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.

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.

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.

Konga.com, Nigeria’s online megastore is celebrating Workers’ Day 2013 with massive discounts across its many categories in a promo tagged “WORKERS DAY MEGA SALE” starting from April 30 to May 2. The special sales promo allows you to shop for your favorite items like laptops, mobile devices, tablets, books, fragrances, home appliances, toys, fashion, etc [...]

Leading online retailer, Konga.com is about to launch a revolutionary new SMS-based shopping platform called SMS2ORDER tomorrow that basically lets you shop via SMS, similar to Amazon’s TextBuyIt service launched in 2008.

A few days ago, I was searching for where to have a good coffee/cappuccino with an outdoor seating and green environment with iROKO’s global PR lead, Jessica Hope who’s visiting Lagos for a few weeks. Basically, I wanted a good web resource with useful information based on a specific interest, not some business directory service or [...]

A new technology hub located right at the heart of the Lagos innovation cluster in Yaba is launching today in order to provide entrepreneurs support to build software skills, solutions and businesses critical to their success. [Follow our live-blog of the official launch in Lagos] The hub called Information Technology Developers Entrepreneurship Accelerator (iDEA) says that [...]

As hands get itchy to start snapping up .ng second-level domains come Tuesday April 16th, we’ve learned that domain registrar, 101Domain.com has put an exorbitant $199 price tag (over N31,000) on each purchase of one of the world’s most valuable extensions. Last week, Techloy exclusively reported that starting from April 2013, the country’s official domains registrar, NiRA will open [...]

Following the announcement that Nigeria’s second-level domain, .ng will be opened up for general registration at a price of N15,000 (about $95) per domain name, Techloy can now confirm that it will be available for sale from April 16th. For the past few days, some accredited domain registrars and resellers such as Web4Africa began prepping up their [...]

We love food. And that’s why whenever we feel hungry, we whet our appetite by sniffing up at our sister site, Foodiciary.com, a blog that provides local food recipes and restaurant reviews. But when we can’t help it any more, we go over to some of our favourite online food ordering sites. Here are 5 online [...]

A new e-commerce start-up called Cart! is launching soon to help entrepreneurs enable a personalised online store front powered by payments, shipping and marketing support. Founded by former Dealdey VP of Technology, Dika Oha, the start-up wants to be Nigeria’s verison of Shopify, an e-commerce site builder founded in 2006 that powers tens of thousands of [...]

Earlier this week, Techloy exclusively reported that one of the world’s most valuable extensions, .ng which happens to be the well-sought after Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria will be sold for less than $100 USD per domain name. Today, we learned that some accredited domain registrars and resellers have began selling prepping up [...]