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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association of Nigeria (NiRA), official domain registrar of Nigeria’s country Top-Level domain name (ccTLD), has set a target of 100,000 .ng second-level domains registrations by the end of the second quarter or 2013, reports Technology Times. Citing the Chief Operating Officer of the registrar, Ope Odusan, the ICT newspaper said that at the [...]

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 job search site called HotNigerianJobs.com has accused Jobberman, the leading jobs portal in Nigeria of copying its job ads, posting several screenshots showing evidence of what it claims to be an unfair advantage on its website.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nigeria’s .ng Second Level Domain has for a long time been viewed as one of the most valuable extensions in the domains market for an obvious reason: it creates virtually any verb-related web domain on the surface of the Internet. Just imagine domain names like facebooki.ng, googli.ng, bloggi.ng and a host of other verb-related words [...]

The websites of four Nigerian government institutions including that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were hacked last Friday by a group called PakCyberEaglez, Techloy has learnt. While we’re not sure why the websites were attacked, sources say that PCE’s target sites appear to be random and simply take advantage of security lapses on most websites they attack.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has unveiled its Open Data Platform for 20 African countries including Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tunisia with the goal of improving data management and dissemination in the continent.