As part of the company’s Series A capital round, West African private equity fund manager CardinalStone Capital Advisers (CCA) has announced a $6 million investment in Nigeria’s healthtech firm AfyA Care. In Nigeria, AfyA Treatment offers integrated healthcare services, such as hospital care, health insurance, and medical device services. The investment exemplifies CCA’s goal of […]

Over the next five years, Amazon will invest more than one billion euros (R17.7 billion) in electric vans, lorries, and low-emission package hubs across Europe. Taking this step accelerates the company’s efforts to reach net-zero carbon emissions. According to the statement made by the company, the investment was also made to foster innovation within the […]

Students representing Nigeria at the 2022 First Global Robotics Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, have showcased the country in a great light, bagging the third position. Following a demonstration of the values of the First Global Community, displaying professionalism and building bridges along with other contestants, Team Nigeria was awarded a bronze medal for the Dr […]

An online company, Eazi Travels has been launched in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, to make travelling as seamless as possible for commuters. Speaking during the unveiling, the Director of African Tourism Corporate Travel, Claud Batochi, said the company would foster travel by focusing on improving the experience of travellers through enhanced online ticket purchase and […]

Safaricom Kenya has recently launched a fixed wireless connectivity product named Home 5G Wi-Fi. This is the first fixed wireless 5G deployed commercially in East Africa. Kenyans can now enjoy super-fast internet connection. The Home 5G Wi-Fi packages are valid for 30 days. The packages are regulated so that if a subscriber does not exhaust […]

Elon Musk has announced his official acquisition of Twitter. The world’s richest man made the disclosure via his Twitter account on 27th October 2022. This comes after a Delaware Court issued an ultimatum that he seals the deal with Twitter before 28th October 2022. Recall that Twitter sued Musk in a Delaware court for failing […]

HP Inc., a multinational information technology company, has announced enhancements to its HP Wolf Security endpoint protection portfolio through the launch of Sure Access Enterprise (SAE), which protects users with the right to access sensitive data, systems, and applications.   SAE safeguards against attackers from hijacking these privileged sessions; regardless of whether the users’ endpoint device […]

Pan-African healthcare technology company mPharma announced the launch of the mutti Keep My Price Program, which is for people who take long-term drugs. After a successful pilot of the program, mPharma started the program with the goal of helping patients get their prescriptions at prices they can afford, even if prices on the market go […]

Liquid Dataport, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies (formerly Liquid Telecom Group), has acquired a pair of fiber cables on Equiano, the new Google-owned subsea cable linking South Africa and Europe along Africa’s west coast. According to the company, “the cables give Liquid access to a bandwidth of 12Tbit/s on the new Internet cable, which will […]

African and worldwide data center operators are relying more on renewable energy sources due to electricity shortages. Rob Saunders, CTO of Raxio Group, affirmed that the footprint of the African data center industry will go from 127MW to 267MW by 2027. He said that in order to meet the rising demand for electricity, there are […]

    A subsidiary of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), InfraCo Africa, has signed a deal with Equatorial Power (EP) under Rwanda’s InfraCo. Equatorial will invest US$1.7 million in solar mini-grids to expand its avant-garde mini-grid concept in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. The tech firms will devise four new […]

By March of next year, Sony Group Corp. hopes to have made 2 million PlayStation VR2 headsets. A reliable source says that the optimistic prediction goes against how the world economy is doing now.  A source who didn’t want to be named said that supply chain problems have made it harder to get goggles since […]

Africa contributes less than 3 per cent of the world’s genetic materials in pharmaceutical research. This is strange because the genetic pool of people in Africa is the most diverse and unique of any human population. For this reason, 54Gene, an African genomics startup founded in 2019, set out to close this gap. The startup […]

Carbon Finance has partnered with CarePay to provide its customers with discounted healthcare services. It’s part of a larger plan to make high-quality medical care more accessible to Nigerians. As a result of this partnership, Carbon Finance offers its customers discounts on healthcare payments made with their Carbon debit cards within the Carepay healthcare provider […]

Angola is getting ready to launch its second communications satellite, Angosat-2 into space. Speaking on the size of the satellite, the Director-General of the Angolan National Space Program Management Office (GGPEN), Zolana João, said Angosat-2 would be seven times faster than Angosat-1. The Director General said Angosat-2 was designed as a conventional satellite, with a […]

Africa’s leading patient-centred, technology-driven healthcare company, mPharma, acquired the majority stake in HealthPlus, the leading pharmacy chain in Nigeria. Alta Semper, a former investor, and mPharma have signed a deal that will allow mPharma to buy a majority stake in the HealthPlus Group. Gregory Rockson, the CEO and co-founder of mPharma, says that the acquisition […]

AfDB’s Board of Directors approved the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a new groundbreaking institution that will enhance Africa’s access to the technologies that enable medicine, vaccines, and other pharmaceutical products to be manufactured. ‘‘It is a great development for Africa. Developing a healthy defense system in Africa requires three major areas: revamping […]

Drones are flying robots that can be remotely controlled or flown autonomously by software-controlled flight plans, in conjunction with onboard sensors and a global positioning system (GPS). The drone or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry in Africa is taking off, evolving into a massive enterprise. People have begun to recognise the many benefits of using […]

You might have been wondering, what is IMEI number and what is it used for? Don’t worry, it will be explained here. About IMEI number. Every phone no matter how cheap or expensive it might be will have an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. The IMEI number is a 15-digit unique identifier that can […]

Ukraine has been hit by cyberattacks that are feared to be backed by President Putin of Russia. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were targeted at the web portal of Ukraine’s ministry of defence as well as the country’s financial systems. The scope of the DDoS attack is such that hackers flood the servers hosting a […]