If you’re looking to build a career in Telecommunications Engineering, here’s an opportunity to study for an MSc programme at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Nigeria.

Today, Nokia became the first major brand in Nigeria to be verified on Twitter, the world’s most popular micro-blogging platform. With just about 4,000 followers, the phone maker’s Twitter page for the Nigerian audience, managed by the Nokia Nigeria team in Lagos regularly posts news and updates as well as share information about its amazing line of products, especially from its Lumia and Asha range of phones.

While Akure may never have appeared on any lists of tech startup hubs in unlikely places around the world, the largest city and capital of Ondo State in the South-Western region of Nigeria is gradually starting a movement to mould a tech startup culture and community.

A former Google employee who worked as Programmes Manager for the search and advertising giant’s operations in Lagos, Nigeria has left to join leading online retailer, Konga, Techloy has exclusively learnt.

Fast-growing mobile phone brand, TECNO recently launched its latest Android smartphone, the P3, during a press conference at the prestigious Oriental Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.

Leading online store solution WebMallNG.com has launched another unique product called GIFT REGISTRY for users who plan to celebrate their weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers etc. The multi-merchant platform allows for products from each store on its site to be added for purchase by friends for a celebrant’s special day and celebrants can share their GIFT REGISTRY online with their friends either on Facebook, Twitter or via email.

If you missed the Mobile Web West Africa 2013 conference or you just want to re-live some of the moments at the event in photos, we’ve got your back! Here are 120 photos from day one for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

South African price comparison app, PriceCheck, today emerged ‘App of The Year’ in the Blackberry Achievement Awards 2013 after Blackberry users all over the world voted it for its most innovative use of the BlackBerry technology.

While advertisers in Nigeria seem to be struggling to find the right platforms with targeted audiences to promote their products, Adsolut, a new local, home-grown ad solution wants to make it easier.

After it signed an agreement with Rocket Internet to jointly develop franchises in the online sector in Latin America and Africa in a €340 million deal last August, Millicom, a global telecommunications group with mobile telephony operations in 13 countries in Latin America and Africa has invested an additional €35 million in Rocket’s operations in Africa.

Since Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2013 in Nigeria, we’ve been looking for ways to show our support for the company’s latest Office suite of products for Windows users. That’s why we’re launching the Office 2013 giveaway, in collaboration with Microsoft, in order to give our readers the chance to experience how working seamlessly in the cloud as well as offline can add value and increase productivity in their lives and businesses.

NextSpeel, a new online streaming site for TV episodes and series wants to let you watch the best TV series and soap operas from Nigeria and Africa for free. With popular soap operas from Nigeria such as Super Story and AY’s Crib, the platform says it would be launching this Friday, May 3 with at [...]