Author: Akin Naphtal

The director general of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Joseph Ari, has said that the agency is currently putting finishing touches to the processes and modalities that will enable it to begin mass production of Android phones for Nigerians. According to the DG, apart from the need to widen the capacity of the machines involved in the mass production of Android phones, there was also the need for the agency to finalise the legal framework for the purpose of intellectual property rights. Ari said, “Yes,it is true that in June last year, we gave a sample of our android mobile…

Crypsense Digital Group a Kenyan-based Digital Assets Capacity Building & Management Platform is among the first African-based Web 3 startups to qualify for the Draper VeChain Web 3 Accelerator Program. A 12 Week Accelerator Program delivered globally to high-growth blockchain companies. The team pitched together with some of the top 15 globally fastest growing Web 3 startups in Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, Metaverse & GameFi to a panel of expert judges from the Web 3 industry from VeChain, Draper University & Cream and was qualified for the program. Draper University a leading pre-accelerator and Incubator in Silicon Valley that fosters the…

Kenyan startup Duhqa, a B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods in FMCG, cold chain and pharmaceuticals, has closed a US$2 million seed round to scale its service offering within Kenya and East Africa. Founded in 2021 by Victor Maina, Davis Angwenyi and Dudu Moilwa, Duhqa is a B2B retail-tech platform that empowers informal African merchants to digitally source and pay for inventory, and get delivery conveniently, and access short-term financing. The startup operated in stealth mode for much of last year and joined Techstars during the accelerator’s October 2021 batch. After raising US$150,000 in pre-seed funding last year,…

Cable Television and network firm, Altice, has released a statement on the rebranding of its subsidiary brand, Suddenlink, to Optimum. This move will bring together its telecommunications products and services. Suddenlink, now Optimum, is a connectivity provider in the U.S. distributes internet, television, and mobile services to individuals and businesses in a bid to “their passions and pursuits so they can go farther.” Their new tagline “Get Closer, Go Farther” is the experience they seek to deliver to their customers, according to Executive Vice President of Customer and Business Services, Mark Grover. “We are thrilled to launch this new campaign…

American IT Company, Accenture, has acquired cloud data firm, Tenbu, as part of their company. The data analysts at Tenbu will be part of Accenture’s Data and AI team at Accenture Cloud First. In a media release, data and specialists at Tenbu will bring new life to client relations and prioritize the client’s organizational needs “to achieve specific business outcomes.” “Our goal is to help clients with total enterprise reinvention by building their digital core, optimizing operations and accelerating growth – and cloud data and AI are fundamental to a strong digital core,” said Karthik Narain, global lead for Accenture…

An international telecom investor-operator, Orange Group, has vowed to play a big part in the Nigerian telecom sector including mobile, data, fixed and financial technology support services. Mrs. Victoria Adefala, stated this when she led a six-member team of Orange Middle East and Africa, on a visit to the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta in Abuja. She said the group is fully determined to do all it takes to get a slice of the Nigerian market. “We are here to ensure steady investment for a long term. We also want to support the…

Nexi has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft which is aimed at innovating digital payments solutions and assisting digitalization of SMEs, Corporates, Public Administrations, and Financial Institutions. Multiple European markets through vertical value-added solutions respond to specific needs such as easy-to-adopt one-stop-to-digital packages for small businesses, secure scalable payment cloud-based infrastructures for public entities to serve citizens, amongst others. Nexi has been chosen as one of its primary digital payment providers for e-commerce acceptance in Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as a result of the agreement. Nexi and Microsoft plan to work together to integrate Nexi payment solutions with Microsoft…

Innovative telecommunications company, 9mobile has restated its commitment to enabling the growth of Nigerian businesses and fostering inter-sectoral collaboration to further boost economic development in the country. Chief Financial Officer, 9mobile, Phillips Oki, who represented the CEO of 9mobile, Juergen Peschel, gave the assurance recently when he led the company’s management team on a visit to Gracefield Island, a smart city under development by Gravitas Investments Limited in the Lekki axis of Lagos. Gracefield Island is a new integrated cosmopolitan smart city of 25,000 inhabitants initiated by Gravitas and built on purposely reclaimed land within the fast-rising premium Lekki Lagos…

The world’s leader in instant delivery services, Zipline, has announced the appointment of Mawuli Atiemo as the new General Manager of its Ghana operations. His appointment took effect from July 2022. Mawuli is joining Zipline from AstraZeneca where he was the Ghana Country Lead and having had over 15 years of multi-sectoral wealth of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, stretching across various business development functions. In the various positions he has held over the years, Mawuli Atiemo has demonstrated rare leadership responsibility, including building and developing talents, managing high-performing teams, and developing and increasing sales. Through his leadership as Sales…

NEC Corporation has announced the launch of its annual NEC Visionary Week event according to a press statement dated August 1, 2022, the event will be held online, and will span from September 12 through 16 this year. The event is themed “Truly Open, Truly Trusted”, with NEC offering seven sessions exclusively to partners and stakeholders from all round to engage them in “envisioning and co-creating a brighter, more sustainable world.” The firm will also reveal “a shared vision of a future that highlights its latest technologies, solutions and customer case studies from the 4 business domains of Digital Government,…