Nigeria Data Localisation: Half of Firms Yet to Start Half of the 44 financial institutions NITDA surveyed have not started moving 3 minute read
CBN Stablecoin Rules: ₦15bn Floor for Dollar Issuers Foreign-currency stablecoin issuers now need a Nigerian company, a staffed local 3 minute read
WayaWaya Banking Launches in Kenya With Choice Bank WayaWaya has partnered with Choice Bank to launch WayaWaya Banking, a service 3 minute read
Airtel Africa Tech Fellowship Opens for 2026/2027 Intake Airtel Nigeria has reopened the door to its fully funded technology scholarship, 3 minute read
Nigeria Data Localisation: Half of Firms Yet to Start Half of the 44 financial institutions NITDA surveyed have not started moving byFatima OladunniNovember 11, 2026
CBN Stablecoin Rules: ₦15bn Floor for Dollar Issuers Foreign-currency stablecoin issuers now need a Nigerian company, a staffed local byFatima OladunniNovember 11, 2026
WayaWaya Banking Launches in Kenya With Choice Bank WayaWaya has partnered with Choice Bank to launch WayaWaya Banking, a service byBetty WangariNovember 9, 2026
Airtel Africa Tech Fellowship Opens for 2026/2027 Intake Airtel Nigeria has reopened the door to its fully funded technology scholarship, byBolu BabalolaNovember 9, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 2, 2026 MTN Ghana Just Became Africa’s Third Most Important Telecom Market — And It’s Betting $1.1 Billion That AI and Mobile Money Will Keep It There After South Africa and Nigeria, Ghana is now MTN Group's third "major byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionFebruary 27, 2026 When Nairagram Raised ₦10 Billion in 48 Hours Three Weeks Ago, It Exposed a Truth Most Nigerian Fintechs Don’t Want to Hear Opinion: Earlier this month, a payments company fully subscribed a commercial byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupFebruary 26, 2026 Ghana’s Fido Just Raised $5.5M to Prove AI Can Underwrite Africa’s ‘Unbankable’ — Without a Credit Score in Sight With over 1 million customers, $500 million disbursed, and a proprietary AI byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 25, 2026 Spiro Just Raised $50M in Debt to Flood Africa With Electric Motorcycles. The Real Question: Can Battery Swaps Actually Scale? With 80,000 e-bikes deployed, 30 million battery swaps completed, and $230 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Morocco’s WafR Just Raised $4M to Turn 100,000 Corner Stores Into Digital Banks. Here’s Why That Actually Works With 20,000 neighborhood shops already processing mobile top-ups, bill payments, byBolu Babalola
News Rest of the WorldFebruary 24, 2026 Anthropic Just Accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of Running a $450 Million Heist — Using 24,000 Fake Accounts In the most detailed public accusation of AI model theft to date, Anthropic says byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 South Africa’s Araxi Just Dropped R1 Billion on Pay@ — And It’s a Bet on the End of Fragmentation In the biggest payments consolidation deal South Africa has seen in years, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 Dutch Government Bets $3M on Female-Led African Fintech Fund — In a Market Where Women Get Just 10% of VC Dollars First Circle Capital's DGGF partnership is part of a $30 million fundraise byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 17, 2026 Flextock Just Raised $12.6M to Fix the Broken Backbone of Middle East E-Commerce. With a modular suite spanning fulfillment, shipping, cross-border trade, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 16, 2026 South Africa Just Made Digital Transformation a National Imperative—50+ Commitments, Zero Deadlines President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into Cape Town City Hall on February 12, 2026 byBolu Babalola
