Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI) • 20th February 2019

LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS OF ADDICTION

Most times when people hear the terms “substance abuse” and “drug addiction”, they think they are the same thing and are synonymous to each other. Well, they aren’t. This article will give an insight on their actual meanings and their relationship with each other.

MUO • 23rd July 2022

The New Slack Pricing Plan and What It Means for Users

Slack has announced that it's adjusting its prices in September. This is Slack’s first price increase since its 2014 launch and will only affect subscribers on the Pro Plan. The social networking app is also changing parts of its free plan offerings, and the internet is buzzing.

12th February 2023

OneRoute Blog

Customer success is important for the growth of any business, including fintechs. And with the rising cost of customer acquisition, African fintechs need to be more intentional about customer success. In this article, we highlight crucial customer success metrics to track, and how OneRoute makes it easier for you and your team to track them.

TechCabal • 6th July 2021

Netflix and chill just got a whole lot cheaper for Africa

Our people have a saying, when two elephants fight, the grass suffers. This is indisputable. Six tons of hard muscle and bones will do a cruel number on any lawn, no matter how stubborn the grass is—it just has to bow down to the ancestors.

But what happens when the elephants in question are not two, but three of the biggest Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) platforms in Africa!

Well, the grass just got greener on the Netflix side of town.

TechCabal • 6th July 2021

Instagram launches Reels ads in Sub-Saharan Africa

Imagine scrolling through Reels of your favorite celebrities trying—and most times failing—to dance amapiano, then boom: an ad pops up.

Well, heads up Africa! You’re going to be seeing a lot of that soon, because Facebook’s rolling out a sizzling new update, Reels ads, to help businesses widen their audience reach.

Last year Instagram released Reels, a TikTok clone, to counter TikTok’s growing domination of the short-form video space. Already, TikTok has been downloaded over 2 billion times ac

TechCabal • 13th July 2021

Move over TikTok, YouTube Shorts is in Nigeria

*Cue the classic YouTube intro*
Remember how you’d spend hours tweaking and zhuzhing up your MUA videos and dance tutorials before uploading them on YouTube, only for some rando to comment something annoying? Well, we can’t help you with the random nasty comment – yet – but YouTube just launched something short and exciting to their Nigerian users.

TechCabal • 22nd July 2021

How to navigate Africa’s thriving second-hand smartphone market

Last year, there were a lot of scary numbers speculating the great smartphone decline in Africa, *waves hands dramatically*. Well, turns out Africans found a way around that problem: Second-hand phones.

TechCabal • 22nd July 2021

Twitter is testing Reddit-ish upvote and downvote buttons on iOS devices

Trust Twitter to always roll up with a new update. Last week it was killing Twitter Fleets, and adding captions to voice tweets on iOS devices. Today Twitter is testing out upvote and downvote buttons for replies to tweets.

The company announced yesterday that a select group of iOS users may receive different upvote or downvotes options on their Twitter app. The buttons may appear as the usual heart icon and a new down arrow, a thumbs up and a thumbs down icon, or up and down arrows similar to

TechCabal • 4th August 2021

Meet Abeg: Big Brother Naija sponsor and app of the hour

It’s Season 6 of Big Brother Naija (BBN), and the theme is ‘Shine ya eye” – a theme that BBN’s tech sponsors like Patricia and Abeg are taking quite seriously.

TechCabal • 2nd July 2021

7 amazing things you didn’t know your smartphone could do

Last month, a viral TikTok video by What’s Inside blew people’s minds. It was about a guy who could control 15 gadgets in his smart home from his phone. The video was both fascinating and somewhat intimidating — you know it was. So, it got us wondering: what other cool things can you do with your smartphone?