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TeamApt is the name of the company I visited on Friday, 2nd March 2018, during my mini-tech tour. I promised to write about it, so here am I fulfilling that promise. Founded in 2015, TeamApt is a finTech company focused on delivering financial happiness to its clients through the use of technology. I arrived the… Read more A day at TeamApt, a fintech in Lekki – Lagos, Nigeria
A wise person once said, people enter Nigeria with money and come back with experience. I’ll explain. The Nigerian market, the Nigerian people, are special. Not to mention that our educational, logistics, technology and pretty much every other infrastructure is underdeveloped, so if you’re trying to introduce new products to us, you better be careful.… Read more A French Company Is Bringing Bicycle-Sharing To Lagos
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With online sales skyrocketing, the demand for an order-fulfillment solution has become pivotal for businesses to serve their customers’ needs. The best part of dispatch services is that it helps businesses focus on improving their products and services. deliveryman is one of such dispatching platforms that helps to fulfill orders delivery. Launched on January 16,… Read more deliveryman — get quality delivery service within Lagos
Tech startups in Lagos will benefit from the Lagos Innovates initiative. Photo: Errol Bennett – CNN Nigeria’s commercial hub is working hard to support tech startups in the city, with the launch of the Lagos Innovates initiative set to benefit the startup ecosystem in the country’s financial capital. The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF)… Read more Lagos Innovates Initiative Launched To Support Growth Of Nigerian Startups
Project Enable Africa, a community development initiative that advocates for the rights and empowerment of persons with disabilities in Africa, has launched a disability-friendly digital hub. The project, which is supported by the United States government through the Alumni Engagement Innovation Funds and the US Consulate Small Grant, is aimed at promoting the access of… Read more Tech hub for people living with disabilities launches in Lagos
A technology-based tricycle operation model that allows passengers to engage the services of tricycle riders using an app called Matattu was launched in Lagos on Wednesday. Samuel Ajiboyede, the co-founder of the service, speaking at the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Tricycle Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria, TOOAN, said the partnership… Read more Nigeria: Tricycle Networking APP Launches in Lagos
Nigeria’s startup ecosystem continues to be dominated by developments in Lagos, Africa’s largest city and the country’s commercial hub. But developers and stakeholders in the oil-rich southern part of the country are gradually building an ecosystem backed by local tradition, patient founders, supportive mentors and potentially easier access to funds from the money-spinning oil and…… Read more Nigeria’s Aba-made tech startups will challenge Lagos — Quartz
This post is a delayed version of our weekly newsletter. If you would like to receive timely summaries like this every week in your email box, you can subscribe here. On Thursday, the 7th of December 2017, Techpoint will host Fikayo Ogundipe, the CEO of Tolet.com.ng in the final Techpoint AMA Live Session for the year 2017. On this final edition, you… Read more A new hub is coming to Lagos
http://eepurl.com/1MXSP Uber; The online taxi hailing business in Nigeria has been successful but it has also been characterised by tussles with factors such as regulators, customers, the climate and other corollary challenges plaguing it. Hitherto the most interesting stakeholder in all this has been the driver. When they got wind of the “Uber opportunity”, they… Read more UBER’s headache in Lagos and how it can be managed
Are you a Gamer, Game developer or techie? Microsoft Nigeria is inviting you to its Tech and Gaming mixer at their Lagos office Microsoft Nigeria is asking gamers, game developers, developers and technology enthusiasts to meet with product managers and engineers from its Redmond Headquarters. In an invitation to gamers to a mixer… Read more Microsoft Nigeria invites you to join their Tech and Gaming Mixer in Lagos
The Police in Lagos has smashed an organised crime ring through which Nigerians buying phones on the internet were being robbed on a daily basis. Thirty-five-year-old Alade Olalekan and Olumide Oluwole, 31, contrived a means of returning fake money to those who they lure to the Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos, to make payment for… Read more How fake sellers of iPhones swindle victims using popular website – Lagos CP, Edgal