M-KOPA, a connected asset financing platform has officially expanded to Nigeria, with Babajide Duroshola named as the new General Manager to lead the Nigerian team. As part of the tech company’s broader expansion strategy, the move into the Nigerian market signals M-KOPA’s focus on offering millions of underbanked customers across Sub-Saharan Africa access to life-enhancing products and services such as smartphones, solar lighting, energy-efficient televisions, fridges, and digital financial services via its financing platform. The company recorded pilot sales of over 20,000 devices in Lagos and is rapidly expanding into states across the country, including Oyo. M-KOPA has partnered with…
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The surge in PC demand continued through the second quarter of 2021 despite global component shortages and logistics issues, according to the latest preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached 83.6-million units in 2Q21, up 13,2% from the second quarter of 2020. The result showed that elevated demand for PCs combined with shortages that greatly impacted the supply of notebooks led to desktop growth outpacing that of notebooks during the quarter. “The PC market’s hot streak continued to drive heavy investments…
TD Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa’s leading tech, lifestyle and distribution giant, has rolled out a mouthwatering offer to reward shoppers with a smart watch for every purchase of the 55-inch Infinix Smart TV. The offer is available to shoppers via eCommerce giant, Konga while bulk buyers can take advantage of the offer by purchasing direct from TD Africa. The Infinix Smart TV comes with an exciting range of features, including hotspot screen mirroring which allows viewers the freedom to mirror their mobile device to the TV screen, using mobile hotspot without consuming mobile data. The device also comes with air mouse…
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Mr. Charles Nwonye, President of Uruagu Nnewi Town Development Union in Anambra State, has called on public-spirited individuals to prevail on the Federal Government to stop sending soldiers to the community. Addressing a press conference at the Town Hall yesterday, Nwonye decried the situation, saying that “The soldiers, in the process of looking for members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have resorted to arresting every young man seen in the community. “Since the beginning of last month, soldiers of the Federal Government detailed from the Onitsha Military Cantonment have been frequenting all communities in Nnewi North Local Government…