What is Mobile Money? — What is Mobile Money? For the uninitiated, Agency Banking/Mobile Money has blown up across Africa and Asia in the last decade. Pioneered by telecom service providers like Vodafone and Safaricom with mPesa in Kenya in 2007, the global mobile money market now processes over $490bn in transactions yearly. Mobile Money or Agency Banking is…

From driving over 70km on a Saturday morning to Shapati, a town in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria where the nearest bank might be 10–20km… — From driving over 70km on a Saturday morning to Shapati, a town in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria where the nearest bank might be 10–20km away from you, to creating a WhatsApp group and sending out Google Forms to our first 10 Mobile Money Agents residing in Shapati, we’ve grown…

In this article you’ll learn what E-mail aliases are and how to setup group E-mails for a custom E-mail account in g-mail. — Starting a company is hard. Figuring out how to set up and configure E-mails for your organisation shouldn’t make your life any harder. In this tutorial, I’ll explain how I walked through solving two issues we recently had at Moni — redirecting E-mails sent to old staff to new staff…

Nothing on this trip went as planned and that was a good thing! Everything you need to know about how my trip to Benin Republic went! — Nothing on this trip went as planned and that was a good thing! What struck me the most about my time in Benin Republic is how similar yet how different they are to us (Nigerians). …

Want to know what it’s like working remotely as a Software Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria? Dive in! — January 2021 Update: This article was originally written in 2020. It’s now 2021 and thankfully, many more companies are learning to cope better with COVID. Let’s hope that this year brings in an effective Vaccine and things go back to some sort of normalcy. 2020 has been a year! There…

Let’s build a chat application with Pusher’s API and React. — Let’s build a chat application with Pusher’s API Why Pusher? Pusher provides a number of affordable, easy to use APIs to add Realtime functionality to Web applications. From Realtime communication that allows users send instant messages to each other to Realtime location that allows users know the exact location of their packages…

Here’s Day 2 of my trip to Osun State! We visited the Erin Ijesa Waterfalls, Nike Art Gallery and the Osogbo sacred Grove! — If you somehow missed the first part, you can read it here! After Dinner, I was tired and exhausted but Rupesh, Vivienne and Judith were determined that none of us would go to sleep early that night and we were all going to play games and eat the cake from…

Everything you need to know about the first Day of my Trip to Osun State. Day 1 covers exploring Ife. — It has taken me a while to get to this article but here goes! Everything you need to know about the first Day of my Trip to Osun State. Day 1 covers exploring Ife. The Gallivanter traventures(click to follow on ig) planned my most recent trip and this time, we…

WordPress is a fully-fledged content management system. In this article we’ll combine the power of WordPress with the React framework. — This article was first published on the Aeeiee Blog. React, the frontend framework created at Facebook in 2013, with over 165k GitHub stars is now one of the most loved Frontend frameworks used by JavaScript developers. React is a powerful framework that allows developers to create re-usable code blocks called…