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.

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 [...]

MedEnhanz, an online medical information company based in Nigeria has launched a web-based medical information and clinical reference tool for Nigerian medical professionals. The company, co-founded by serial entrepreneur, Wole Faroun who has been involved in other technology-based solutions including WebMall NG, is looking to take on the huge task of creating an industry that [...]

African casual gaming start-up KULUYA is set to launch a hybrid commerce platform that would allow its growing players to make money through competitive cash games. The company which launched in August 2012 with $250,000 in seed funding has recently raised another undisclosed seed round that is said to value the company at $2 million.

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.

Several years ago, I became aware that there exists an Irish word called ‘Loy’ which comes from the Gaelic word laí, which means spade. A ‘Loy’ is an Irish narrow spade with a long heavy handle made of ash, a narrow steel plate on the face and a single footrest.

A new animation film titled Simi Visits Grandma and produced by a Lagos-based animation company, Ostudiolabs is set to be released in December 2014. The full-length animation film would be based on the story of a young girl named Simi who was born in Lagos to a yuppie parent. According to the synopsis, “She goes to [...]

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 [...]

We’re live-blogging the official launch of the iDEA Hub happening at its Lagos Centre right next to the Co-creation Hub (CcHub) in Yaba, Lagos. The hub called Information Technology Developers Entrepreneurship Accelerator (iDEA) wants to help Nigerian entrepreneurs create successful businesses in the areas of mobile apps, enterprise software, linguistic software, custom programming and business intelligence [...]

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 [...]

After about 10 years of working with South African media group, Naspers, Neil Schwartzman has finally left the company to join African digital music platform, Spinlet as its new Chief Executive Officer, Techloy has learnt. Born in Canada, Schwartzman studied Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. He later moved to South Africa where he worked for various Internet [...]

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 [...]