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Success Damian: Google said its Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge is now open for application submissions in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey. This much was disclosed at a GNI Innovation Summit held in Lagos, when Google hosted media and publishers to discuss the GNI Innovation Challenge, and helped interested parties to successfully enter. The GNI Innovation Challenge is accepting proposals for projects from news organisations of every size to address increasing engagement with readers and/or exploring new business models in any form such as subscriptions, membership programmes, and so on. Traditional publishers, news startups and associations that aim to build innovative digital media projects are all eligible to apply. Projects can be highly experimental, but must have well-defined goals and have a significant digital component.  Says Head of Google News Initiative Innovation, Ludovic Blecher: “We’ve long collaborated with the news industry to...

Success Damian:   Google Nigeria has successfully launched its Digital Skills for Africa Program in Aba and other local communities in Abia State. In a press release, the launch took place at a press conference held at the Eldorado Hotel and Events Centre, Aba.  Google’s Digital Skills for Africa Program offers training courses to help individuals and communities develop and grow digital skills, find jobs and advance in their careers. The program provides free online courses, tools, and in-person digital training to students, educators, job seekers and businesses. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rate in Nigeria as at December 2017 was 18.8% (16 million people) and under-employment at 21.2%.  “The youth make up 60% of Africa’s unemployed, developing digital entrepreneurship and creating new job opportunities for them is critical to Africa’s transformative growth,” says Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, Head, Bran...

Success Damian: L-R: Olagoke Balogun, CEO, So Fresh; Fisayo Akinwumi, Head of Operations, Jumia Food; Abimbola Balogun, COO, So Fresh, and Guy Futi, Managing Director, Jumia Food at a press conference to announce a new delivery partnership in Lagos yesterday.   Jumia Food Nigeria has added So Fresh , Nigeria's leading fresh food chain, to its ever-growing catalogue of restaurants on its platform. This is in a bid to promote healthy living among Nigerians. The announcement was made on 26th June at a joint press conference held by the two companies at So Fresh Ogudu branch located at 40b, Ogudu Road, Ojota, Lagos. Guy Futi, the Managing Director of Jumia Food said the company's commitment to promoting and encouraging a healthy lifestyle among Nigerians necessitated the partnership. "As a business, we are always looking for new ways to serve our customers, such as through a partnership like this. I am particularly excited with So Fresh because this is a...

Success Damian: L-R:    Mr. Adewale Akinade, Head, Finance & Account; Mrs.    Bimbo Ikumariegbe, Deputy Managing Director; Mr. Abiodun Omoniyi, Managing Director/CEO; Mr. Victor Omoyeni and Mr. Dan Adah, Head, Corporate & Retail Sales all of VDT Communications during the Media Launch of the VDT 4G LTE Advanced Data Service in Lagos. VDT Communications is set to launch its retail data network 4G LTE Advanced service into the Nigerian market. Managing Director of the Communication company, Biodun Omoniyi, made the disclosure at a Press Conference in Lagos on Wednesday. Omoniyi said that the company is leveraging on the theme "...Live the life”, to drive home the unique lifestyle changing attributes and benefits of its service. " VDT is known for the provision of premium quality services to enterprise customers. The retail broadband service space would witness the same premium quality service for homes and individual subscribers i...