Global consulting firm, McKinsey & Company has focused much of its recent research on the continent’s growth prospect. Despite the good news the company wonders, is all this  growth sustainable? They conduct an interview with Absa Bank’s CEO, Maria Ramos, President of Coca Cola South Africa, Bill Egbe and Nobert Door, Head of McKinsey’s sub-Saharan [...]

We had earlier featured a post on Actis, the emerging markets private equity firm with significant and profitable private equity investments across the continent. CNN recently sat down with Ngozi Edozien, an Actis executive. Nigerian-born Edozien was appointed head of Actis’ West Africa operations in June 2009. Before that she was the founding chief executive [...]

Zain Nigeria has recently introduced a service that will enable Nigerians access Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo via SMS. This service is intended for Zain users who do not have internet data access. Users are expected to gain access to the sites by sending SMS to specified numbers. According to Deepak Srivastava, Zain Nigeria’s Chief Operating [...]

via Thisday “The much-awaited registration of voters for the 2011 polls is expected to commence late October, according to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega. And just when Nigerians were certain that any financial issues regarding the needs of the commission had been put to rest with the release [...]

In this age of massive information overload, the need for accurate and relevant content curation is all the more crucial. The team behind Ushahidi, (the internationally acclaimed African crowd sourcing platform) has just released the beta version of Swift River, a tool that can help many around the web make sense of their real time [...]

Announcing the AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2010 Kenya, and increasingly the rest of East Africa, now has the ICT infrastructure and services in place to be a world-class provider of IT-enabled services. The AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2010 provides the platform to achieve this vision through a multi-faceted event that will draw together [...]

The registration of Subscriber Identification Module (otherwise know as SIM) cards has finally commenced. This exercise, which is poorly understood by the populace, has continued to be the object of debate among telecommunication industry professionals on how the registration should work, who should be responsible for it and how the exercise is different from the [...]

50 things you should know; some good, some not so good. Nevertheless, important for knowledge and awareness building. The largest population in SSA is 151.3 million in Nigeria; the smallest is 0.1 million in Seychelles. 26 The highest connection charge for a business phone is $366.6 in Benin; the lowest is in Ghana at $0.7. [...]

Kampala-The African Centre for Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Prevention has been launched in Naguru, a Kampala suburb. The centre, set up by the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI), in conjunction with the International Association of Cyber Crime Prevention (AILCC), is based in France. The centre [...]

An initiative to give everyone a chance to say what they love about Lagos has been launched using a Facebook application and offers prizes to the most liked photos. The initiative called, TaG LaGos allows participants to share interesting photos and their experiences with other people on Governor Babatunde Fashola’s fan page on Facebook. How [...]