Ikenna "Ike" Ouizo is the founder and CEO of TruSpot, a service he describes as the "Spotify for Africa". Truspot, which offers Africa-specific content, is run out of Texas, but will move to its conceptual birthplace, Nigeria, later this month.
10 Jan 2012 10:00LIBREVILLE, GABON: Gabon authorities have slapped a temporary ban on two opposition media outlets after they covered an address to the nation by opposition leader Andre Mba Obame, who declared himself president last year.
5 Jan 2012 12:10Following rumors that the Nigerian government had instructed telecom operators to shut down their Blackberry service in the country, the executive director and chief operating officer at Airtel Networks Limited, Deepak Srivastava, released a statement yesterday, 3 January 2012, to dispel the rumour.
4 Jan 2012 10:21
Airtel Ghana, last week, re-launched its mobile money platform, under a new brand name Airtel Money, which has been positioned to provide customers with an efficient alternative to cash transactions and provide millions of Ghanaians with access to banking services for the first time.
19 Dec 2011 08:36Reporters Without Borders is perplexed at the indefinite closure of a daily newspaper by the High Authority for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC) on 8 December and warns of the risk of further abuses.
13 Dec 2011 11:36
[Theresa Mallinson] There are currently 52 journalists imprisoned in Africa, in nine countries. More than half the jailed journalists are held in that scourge of media freedom - Eritrea. The most disturbing news to come out of CPJ's recent report on journalists behind bars, is that the trend of imprisoning journalists - often on trumped-up charges - has seen a sharp increase over the last decade.
12 Dec 2011 10:05
YouTube, the platform where anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can share their life, art and voice with the world, has announced the launch of YouTube in Nigeria and will be offering the most relevant content.
8 Dec 2011 09:30
Nominees for the 2011 Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism have been announced by the European Commission (EC). Ghanaian journalist,
Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an investigative journalist at the privately owned,
Crusading Guide, is among the list of nominees released by the EC.
6 Dec 2011 10:48
NIAMEY, NIGER: The president of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, has become the first African head of state to endorse the Declaration of Table Mountain, which calls for repeal of criminal defamation and 'insult' laws and for putting press freedom higher on the agenda in Africa.
1 Dec 2011 11:42
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today announced that it has plans to launch a West Africa Local Council in March 2012 to promote, educate, measure, guide and protect the industry in the region.
28 Nov 2011 12:50[Winston W. Parley] Criminal Court 'A'Judge James W. Zotaa, has strongly warned proprietors of three local media houses recently shutdown by government for allegedly broadcasting hate messages and misinformation not to repeat such act.
17 Nov 2011 12:00 
W.AFRI-TEL, the West African Telecom Exhibition, which takes place from 8-10 May 2012 at the Eko Hotel fair ground in Lagos, Nigeria, will facilitate business opportunities in the telecom sector, enabling exhibitors to gain access to the Nigerian telecom market that contains over 80 million mobile subscribers.
17 Nov 2011 10:56
The South African memorial service for the late Alan McClarty, who died from complications caused by cerebral malaria beginning of November 2011, will be held this Wednesday evening, 16 November, at the offices of Primedia Unlimited in Sandton, Johannesburg.
TransferTo and the MTN Group last week announced that the implementation of their International Airtime Transfer (IAT) partnership in MTN operating companies is well underway.
14 Nov 2011 12:15
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