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CoinField Announces Launch of CoinField Coin (CFC)

Mena Adediran
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CoinField Announces Launch of CoinField Coin (CFC)

CoinField, a European cryptocurrency platform has announced the release of its own coin called CoinField Coin (CFC) or Field Coin. CoinField’s crypto services are currently available in 186 countries including Nigeria. This release looks profitable for CoinField as it generates about $20billion in transactions, in a year. Tingo, based in the USA, is backing CoinField as its strategic partner.

Crypto coins created by crypto exchange platforms are said to offer trading access at cheaper rates than other crypto coins and tokens. There are one billion CoinField Coins, which is regarded as a coin limit in cryptocurrency. The organization has no plans to increase the number of coins it has created and claims to offer the coin holders special benefits. 

CoinField also has the aim to improve food supply and support farmers as well as food innovators. To this end, 100 million CoinField coins will be donated to charities that specialize in food innovation. On December 7th, 2021, 300 million CFC will be put up for sale as its Initial Exchange Offering. The price is $1 to a unit. However, existing users get the chance to purchase at a discount until December 6th.

CoinField aims to increase its trading volume by ten times next year, as an improvement on its current $17billion processed this year, in trades.

Alex Lightman, author of CoinField White Paper expressed his view on the coin launch, “The CoinField coin is not only going to make it less expensive to do trades in 186 countries on what I believe is the most secure crypto and fiat exchange on earth but will also enhance and preserve buying power for buyers and sellers of food in Africa. Our partnership with Tingo has the potential to do more good for farmers and families.”

Propel Job Opening: Software Engineer-Backend

Hassan Barakat
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Propel Job Opening: Software Engineer-Backend
Propel seeks to build an ecosystem for the future of work. With this mission, propel is building novel products, new channels, and extensive partnerships to harness the abundance and growth potential of African tech talent.

Software Engineer-Backend Role

  • Job Type: Full Time, Remote
  • Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
  • Job Field: ICT/Computer

Job Description

  • Create, develop document tools to support the development lifecycle;
  • Support development teams on the usage of frameworks and tools;
  • Work with Principal Engineers by helping define the technical roadmap for their domain;
  • Contribute to unblock issues that the development teams are facing on their daily basis work;
  • Evolve your technical capabilities to the next level while using state-of-the-art technologies (.Net, SQL Server, Mongo, Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic, Redis, and Docker);
  • Mentor and help grow other team members.

Requirements

  • An expert in object-oriented languages (C#, .NET or Java);
  • Knowledgeable of unit tests and integration tests;
  • A person who is passionate about code quality;
  • A person that stays on top of all best practices of modern software development;
  • Knowledgeable of SQL and experience using relational databases;
  • Knowledgeable of REST APIs;
  • Experienced in NoSQL databases and SOA architecture is a plus;
  • A professional with experience working with Scrum methodologies is also a plus;
  • Someone who is autonomous and able to make technical decisions to have a positive impact on our platform.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Apply Here

Minister of Tourism Set to Build an Ultra-Modern ICT Facility for His Alma Mater

Sopuruchukwu Elizabeth Mba
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Minister of Tourism Set to Build an Ultra-Modern ICT Facility for His Alma Mater
  • The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, is set to build an ultra-modern ICT facility for his alma mater Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO), located in Tamale in the Northern Region.

Dr. Awal revealed this at the ceremony of the school’s 60th anniversary held last weekend. The project is estimated to cost $400,000. The Minister announced that the project would receive support from the Helping Africa Foundation of the United States of America. He stated that works on the ultra-modern ICT facility would start early next year. The Tourism Minister’s pledge is motivated by his desire to help prepare students for the job market by providing them with the necessary knowledge and ICT skills.

Dr. Awal, who stood in for the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia announced, during the ceremony, that the student who emerges as the overall best student would receive a scholarship package.

“In addition to the provision of the ICT Centre, I will provide a comprehensive scholarship package to the overall best student of the school over the next 10 years,” he said.

The Minister encouraged students to follow in the footprints of their predecessors known for their hard work and discipline.

The management applauded Dr. Awal for his stupendous support in solving the infrastructural needs of the school. The Minister’s contributions include rebuilding the school’s water system and the administrative block and constructing the school’s main gate.

The Headmistress of Ghanasco, Hajia Amina Musah, said that the school has enjoyed support from the government. She thanked the government and the old students for their provisions towards the growth of the school.

According to her, despite prudent management of the school’s limited resources for equipping the next generation, the schools will require ongoing support from the government and old students to improve the school’s infrastructure.

Gijima Receives the Huawei IT Partner of the Year Award

Sopuruchukwu Elizabeth Mba
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Gijima Receives the Huawei IT Partner of the Year Award

Gijima receives the Huawei IT Partner of the Year award. The South African largest black-owned and level one broad-based black economic empowerment ICT provider, and systems integrator, was recognized by Huawei as a significant contributor in the ICT sector.

“It is very special to be the recipient of such a prestigious award and especially from a company such as Huawei, which has invested into local skills over the past decade,” said Sylvester Samuel, chief executive of Gijima Holdings South Africa.

Huawei recognizes exceptional feats by ICT providers who are in partnership with them. Huawei’s partnership with Gijima is one of the long-lasting partnerships which has exceeded a decade.

Huawei awards incredible performance among its partners. Chen Wei, director of solution sales and marketing for Huawei South Africa, said Huawei searches for three qualities in a Huawei IT Partner of the Year.

The first quality is the ability of a company to work with Huawei in the IT sphere to jointly create or break new ground in businesses in the IT field. Second, the company must have worked with Huawei for a long time to develop calculated partnerships in the South African ecosystem, with excellent IT integration capacity. Third, and the vital part, the company must be a key player in transforming IT in Africa.

Wei said Gajima bagged the award because of its unwavering focus on the IT field and its implementation of the Cloud First strategic direction, which aligns with Huawei’s strategic direction sets it apart from other competitors.

“Having a partner who shares the same strategic direction as Huawei proves to bring great value to South Africa,” Wei said.

“Now as we are exiting the Covid 19 pandemic we are finding that it is extremely difficult to get our space in the industry, but being 100% black-owned we are focusing on developing skills locally.

“We are focusing on local innovation and the partnership with Huawei just takes us to a new level. It adds so much value to a company of Gijima’s stature,” Samuel explained the challenges faced by the company as a black-owned ICT provider coupled with the impact of COVID 19.

Wei said, “We further want to consolidate co-operation in the IT field and develop multi-field and multi-industry ICT infrastructure construction plans in South Africa.”

Samuel described the partnership with Huawei as a “fusion of Chinese and South African culture.” He went on to share plans for this partnership.

“We want to focus on the strategy within the innovation topics of the ICT solution such as safe and smart cities and have a greater focus on cloud.

“We want to focus on building an enterprise business with Huawei so that we can have a converged platform for government and local private customers,” Samuel said.

Propel Job Opening: Application Engineer – Blockchain

Hassan Barakat
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Propel Job Opening: Application Engineer – Blockchain

Propel seeks to build an ecosystem for the future of work. With this mission, propel is building novel products, new channels, and extensive partnerships to harness the abundance and growth potential of African tech talent.

Application Engineer Role

  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience: 5 years
  • Location: Lagos
  • Job Field: ICT/Computer

Job Description

  • You will have a particular focus to work with enterprise users (public institutions and private companies) to help them build apps and integrations.
  • You will be working directly with the customer’s team and the engineering team, to deliver and adapt our tools to the specific customer’s requirements.
  • Experience with React, Gatsby, REST APIs, GraphQL.

Job Responsibilities

  • Design creative prototypes according to specifications
  • Perform unit and integration testing before launch
  • Conduct functional and non-functional testing
  • Write high-quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines
  • Understand client requirements and how they translate into application features
  • Collaborate with a team of IT professionals to set specifications for new applications

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software experience
  • 2+ years Javascript experience
  • 2+ years blockchain frontend (web3.js) or backend software experience
  • 2+ years of experience in customer-facing projects

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Apply Here

PennyTree Launches Penn Rules, Financial Discipline App

Mena Adediran
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PennyTree Launches Penn Rules, Financial Discipline App

PennyTree, a Nigerian fintech startup, has released a financial lifestyle app called Penn Rules. The use of this app is to promote healthy financial habits in Nigerians. Penn Rules is said to make financial discipline achievable and “fun.”

Penn Rules users get to merge their savings culture with their lifestyle so they can develop a saving habit that works for them, consistently. Users are enabled to save money as they get paid as well as save while spending.

Savings culture is a topical issue as many individuals experience obstacles in keeping consistent savings; and so PennyTree aims, with this app, to ease the entire process.

Ayo Ogunlowo, co-founder and president of PennyTree, made a statement on this development; “We are currently at a level where savings and wealth building are characterized by setting debit reminders and locking funds away in digital vaults. We are making this more fun and enjoyable by building an affinitive ecosystem; creating a clan of financially savvy customers who would automate wealth as they live their lives.”

The application is currently available on both Apple’s App Store and Android’s Playstore. Ogunlowo further disclosed that the app launch is controlled, and still in its early stage, and open to feedback. 

“This is to ensure that early adopters experience the gamified digital lifestyle platform in its early stage (Minimum Viable Product), giving feedback while continuously improving,” he explained.

Ayo also explained that they made this move in a bid to ensure they understand their customers, implement feedback, roll out new features and scale their architecture to accommodate a bigger customer base.

Bantu Blockchain Community Hangouts Storms the City of Port Harcourt

Boluwatife Aponmade
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Bantu Blockchain Community Hangouts Storms the City of Port Harcourt

Africa’s maiden and largest blockchain infrastructure, Bantu, held its biggest and special community hangout in Port Harcourt, Nigeria at PRUndergraound, on the 29th of November, 2021. It was a successful outing.

Bantu continued its series of special community hangouts, the last one for the year 2021 in the beautiful and vivacious city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The event took place weeks after the previous Bantu hangout that was held in Abuja which attracted over 200 people from all over the country, especially established and notable blockchain technology startups.

The event featured Bantu’s major partner, Sterling bank who sponsored its feature educational game (SABI), just like they did in Abuja, with a two hundred thousand naira cash prize for the ultimate winner, there were also consolation prizes for other participants.

The SABI game came again but this time, had over 30 contestants vying for the grand prize. SABI game is a way of teaching the players and audience about the Bantu blockchain and its ecosystem and has been a hit since its debut a fortnight ago.

Bantu showcases its signature wallet is known as BantuPay, Mitambo (a game of chance built on Bantu blockchain, and Timbuktu Exchange, the world’s first non-custodial peer-to-peer decentralized digital assets exchange. It also showed the audience other validation features of the BantuPay wallet and its mode of operation.

After all funs and games, there was a period of serious conversation with Ernest Mbenekum and Victor Akoma-Phillips, the founders of Bantu about the questions raised by the audience about Bantu’s tokenomics, its long term plan, where Bantu’s Native Utility token (XBN) can be acquired. Bantu’s relationship with other blockchain networks and their potential partnerships with Reserve Banks in Africa to create Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC).

Mbenekum gave hints about other major blockchain projects that will be wrapping their tokens on the Bantu blockchain very soon. The full AMA video clip can be found on the Bantu Blockchain YouTube channel.

Towards the end of the event, Ernest Mbenukum announced a special XBN giveaway at a value of US$1000. To win this special giveaway, active participants at the Bantu hangout were called on stage to play Mitambo (Kinshasa Arena). There were a few groups of five players in each and winners from each group went ahead to play a final round of Mitambo. The overall winner was immediately credited with over 66,000 XBN tokens.

As usual with Bantu hangout, the event ended with a “Scan to claim’ airdrop moment where all attendees who had initially validated their attendance with BantuPay can claim 250 XBN tokens each. This was done courtesy of the Bantu Blockchain Foundation.

The event was filled with lots of interesting things such as networking, strategic meetings with the newly converted Bantu enthusiasts. The Bantu train keeps moving forward, and the next stop for Community hangout will be announced when due.

Pantami Leads Nigeria’s Delegation to Future Tech Forum 2021

Abdulquadri Ayilara
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Pantami Leads Nigeria’s Delegation to Future Tech Forum 2021

Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy is currently leading the Nigerian delegation at the Future Tech Forum in London, UK. The two-day event at London’s Science Museum is a melting pot of worldwide digitization ideas.

The Forum aims to address a variety of challenges, including health-tech advances, digital regulation building blocks, infrastructure, climate change, and artificial intelligence (AI), among others.

Pantami will attend the Ministerial Roundtable on Tuesday, November 30th, 2021, along with ministers of digital economies from other countries, to discuss issues such as the Future of Trust in Data as a Force for Good, the Future of the Internet; Trends and Opportunities, governance challenges, and keeping pace with Tech in Governance Frameworks.

During the event, the Minister will meet with global industry leaders from both the public and private sectors.

At the launch of the Future Tech Forum, Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries remarked “You’ll see “NeXTcube” – the computer that Tim Berners-Lee was using when he developed the World Wide Web – as you go about this building over the next few days. Berners-innovation Lee’s in 1989 set in motion a series of events that has brought us all here today.”

“Because digital technology has altered our way of life dramatically. In reality, the global economy’s – and modern society’s – whole infrastructure is now based on technology. The top five tech firms are now worth about $10 trillion, more than the next 27 most valuable US firms combined. Amazon is the world’s third-largest employer. Apple’s stock is worth more than the whole wealth of Belgium.”

These businesses keep tabs on who we are, what we enjoy, where we go, and what we buy. Mallam Kashif Inuwa Abdullahi (CCIE), Executive Secretary Universal Services Provision Fund (USPF), Mallam Ayuba Shuaibu, Managing Director Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), Dr. Abimbola Alale, Dr. Amina Sambo Magaji, SA Special Duties Dr Kalli Zannah, and Spokesperson to the Minister, Uwa Suleiman, are among the Nigerian delegation at the event.

Africa Data Centres Has Opened a 10MW Colocation Facility in Lagos

Abdulquadri Ayilara
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Africa Data Centres Has Opened a 10MW Colocation Facility in Lagos

Africa Data Centres has announced the formal inauguration of its new 10MW data center facility in Lagos, Nigeria, which is part of one of the continent’s largest networks of an interconnected carrier, and cloud-neutral data center facilities.

According to the company, the new facility would allow hyperscale customers of Africa Data Centres to install digitization solutions throughout West Africa.

Stephane Duproz, CEO of Africa Data Centres, identifies Nigeria as one of the company’s main markets since there is a rapidly-growing need for data centers in the region, which is eager for digitization as African businesses of all sizes speed their digital transformation journeys.

Africa Data Centres, as part of the newly formed Cassava Technologies company, he claims, plays a crucial role in providing the digital infrastructure required to support the region’s growing adoption of digital services by consumers and enterprises.

The most recent data center project from ADC is in Eko Atlantic City, a special economic zone. When fully constructed, the facility would include six data halls with a total area of 6000m².

Duproz also revealed that the new facility is the first of four planned for Nigeria, adding that the company aims to create an additional facility in Lagos at a separate location to assure full disaster backup, as well as facilities in Abuja and Port Harcourt.

“The Africa Data Centre is experiencing an unprecedented demand for fintech services, apps, internet, cloud technologies, and other technologies, all of which are seeing data demand increase.”

“These are the most ambitious ambitions Africa has ever seen.” They will see us construct ten interconnected, cloud- and carrier-neutral data centers throughout the continent in an unprecedented $500 million investment in Africa’s digital transformation, doubling our already large commitment in the continent,” says Duproz.

The 10MW facility in Lagos is an important part of this expansion because Nigeria is a crucial African market for hyperscale customers looking to deploy digitization solutions in West Africa.

According to Duproz, the Lagos facility would serve as the de facto headquarters for Africa Data Centres in West Africa.

BitKE Hosts First Blockchain And Crypto Crash Course For African Journalists

Boluwatife Aponmade
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BitKE Hosts First Blockchain And Crypto Crash Course For African Journalists

Kenyan journalists will receive free education on how to report on cryptocurrency and blockchain thanks to a partnership between BitKE and CELO, a mobile-first blockchain for emerging markets. The first Blockchain and crypto crash course for African Journalists is scheduled to hold on December 3rd Dec 2021 between 09.30 am – 12.30 pm (East Africa Time) and  07.00 am – 10.30 am (West Africa Time).

The Celo Foundation, a non-profit foundation that supports the development of the Celo open blockchain platform has organized a one-day blockchain technology training programme. Topics to be covered include:

  • Introduction to Blockchain and Crypto 
  • Adoption of Blockchain and Crypto in Africa/Kenya
  • The Regulatory Landscape
  • Blockchain Innovations 
  • Reporting on Blockchain and Crypto.

The crash course will be virtual as well as physical, and it will be open to all interested business journalists and editors from across Africa.

The following are some of the trainers for the session:

  • Michael Castillo – Editor, Forbes
  • Daniel Kimotho – Ecosystem Lead Kenya, Celo
  • Roselyne Wanjiru – Lead on Chain Analyst, Utafiti
  • Alex Matu – Educator/Advisor, BitKE.
  • Michael Castillo   Forbes Editor (Keynote speaker).

This is the first of many journalist pieces of training BitKE plans to conduct as part of its mission to educate Africa about crypto and blockchain.

Understandably, the knowledge of crypto and blockchain has not been well spread out in Kenya and other parts of Africa, and that is why BitKE has decided to find a solution by hosting this crash course for Kenyan journalists on Blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Blockchain is a technology that enables the existence of cryptocurrency and other things. For a lot of people, Bitcoin is the most recognized cryptocurrency, but there are a whole lot of others.

Even when blockchain technology and the use and adoption of cryptocurrencies are gaining traction and relevance in Kenya, media coverage of these innovations remains limited and less recognized.

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