A new revolutionary post-paid product tagged Infinitiser launched by Globacom on Tuesday has offered subscribers a rare opportunity to make free 24-hour calls to the 26 million subscribers on the company’s network. Additionally, subscribers will enjoy 1 free gigabyte of data per month. Kamaldeen Shonibare, Globacom’s Head of Corporate Sales, while speaking at the launch of the product in Lagos,...
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Celebrating Nelson Mandela, a film installation is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square. The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organization co-founded by Oscar-winning star Robert De Niro. Inspiring quotes will be played across many of Times Square’s screens this month to celebrate the anti-apartheid innovator’s 95th...
Social networking site Facebook has seen its South African user-base drop by nearly one million in the past six months, according to a report on Monday. Statistics from social media monitoring company SocialBakers showed that 967 220 users have not logged on to the site in the past six months, reported The Star. This was a decline of 17.7%. The numbers also indicated...
Five months after parting company with Trybes Records, it looks like rapper Eva Alordiah is set to part ways her new management company 3UD. Ugo of 3UD is demanding that rapper Eva Alordiah should remove “3UD” from her Twitter profile as she is no longer signed to the management. Ugo insists that rapper Eva and him parted company since way back as February and as such she should remove...
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa there are numerous examples of industries that have undergone a period of deregulation and privatisation having previously been state-controlled. Market liberalising reforms gathered momentum during the 1990s as African nations sought to align themselves with an increasingly integrated global economy. In Nigeria, the Structural...
In its resolve to take public education to a greater heights in the state, the government of the State of Osun has commenced the distribution of the Computer Tablets of Learning (Opon Imo) to the students of the government-owned secondary schools in the state. The distribution of the tablets started at the Ataoja School of Science, Osogbo on Monday with 385 students...
Partnership made to give a boost to the objectives of the Microsoft 4Afrika Effort to sustain African breakthrough. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, As component of the lately released Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, Microsoft Corp. today announced a critical cooperation along with company incubator iHub and the m: lab East Africa consortium to make it possible for start-ups,...
Globeleq, the emerging markets electric company, has actually started building for the 139 MW expansion of its existing Azito gas-to-power plant nearAbidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The final nominal capability of the plant will certainly be 420 MW, making it one of the biggest and the most effective thermal nuclear power plant in Cote d’Ivoire. Building ought...
- New 250MW Contract in Libya shows demand for turbine technology in Northern Africa APR Energy just recently announced that it has authorized a deal along with the nationwide energy of Libya for a turnkey 250MW power project. The fast-track, mobile generator solution will certainly help to supply acting power while the nation repair works and develops its facilities...








