Anticipation is on the rise as Konga raises the curtains on what will go down in history as Africa’s first-ever live online product auction today, Friday, May 1, 2020, by 5 pm. The revolutionary auction tagged Konga Last Price, which will be hosted live across its social media pages including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube live, will also feature a timed auction on its website- www.konga.com as well as flash sales on social media, both of which will run concurrently with the social media live auction. Among the exciting items to be auctioned are a variety of genuine products from…
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Iniabasi Akpan, the Country Manager for OPay in Nigeria, has said that after the Okada ban in Lagos, “we are going to be focusing on things around delivery.” Akpan told the Nigerian Tribune in an interview: “There is no doubt that the Okada ban in Lagos State cost us a great deal. But, we still have a payment business which is thriving. And I think that that is the most important thing. I guess others were more hit than us because they don’t have a payment business. Our core is the payment business. So, that has always been the core…
A team of University of Benin (UNIBEN) lecturers have invented a ventilator that can work without electricity for at least one hour. The researchers, known as COVID-19 Initiative and headed by Prof. Kessington Obahiagbon explained during the presentation of the machine to the institution’s vice-chancellor, Prof. Lilian Imuetinyan in Benin Tuesday that in designing the machine, they took into consideration the peculiar circumstances of the country where power cut is the order of the day. Obahiagbon, who is from the Faculty of Engineering, said that the feat was achieved in collaboration with his colleagues from the Faculty of Medical Sciences,…
The Akwa Ibom State Government is already looking ahead to repositioning its economy for a post-COVID-19 world even as Nigeria and the rest of the world are still coming to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic which has hobbled global economies. To this effect, the governor, Udom Emmanuel has put together a crack and astute 20-member committee to advise the government on its task of economic reconstruction. The economic reconstruction committee will be inaugurated on Friday, May 1st by 12 pm. Equally important, the committee, drawn from the public and private sector, is peopled by globally renowned entrepreneurs, eggheads from the…
Google Cloud today announced it’s making Google Meet, Google’s premium video-conferencing solution, free for everyone, everywhere, assuring that availability will roll out over the coming weeks. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to G Suite’s business and education users. These include features like scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including the expanded tiled view. “With the lines blurred between work and home, Google Meet can offer the polish needed for a work meeting, a tiled view for…
Konga, a foremost composite e-commerce giant, has entered into a partnership with renowned Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturer, Unilever aimed at seeing the wide range of products on the brand’s stable placed at the reach of shoppers across the country. DigitalTimesNG understands that Unilever is keen to leverage Konga’s massive regional warehousing infrastructure, advanced logistics capabilities and unmatched reach, through its thriving online platform which caters to a growing clientele of online shoppers in search of genuine products at the best prices available in the market. Further increasing the appeal of Konga as a premium vehicle suited to Unilever’s…
At a time when global players in the e-commerce sector have seen the peculiarities of their operations come to the fore in helping governments and people in other climes observe social distancing and stay in the supply of essential items without leaving their homes, the Nigerian e-Commerce sector is instead buckling under the weight of heavy restrictions by state actors and law enforcement officials; leading to no end of frustrations for players in the sector. E-commerce giants in other climes such as Amazon and Alibaba, for instance, have played important roles in the fight against COVID-19 in other parts of…
Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has promised that the Agency is willing to offer full support to the tech community in Nigeria. This is to enable her to innovate on ways of crafting an exit and recovery strategy from this COVID-19 pandemic and to make sure Nigeria comes out stronger as a nation. Mallam Inuwa made this known yesterday during his speech via Skype at the opening ceremony of a Hackathon event put together by ‘100 women in ICT’ with the theme: ‘Hack the Crisis in Nigeria.’ “Hack the crisis project is…
WhatsApp Friday announced that it was expanding its group calling limit from four people to eight people. This would make it easier for users to stay in touch with their friends and family during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement was part of a bunch of new product updates announced by Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this week, the company started to roll out this feature to users of the app’s beta versions on iOS and Android. Now, this functionality will start rolling out to everyone starting next week. For comparison, Houseparty allows eight participants and Google…
As a part of its effort to address the social paradigms emerging from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Facebook Friday announced new features heading to Messenger, Portal, Facebook Live, Instagram, and Facebook Dating that aim to make it easier to connect with close friends, followers, and significant others. A report by VentureBeat showed that perhaps the most notable is Messenger Rooms, which creates joinable group video calls on Facebook and Facebook Messenger. Hosts can invite anyone to join even if they don’t have a Facebook account and rooms will soon hold up to 50 users without a time limit. The account-free…