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.

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 [...]

Have you always wanted to own the latest computers, phones, tablets, electronics, cameras, home appliances from the world’s leading manufacturers? Nigeria’s leading online retailer, Jumia is offering up to 30% discount off some cool gadgets on its store this week in a promo called Week of the Geek. The deal is one of those shopping [...]

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 [...]

As the challenges of building a successful e-commerce company in Nigeria continue to grow with several entrepreneurs struggling to play in a market that requires significant investments, leading online retailer, Konga wants to help entrepreneurs to own their online store. While leveraging on its robust delivery infrastructure, warehousing logistics and nationwide coverage, the company is about to [...]

Jumia has announced two promotions — the ‘Easter Massive Promotion’ and the ‘Easter Sprint Sales’ – that would afford shoppers this Easter season an opportunity they wouldn’t want to miss. In a statement, the leading online retailer said that it “overwhelmingly attributes the success we’ve achieved as Nigeria’s number 1 online retailer to the beautiful customers we have” [...]

When Dealdey started with a humble ice cream deal on March 22, 2011, many felt it would be just another e-commerce service that would soon bite the dust. Two years later, the daily deals start-up is gradually becoming an e-commerce giant in the likes of LivingSocial or Groupon, the world’s leading players in that space.

At the Samsung Africa Forum 2013, Samsung Electronics Africa on Wednesday officially signed a strategic partnership with Africa’s leading pay TV operator, MultiChoice Africa to deliver world-class entertainment, content and technology to customers.

Jumia, arguably, Africa’s largest e-commerce retailer has received $26 million (USD) in funding from Summit Partners, a $15 billion growth equity firm that invests in rapidly growing companies.

Bloomberg Media Group has teamed up with Nigeria-based content provider, Optima Media Group in a multi-year rolling partnership agreement to launch an Africa-focused business and financial news television service across the African continent. The new entity, Bloomberg Television Africa, expected to launch in the second half of this year, would “provide a dynamic and relevant context for [...]

When price comparison site, PriceCheck launched last December in Nigeria, it was not really a price comparison site. As we noted in our initial review, it simply didn’t offer much options for product price or flight comparisons, so we couldn’t really ascertain how intelligent the comparison engine was. Today, the service announced that it has [...]