By Esther Orejimi-Bakare May 21, 2019 Microsoft plans to invest $100m in its new Africa Development Centre that aims to accelerate digital transformation, bridge gaps in infrastructure, connectivity and innovation capability on the continent in the next five years. At the...

Banking group Absa said on Tuesday it had to date migrated its digital channels and its account origination applications used by 10 African subsidiaries from the Barclays Plc data centre in the United Kingdom to its own data centre in South...

ECOWAS is to implement biosafety regulations aimed at ensuring safe practices in the agriculture sector in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of achieving Zero Hunger by 2030. This formed the basis of the meeting of Experts of Biosafety for...

Goldman Sachs and Investec said on Wednesday they had entered into an exclusive cooperation agreement for equity trading in South Africa which would enable both firms to extend their capabilities and deepen links with African and international clients seeking to...

Portuguese soccer giant, Benfica is set to build a soccer academy in Ghana to unearth talents. The project will be spearheaded by Ghanaian licensed FIFA agent, Seedorf Asante, who is partnering the club to undertake its first major work on...

Chinese multinational telecommunications giant Huawei said on Monday that it had partnered with 48 local developers of mobile apps, and was still looking for more, in a drive to promote South African digital talent on its mobile app store.  Huawei Mobile...

African football’s growing influence in Europe was confirmed after Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ended on top of the scoring charts in the English Premier League (EPL) with 22 goals each. Salah had gone into the final day’s...

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s foremost champion of entrepreneurship, will host its 5th Annual Forum — the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs – on July 26 – 27, 2019. The two-day event will take place at the iconic...

Ecobank has reiterated its commitment to lead the transformation agenda of African countries to digitise the financial systems towards building cashlite economies. “The Ecobank group’s agenda is to empower and include at least 100 million Africans in the financial sector...

First National Bank said on Monday it had set up an initiative to help those affected by storms and floods in parts of the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces as well as South Africa’s neighbour Mozambique. The #HelptoRebuild initiative is an...