Over three exciting days at Lagos Fashion Week 2025, Facebook hosted its first-ever Facebook lounge experience, creating an immersive space that celebrated creativity, connection and community among young adults, designers, creatives, fashion enthusiasts and creators. This experience highlighted how more young adults are using Facebook to discover new interests, express themselves, and connect with the…
Airtel Africa Foundation has partnered on a Joint Initiative with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) and Cisco on capacity and digital skills development, under the Digital Transformation Centres (DTC) Initiative. The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide and promote digital inclusion by providing free Internet connectivity and digital skills…
A direct-selling firm, QNET, has stated its commitment to Nigeria through partnership, empowerment and giving back to the community. General Manager of QNET Nigeria, Ayokunmi Solesi, gave the commitment Wednesday during a webinar titled: “Beyond VCON: Media Insights from VCON 2025” to welcome back reporters that participated the forum which is a major convention for…
TD Africa, the leading technology distributor in sub-Saharan Africa, recently hosted a high- level delegation from HP to renew and review their strategic commitments and explore deeper collaboration opportunities. The meeting served as a crucial step toward advancing their joint mission to enhance technology accessibility across the continent. The meeting focused on unlocking new growth…
Nigeria’s fintech unicorn, Moniepoint, has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government’s digital economy agenda by setting aside a special funding program to support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across the country. Its Founder, Tosin Eniolorunda, through the Tosin Eniolorunda STEM Foundation said he has launched the Future Builders Fund, to support high-potential but under-resourced…
Nigeria will select its next space representative through an expanded democratic astronaut selection process, launched yesterday by the Space Exploration Research Agency (SERA). The initiative promotes community-selected space representation for Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Thailand, with citizens voting for their representatives through a blockchain- powered platform. The program transforms space access from an exclusive…
With a bouquet of innovative products and investment in infrastructure expansion and upgrade, 22 years on, Globacom continues to champion Nigeria’s digital future. LUCAS AJANAKU writes on the dynamic evolution of the telco and its new offer of Talk Masta and Welcome Bonus. National carrier, Globacom is intensifying its efforts to deepen digital connectivity across…
PayPal Holdings Inc. has committed $100 million investment to the Middle East and Africa, fueling innovation, supporting entrepreneurs, and driving inclusive economic growth in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital commerce regions. This strategic investment will be deployed through a mix of minority investments, acquisitions, PayPal Ventures funding, people, and technology deployments that will help…
United Nations agency for digital technologies, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Google, and musician, tech founder and philanthropist will.i.am have launched an initiative to bring artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics training to students in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and South Africa to establish the foundation for bringing AI and robotics skills training into schools across…
