s strategy to deliver reliable, secure and convenient payment options to its esteemed customers. It further promotes our digital approach by delivering omni-channel experience to all our customers while enhancing our existing offerings”, he reiterated.
mVisa is already accepted at hundreds of locations across the country with many more merchants joining the ecosystem over the new few months. These merchants include DSTV, Konga.com, Genesis and IMAX Cinemas, Hard Rock Café, Quickteller and Spar.
The mVisa implementation in Nigeria benefited from the Visa Developer Platform, which allowed all partner banks the ability to integrate the mVisa APIs directly into their mobile banking apps. While rolling out a new solution with a bank typically can take a very long time from development to implementation and testing, utilizing the Visa Developer Platform interface reduced the time taken significantly. This helped to speed up the number of banks who have been able to roll out the mVisa solution in Nigeria.
mVisa is now live in Nigeria, Kenya, India, Rwanda and Egypt with plans to launch across Africa.
About Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate one of the world’s most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid or pay later with credit products. For more information, visit usa.visa.com/about-visa, visacorporate.tumblr.com and @VisaNews. Visa contact: Emily Kaiga
Corporate Communications
Visa sub-Saharan Africa
T: +204285016
Mob : +254708516544
E-mail: ekaigaad@visa.com
The education technology market is growing rapidly and expected to hit $252 billion globally by 2020, according to a 2017 Kahoot! EdTrends Report.
Techcrunch described Edtech as the new fintech. This is because, similar to the recent growth of financial technology, the use of digital education tools is becoming a fast rising application of technology.
Amidst the growing list of edtech companies set up to disrupt the traditional way of doing things in schools is FlexiSAF; a Nigerian startup with a large vision for the future of African education. The company’s vision is to improve the quality of education in Africa at affordable cost using ICT and to create a sustainable business.
FlexiSAF is making a good start towards that goal. They are the creators of SAFSMS, a fully integrated school management software. SAFSMS is currently being used in over 400 schools to cut down the complexity of management. FlexiSAF’s target is to get 10,000 schools on-board in the next 10 years.
They are also the makers of distinction.ng, an e-testing platform and online admissions portal skools.ng, among several other solutions for nursery to tertiary institutions.
One unique thing about the startup is the sheer focus and passion for impacting education. Each member of its engineering team shares these 3 core values: Be Bold, Move Fast and Create Stuff, Focus on the User.
Currently, with over 50 employees and 5 offices across the country, FlexiSAF is gradually expanding its impact in the education sector and school life. One of their side projects, kidcoders.ng is focused on teaching kids of all ages to code.
“Personalized learning is the future of accessible, affordable and high-quality education to everyone and software has a very important role to play in that regards. How to provide a localized experience in that space is our ultimate goal in FlexiSAF” explains the CEO, Faiz Bashir.
As the CEO, he is focused on growing the company, establishing FlexiSAF’s great work culture and their role in the growing edtech sphere.
Catch Flexisaf on Instagram and Twitter to keep up with more of their activities.
Considering the fact that thousands of Nigerians are taking their businesses online, many want to know which web hosting company is the best in the country. Many Nigerian bloggers and entrepreneurs have hosted their business websites on several web companies in Nigeria and gotten their fingers burnt in the process, but it doesn’t have to be this way anymore. It is now time to switch to a new web company setting up shop in the country and enjoy the best of internet possibilities with ease.
HUB8 is the latest entrant into the Nigerian web space. It is a global web hosting company that has just launched in the country. HUB8 is an international web company in major countries of the world and recently launched in Nigeria with a dedicated website for Nigerian customers. Reliable and fast with 99.9% uptime, TechCabal caught up with HUB8’s Regional Manager for Emerging Markets, Dmitry Deniskin, for a brief chat and the following interview tells it all.
Can we meet you? Yes. My name is Dmitry Deniskin. I am the regional manager for HUB8, the global web hosting brand that just opened shop in Nigeria. I am Russian, but considering that Russia and Nigeria have a lot in common in terms of population and the entrepreneurial movement, my team has decided to launch in Nigeria and be the Growth Partner we’ve always been to online entrepreneurs everywhere.
Can you tell us about HUB8, your web hosting company? HUB8 is a Growth Partner for businesses all over the world. We are as real in Nigeria as we are in Russia and other parts of the world. We are basically into domains, hosting, and websites. Our core business is putting individuals and businesses on the internet, and giving online presence and visibility to businesses everywhere.
How is HUB8 different from the existing web companies in Nigeria? Our web hosting experience, powerful resources and distinctive products set us apart from the pack. We are launching with major web offerings that no businesses can resist or do without. For instance, we have a domains registration product that enables you to register your domains for cheap; we have an intuitive visual website builder that helps you with website creations; we have hundreds of premium designed interactive WordPress themes to give you elegant website themes from Themify.net; and our cPanel web hosting infrastructure is powered by SSDs and fully compatible with CMSs such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Magento and several others in the industry.
How much does each of these web package cost? That is where we are different from the others. You can obtain almost all of our products for FREE under our Free Plan offerings; and to sweeten the deal, you can enjoy free website backups, ultra-fast SSD disks, and non-existent ads under our FREE HOSTING PLAN. You may however have to pay a token as low as N350 for domain registration under our domain promos or even use your own domain with our free hosting without any initial fees.
And for how long will your Free Hosting Plans remain free? As your Growth Partner, we intend to keep our free hosting plans free forever to enable you run your internet businesses with ease and more profits! But things might change in the future and new users may be restricted from accessing several features of our offerings – that is why it is BEST for every serious person to register with us right away. And then, as your business grows, you can switch to any of our paid plans.
But what is the catch if you offer Nigerians free website plans? There is no catch at all. It is our way of encouraging people to bring their businesses online. As your Growth Partner, our business model is that we must grow together with our customers. So we are committed to our “No ads. 100% Free Hosting” vow. The storage space under the free plans offer is however limited to 500 MB per website and bandwidth is limited to 100 GB per month. The truth is that these parameters are even more than enough for e-commerce websites, not to mention personal blogs and corporate websites.
What are the domain extensions you have for Nigerian businesses? We have over 500 domain extensions for all business names. Our domain product caters to all niche categories across all industries – technology, business, news, sports, health, science, government, politics, arts, and blogs among others.We have .com, .xyz, .pw, .online, and .site among several others; and we are looking into adding domain extensions such as .ng and .com.ng to our portfolio. In fact, we have registered hub8.ng for our Nigerian users in adherence to NiRA’s efforts to promote national domain for Nigerians.The .ng and .com.ng domain extensions tell search engines that websites are domiciled within the country and this boosts SEO for the websites.
What payment options do you have for those who want to switch to a paid service? If anyone wants to switch from our free plans to our paid plans in order to access more dynamic features, you can use your VISA and Mastercard to make payments. And to prove that we are actually on ground for Nigerian customers, we have partnered with Flutterwave to accept payments from Nigerian banks such as Access Bank, Diamond Bank, GTBank, Zenith and UBA. You can equally use your Verve cards to make payments for domains and hosting among other products we have on offer.
Do you have an office in Nigeria? Yes, we have a staff on ground in Lagos and we look forward to setting up offices in other Nigerian cities as soon as we have more customers from within Nigeria. However, our core team at HUB8 works as a distributed team and with the aids of technology and digital innovations, we are able to provide local support to every customer anywhere in the world within minutes of getting in touch with us.
What is your last word for Nigerians? We want to encourage all Nigerians to tap into the potentials of the internet by moving their businesses online. With an average of about 190 million people, Nigerians have the education and the technological resources and the digital innovation to make more money online. You only need to partner with us at HUB8 as your Growth Partner to get you where you want to be in the internet world. We are cheap, we are fast, and we are globally reliable. Thank you!
There are days when you wish you could access fast and easy loans to take care of that urgent financial need. That wish has come true!
Etisalat Nigeria in partnership with Support Microfinance Bank has introduced KwikCash another innovative solution to meet the loan needs of Etisalat Subscribers.
With KwikCash, you can access loans of up to N100, 000 just by dialling *561# with your Etisalat line and get credited in minutes.
Follow these 5 easy steps to use KwikCash:
Step 1: Dial *561#
Step 2: Follow the USSD menu to ‘’Request Loan’’
Step 3: Select preferred loan offer
Step 4: Select bank and input your 10-digit NUBAN
Step 5: Confirm repayment amount and accept terms and conditions.
To repay your KwikCash loan, it’s as simple as:
Repay Step 1: Dial *561#
Repay step 2: Follow the USSD menu to ‘’Pay Loan’’
They are the ones tapping away at screens, throwing likes at funny videos, sharing all things amazing online, stirring conversations and making faces with their photos!
Come to think of it, they are not just buying cars, they are sharing rides; they don’t queue up at banks, they just dial short codes or launch an app! They window shop from their phones and only buy after reading a tonne of reviews, you call them annoying, we call them the revolution! Are you one of them?
Millennials are poised to reshape the African economy as we know it; their unique experiences are changing the way we buy and sell, forcing African commerce giants and startups to rethink how they do business.
How can innovative products, entrepreneurial ventures and promising ideas transform into sustainable economic growth for Africa? This is the central question of the 2017 Africa as a platform’s Conference organised by Q21 Solutions in partnership with ADE Digital.
Understanding how millennials think, what they do and why they do what they do is crucial for creating a transformational change in the African Technology and Business landscape. These and more are the questions we are finding answers to at the 2017 Africa as a Platform tagged ‘Machines, Millennials, Money’ and this year, we seek to find the possibilities that emerge when more and more young African innovators connect and shape our continent of 1.2 billion people.
Holding on the September 28th, 2017 at the Landmark Events Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa as a platform’s conference engages the foremost Information technology innovators and other leaders of society to shape continental and industry agendas.
Are you an African innovator with a brilliant product or an idea using Information and Communications technology to solve any of Africa’s economic challenges, then register on www.africaasaplatform.com/register to submit your entries and be part of the innovators showcase, exhibition and pitch.
Perhaps you want to take-over Africa with your online venture? Perhaps you just want to extend beyond the borders of your current African country into the neighbouring ones? There could be no better domain name to target your marketplace or web audience than a .africa (dotAfrica) domain name.
.AFRICA is the top-level domain name system for Africa and is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Domains carrying the .africa extension are now available from Web4Africa, on a first-come, first-served basis.
The benefits of a .africa domain name include showcasing your brand and your commitment to the African continent, establishing your brand’s regional influence and acquiring valuable online real-estate in the fast-growing and high-potential market called Africa.
Registering and activating a .africa domain name is easy. Get in touch with Web4Africa, an ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar and start the process of securing a .africa domain name. .africa domain reseller accounts with a robust API access are also available.
.AFRICA domains are currently available at a slightly premium pricing, giving the opportunity to procure valuable domain names. The domains would be available at more regular pricing from 2nd August 2017. Web4Africa has been active since the launch of .africa and was able to register valuable domain names including sport.africa, market.africa, web4.africa among several others.
Established in 2002, Web4Africa is an ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar offering web services from its own servers and network equipment from 4 datacentres across 3 African countries.
Web4Africa offers affordable & reliable Web Hosting in Nigeria. Literarily.
From a world-class Tier-III datacentre in Lagos Nigeria, the company offers Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers to clients worldwide. The fast delivery of web content from the datacentre to end-users is unrivalled considering Web4Africa peers extensively with local Internet Service Providers, carriers, telcos and large networks.
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Lagos, Nigeria – July 3rd, 2017, INFINIX, Nigeria’s leading and preferred smartphone brand unveiled the new look Infinix Note series with the launch of Infinix Note 4/Note 4 pro today.
Infinix Note 4 is designed for the youths to empower and enable them to go beyond, it is also the 4th Generation of the Infinix Note Series, with the first of its kind Stylus pen ‘Xpen’. It also comes with the Infinix Note series innovation of super-fast charge. The Note 4 has the theme ‘5 minutes charge 250 minutes talk time’ and a battery life of 4500MAH, which charges five times faster and is equipped with Xcharge 4.0.
Infinix Note 4 comes in 2 versions the ‘Note 4 & Note 4 Pro’, which are both budget friendly and runs on 7.0 Android. It also comes with other remarkable features such as 5.7FHD screen, 13MP AF back camera, 8MP-mega pixels front camera, Xpen, Octa-core 1.3GHz 64bits, 32GB ROM, with expandable storage space to 128gb and 3GB RAM, 4G enabled and XOS 2.3.
“This is an historic moment for Infinix as we bring about a new era for our Note series,” says Bruno Li, Regional Manager Infinix Africa as he took questions at unveiling in Lagos.
With a promise to customers to retain its DNA of stylish Design, big screen, big battery and super fast charge. Infinix Mobility pioneered the powerful smartphone series with the successful launch of Infinix Note 3 in 2016. The launch, which received a massive reception, also led to the smartphone becoming Nigeria’s most searched Android smartphone on Google – the first time a mid-range smartphone has taken the search lead.
“The Note 3 was a huge success last year which tells us we have passed the threshold of being a new brand to being a strong household name in this market, with the Infinix Note 4 we want to empower customers to take charge and make the needful change with their lifestyle,” Bruno adds.
The Infinix Note 4 and Note 4 Pro comes in 3 unique colors, champagne Gold, Ice Blue and Milan Black. To be a part of the new Infinix Note revolution, customers can pre-order the new Infinix Note 4 at all partner stores in Nigeria and get free Dual-Noise cancelling earphones or 3D speakers when they pre order before the 7th of July.
Infinix Note 4 and Note 4 Pro will be available at all retail stores nationwide online and offline on the 7th of July 2017.
About INFINIX ‘The future is now’
Infinix mobility is Africa’s preferred premium smartphone brand established in 2012 by Transsion Holdings.
Infinix offers users across thecontinent a unique smartphone experience connecting consumers with its product portfolio ranging from Hot, Hot S, and Note & Zero. Infinix is considered a leader in its market segment for mid-ranged smartphones in Nigeria.
Infinix Mobility Nigeria won the best Mobile phone brand at Beacon of ICT awards 2016 and most preferred smartphone brand at Titans of Technology Africa 2016. More information: Infinixmobility
Siemens Nigeria Limited says embracing latest technology is pivotal if oil and gas operators hope to get as much value out of investment and cut production cost.
The oil and gas industry is driven by quality and irrespective of market conditions; the sector is such a CAPEX drive industry that there is a need for advancement is technology.
The company observes there is strategic need for operators in the industry to raise their bars so as to have an improved platform performance with very simple equipment.
Onyeche Tifase, managing director, Siemens Limited observed that the down turn in oil price has affected the industry which was what necessitated Siemens developing into oil and gas portfolio.
Tifase while speaking at an oil and gas programme in Lagos said Siemens decision to introduce new mechanical solutions into the Nigeria market is from the stand point of efficiency she said, aside from ensuring the solution last, are environmentally friendly; guarantee from the investment made, it must also be sustainable.
According to her, “Our solutions are built to stand the test of time. Our mechanical solutions are also intelligent and improve its performance.”
She further said that the aim of the stakeholders’ engagement in the oil and gas industry is to see how ICT and digitalization can add value to clients and help get deeper insight disclosing that it represents the next phase of development for Siemens.
Patrice Laporte, vice president oil and gas, North America, Siemens, reiterated that the programme is basically to bring the latest technology of Siemens available into the Nigerian market.
Laporte observes that operators in the industry are looking at reducing cost. “This cannot be done by the traditional way, rather operators need to think differently. What we are proposing is that with new technology, new software tools would bring release to either assets that are existing or new assets” he said.
To him, operators in the oil and gas industry have to make a switch in their minds that the era of oil price hitting 100 dollars per barrel is over adding that 50 dollars is going to stay the long term”.
He disclosed that to bring down the price in the offshore, operators need to think differently. So software are the ones that is going to change the industry because it will help operators to do platform more efficiently and a lot quicker in a way which would in turn save money.
On the solutions to safeguard pipelines, Laporte assures that Siemens has a portfolio that takes into account the challenges of militants attack on oil installation “We have a solution around pipeline integrity because we know in Nigeria it is a peculiar situation. We do have technology that would make things safer particularly in pipelines”.
A little over a year ago, TECNO released the best-selling 7-inch tablet in the country; the DroiPad 7C Pro. It has enjoyed massive sales, and is still top in the market. After successfully producing the most widely accepted DroiPad, TECNO has come back with a bang! The giant company has released a more remarkable tablet for the African market, boldly named the TECNO DroiPad 7D.
With the DroiPad 7C Pro’s cost-effectiveness, ruggedness and simplicity, it endeared itself to not only the youths but the elders as well. As TECNO Mobile’s latest device, the new DroiPad 7D has some major improvements and worthy upgrades on the 7C Pro.
The TECNO DroiPad 7D is the first TECNO tablet device to debut the new Android 7.0 Nougat OS. Having the Nougat on your device means more fun is brought to you; especially through the multi-window feature, which allows you to run two applications simultaneously. You can watch a movie, while texting, and browsing.
Specifications of the DroiPad 7D
The device comes with 2MP front camera with flashlight and a much more higher 5MP rear camera with LED Flash as opposed to the 7C Pro with 2MP. The LED flash allows users to take amazing pictures in low-light environments.
As for the battery life, even though 7D is powered by a same 3000mAh large battery with 7C Pro, it can offer more time for you to enjoy yourself with the Super Power Manager. It provides up to 9 hours of web browsing, 8 hours of video streaming and 43 hours of music.
Besides the internal 16GB ROM, users can enjoy additional storage of up to 128GB through the microSD card5 slot, offering even more content storage versatility.
Amazingly, the DroiPad 7D comes with a Kid Zone allowing parents to manage the content and time kids can watch and play on the device. To give a better protection for your kids, it will automatically turn into eye-protection mode at night and it gives out alarms if the kids are reading while laying down.
Speaking about the device that has been tagged ‘DroiPad Joy Life’ the General Manager of the TECNO’s Tablet Business Unit, Mr Steven Huang said, “the DroiPad 7D is designed to be a costeffective device to fulfil the need of entertainment, just as DroiPad 7C Pro did.”
He further stated, “In view of the achievement of DroiPad 7C Pro in the market, I believe that the DroiPad 7D will get a bigger success. It has been upgraded and has been well crafted to bring enhanced performance and maximum productivity to its users.”
The new DroiPad 7D without a doubt will be one of the most sought after devices in African mobile market. It will be sold in more than 20 countries across Africa and the Middle East. This device is now available for sale across all retail outlets in Nigeria at a recommended retail price of N33, 000.
Afrobytes brings together entrepreneurs, business executives, CEOs, academics, innovators, investors, venture capitalists, tech enthusiasts and media to explore business opportunities between the African tech ecosystem and players in the global tech world. More than a conference, Afrobytes is a marketplace to meet key players of the global African tech ecosystem.
The current list of participants hail from Silicon Valley, Europe, as well as emerging countries in Africa and Asia. In a short time, Afrobytes has become the largest and most influential African tech event in Europe.
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What is the most rewarding experience you’ve ever had? Getting hitched to your bae? Or scoring that well paying job? Or getting that scholarship to study abroad? Or Welcoming your new baby? While these moments can be the most breathtaking feeling you might experience, nothing beats that moment when a beep on your phone notifies you of an inbound credit alert.
Imagine walking out of a store after making a purchase, smartphone in hand, and instantly getting a notification that you’ve just been gifted some juicy bonus coupons detailing exclusive discounts for products and services you love simply because you made a little spend. A world where bonus deals and juicy rewards on your spend with your phone is possible now, with the NOWNOW app.
NOWNOW is the mobile payments platform that lets you pay bills quickly, top up your data or airtime instantly, send and receive money easily and gives you rewards everytime you spend using the app.
NOWNOW is the mobile payments platform that lets you pay bills quickly, top up your data or airtime instantly, send and receive money easily and gives you rewards everytime you spend using the app.
Just download and install the NOWNOW app from Google Play store on your Android smartphone, sign up and use your NOWNOW wallet to fatten your real one with; 5% Cashback on Airtime
Money is the best gift you can get, and just like that unexpected credit alert that puts a broad smile on your face, an airtime top-up with the NOWNOW app gives you;
5% Cashback on the value of airtime you recharge instantly
Real money credited directly into your NOWNOW mobile wallet
Funds you can cash out from your NOWNOW agents
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For every transaction you make from your NOWNOW wallet, you get access to discount coupons. Save on expenses with these discount coupons to your favourite vendors that you can use to pay less for those things you enjoy without going broke.
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Content consumption in the mobile industry has continued to witness a dramatic rise since the inception of Value Added Services. Despite some reports of a slowdown based on economic factors, user demand for content based services is still on the rise. One undeniable fact is the exponential growth in smartphone usage as mobile technology has taken over various segments of the African market thereby unlocking new opportunities. Mobile phone users have become encouraged to view content as a source of information, update on new trends and also solution to everyday problems. Caller Tunes is one of the most successful content based value added services which is widely being used all over the continent. Content has continued to penetrate across the mobile and digital ecosystem.
Tapping into the right content has become an issue of growing concern in the VAS industry due to the consistent demand for content based services. Taking into cognizance the African market, entertainment VAS is widely consumed because it is designed for mass appeal and leisure time compared to other sectors such as the Mobile Commerce VAS. To counter this difference and help bridge the gap, content are content providers should focus on providing content related to other aspects of the Telco industry that will be of increased value to consumers.
There are various aspect of modern day technologies in the IT world that have become an open door for the content providers in the VAS industry. Some of these aspects which should be explored and integrated in contents are IOT, big data and artificial intelligence. IOT has become the next phase of modern technology whereby the internet uses content and technologies made available to provide solutions. Big data is a rave in the moment, using user analysis, behavior and streamlined information to provide value to users. Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed a surge making it more possible to integrate machine learning. Another aspect of technology that should be further explored and integrated into VAS content is Location based solutions, as they will provide increased value for users.
Key factors to be considered when integrating and developing VAS content are consumers’ needs and wants, fun and enjoyability, affordability, time saving, convenient use, ease of access to information and lastly a comparative analysis of customer behavior. These would serve as a guideline for content developers in a bid to provide value and solve problems. Despite these considerations, it is also advisable to key into multilingualcontent varieties which will afford users the flexibility to access content in different languages.
It is not enough to develop VAS content; acquiring and retaining subscribers is equally as important. Promotion is key to acquiring subscribers to content platforms that deliver requisite value. In retaining subscribers, it is paramount forcontent providers to maintain a standard of delivering timely and relevant content of great quality to their subscribers.
Finally, in as much as content based services have become the rave of the moment, more emphasis should be laid on providing an even playing ground for every sector of the VAS industry; new opportunities that modern technology in IT has provided should be inculcated in providing relevant content to solve users’ practical recurrent problems in a more flexible manner.
What if I told you there is an easy way to win free airtime while having fun? EasyWin games is a premium real time multiplayer games app, which is the first of its kind in Nigeria. It is a mobile application with highly-rated graphics that allows you convert airtime to bidcoins, use this bidcoins to bid against other game opponents, upon winning you double your bidcoins and eventually accumulate surplus bidcoins which can be converted or redeemed as airtimes.
The app has a suite of innovative and interactive games namely Mission Ludo, Draughts Kings, Whot Bash, Bottle Smash and Quiz Scholar. The easywin game is subscription based and can only be subscribed with an MTN line but can be accessed on any data bundle.
All the EasyWin Games are accessible only on android phones from the Easywin Management app which can be downloaded here.
Here are the 5 awesome single player & Multiplayer games you can play on EasyWin Games :
Mission Ludo: This is Ludo on steroids.A uniquely styled ludo with which you can catch all the feel of a navy war and rescue your men from some of the most deadly prisons of the world. It is a multiple player game where you get to customize the look and feel of your game board and use leaderboards to keep track of your opponents and their position.
Whot Bash: This is a highly upgraded version of the Whot you know. It has superb graphics, timed levels and can be played alone (single player) or with friends (multiplayer) on the go.
Draughts Kings: On this game, you get to rule the world of draughts, win duels, socialise and win rewards during game plays. On Draughts Kings, you get to play games in real-time with other players online all over the country.
Bottle Smash: Swipe and match your way through hundreds of fun levels in this bottle puzzle adventure. Bottle Smash is completely free to play for life after first initial subscription. You can play bottle smash on different games modes – Target Score, Timed Levels, Obstacles, Numbered Moves etc.
Quiz Scholar: How smart are you? You can find out on Quiz Scholar as you have fun challenging your friends and loved ones in insightful time based quizzes on any topic – entertainment, sports, riddle, bible, science etc.
All the games can be accessed once you download the the app at easywingames.com/app (Available only on Android Phones).
Some of the cool Features in the EasyWin Games are:
Convert & Redeem Airtime using Virtual game coins: You can convert your normal MTN airtime into Easywin game coins, and use these coins to bid against other game opponents. Upon winning you double your bid-coins and either convert your accumulated bid-coins to airtime or continue using it to play & win more.
Referral Bonus:EasyWin gifts you 40 free bid-coins redeemable as airtime everytime you refer someone and he/she successfully subscribes, aside that bonus, you also get 20 free bid-coins redeemable as airtime on your first subscription. All coins are redeemable as Airtime to buy data, make calls or use as you wish.
Chat to Play: You can chat with your favorite listed friends and loved ones and invite them to a game play from within the app. You can even poke those offline to get their attention and start a game.
Random Player: Very note worthy is the fact that you can meet new friends on EasyWin Games. How? It has a random player feature that pairs you up to random people on the service to play games with. It gets cooler, as you play against friends – or random people as the case might be – whoever wins the game wins the coins staked and these coins are redeemable as airtime for data, calls or sms.
On the app, you can register & subscribe at N10 daily or N50 weekly to get unlimited access to all the games. So hurry, Download the EasyWin mobile app at easywingames.com/app and get playing. Remember, Easywin is only available to only Android & MTN Users for now.
Africa’s first dual front camera smartphone was unveiled last month by Infinix Mobility. The new smartphone Infinix S is the 2nd product from the brand’s lifestyle ‘HOT S’ series.
As the first dual front camera smartphone, Infinix S2 represents new innovation. The smartphone reinvents the notion of Selfies bringing about a whole new concept now known as the ‘Wefie’. The dual front cameras feature 8MP & 13MP independently, which covers 135 degrees wide angle with its lens.
The S2 camera is a game changer with face beautification features for the most amazing picture quality. For the best ‘Wefie’ the S2 also boosts group images with its Group beautification.
The new Infinix S2 comes in two variations, the S2 & S2 Pro featuring Dual front camera with front flash, 13mp back camera, 4G (LTE), Octa core processor, 16GB + 2GB – 3GB RAM, 5.2 HD Screen, 3000mah battery, XOS 2.2 (Infinix user interface) on Android 6.0 Marshmallow update available for 7.0.
The Infinix S2 & S2 Pro also has 16GB – 32GB ROM storage and its external storage is expandable up to 128GB.
The new Infinix S2 is available on Jumia.com.ng, all partner outlets nationwide, while the Infinix S2 Pro is only available at all Slot stores.
At an exclusive dinner event held at the Renaissance Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos on the 3rd of May 2017, Canon in partnership with their Nigerian distributor, Jamaica Trading Company officially launched two hero products into the Nigerian market- the EOS 5D Mark IV camera and E-series of PIXMA printers – E474 and E414
Canon invited its end-users to experience the newly launched products and Canon’s wide range of portfolio.
Also, Canon announced the winners of the ‘Celebrate Africa’ competition same night. The Campaign was originally activated in February 2017, through an online competition where Canon encouraged people from the African continent to submit images captured by them under any of the three categories: People of Africa, Africa’s Citylife or Africa’s Landscape and Wildlife.
See all the exclusive pictures from the event.
Cross section of reporters at the eventL-R: Mr Raul Gabat, Business Developer, CIG Marketing, Canon Middle East, Parag Kauangal, Product Manager, Photo Video, CCNA, Roman Troethandl, MD CCNA, Koji Sato, B2C Sales Development & Marketing Director, CANON EUROPE. Somesh Adukia – Regional Sales Director, Canon MIDDLE EAST and Rashad Ghani, ,Product Manager, OPP.Ill Rymz – Mc at the EventRobert D. Katz, Managing Director of EINSNERAMPER ACCOUNTANTS & ADVISORS posing in front his favorite selected images from the Celebrate Africa Competition.
You can hardly get any work done these days without stumbling on an ad informing you about an app promising to do something no one has ever done before. It’s either they are promising to make you feel a certain way or claiming the app lets you cook jollof rice with the touch of your finger tip. I got an email about something called ALAT and, like most people who were sadly led to believe that we could open accounts on Facebook, I thought to myself: “Africa’s first digital bank indeed.”
I must say well done to the people at ALAT and Wema Bank for this. “I don get ALAT” and here are 3 reasons why you should.
It Took About 5 Minutes. Really.
Yes, this is true. All I did was type in my BVN on the app, take a selfie and also take pictures of my ID card and utility bill. I thought the utility bill was going to be a hitch initially but I remembered I had a utility bill in my outbox from the last time I tried to open an account at a branch of another bank. The lady at this bank called me two days later saying the account couldn’t be opened because the photocopy of the bill I brought wasn’t clear so I had to send her another scanned copy. Thank goodness those times are gone. I haven’t seen anything like it before. 5 minutes and I had a transaction ready bank account on ALAT.
Free Debit Card Delivered to My House
Even after the account was opened I was still skeptical until I stumbled on the request for a card feature. You would think that this would come at a cost since they were delivering customized debit cards to my house but it was actually free. The design options were so cool I had to send screenshots to my friends to help me pick the best card. They didn’t let me pick the name to be written on the card, though, but the card was delivered to my house in two days and I activated it on the app instantly.
It Helps Me Achieve Goals
I kept exploring and I tell you it does everything. Internet subscription, bills, scheduled transfers, TV subscription and even airtime purchase. It also has a feature called “Goals” that actually helps me achieve my goals! This app was really created in my best interest because this singular feature is the only reason I have multiple bank accounts to begin with. It lets you put in your goals, how much they cost and determine how much you intend to save towards achieving them either daily, weekly or monthly. When it breaks it down to the little figures, it makes you feel like you can achieve anything in this life. You can also predetermine if you want to touch this money before the goal is complete or if you want to lock up completely.
Needless to say, this app has become my personal favorite, only second to the gram, and it makes me feel all type of ways. Beautiful and easy to use. Yes, ALAT still needs a little work to be done as it still has some bugs but the good news is their tech team is very responsive and are consistently updating the app to make it better. I have only one question for the people at ALAT – when are we going to start cooking jollof with ALAT?
Premier Internet Service Provider, Spectranet 4GLTE has been recognised with two awards by BusinessDay and Nigeria Communications Week for its innovative drive in the Broadband and Internet Service sector of Nigeria’s economy.
Spectranet 4G LTE, with fast and reliable internet service for the home and office, got Beacon of ICT Award, an award put together by Nigeria Communication Week as Broadband Company of the Year and BusinessDay’s award for the Most Innovative Internet Service Provider in 2017.
In separate remarks, BusinessDay and Nigeria Communications Week, organizers of the Beacon of Information and Communication Technology (BoICT) award lauded Spectranet for its innovative efforts at providing customers with fantastic internet service and experience.
Mr. Ken Nwogbo, Editor-in Chief of Nigeria Communications week Media Limited said, the Spectranet 4GLTE brand has been a pace setter in the subsector in the last one year offering, reliable internet services in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Ibadan. According to him, when Spectranet 4GLTE announced the change of identity, he was curious as a journalist knowing that the brand at that time needed more than a new identity to win subscribers and obviously the management of Spectranet are aware of the challenges and kept rolling out innovative content from data plans to strategic pricing and outlets development that consistently enable customers to engage with the brand.
However, Mr. Nwogbo commended the management for the various initiatives and hopes that the brand will sustain the momentum.
Meanwhile, BusinessDay outlined digging deep efforts, customer-base sustainability and innovative capacity as reasons for honouring Spectranet 4GLTE with the Most Innovative Internet Service Provider Award.
“These Awards showcase companies and institutions that contributed immensely to the sustainability of their customer-base, bottom-line, exploits of untapped markets, as well as the socio-economic development of our country”.
Chief Executive Officer, Spectranet 4G LTE, Mr. David Venn, dedicated both awards to all of the brand’s loyal customers for choosing the faster, smarter and more reliable internet service.
Mr. Venn added that the awards were recognition for hard work, innovation and are a call to action for Spectranet to keep pushing the boundaries in service offerings.
