Meta Launches AI Academy Nigeria With FG, Offers $5,000 to Startups Meta has partnered with Nigeria's government to launch AI Academy Nigeria, 3 minute read
Egypt Completes Africa’s First 6GHz Mobile Services Trial Egypt's NTRA, Telecom Egypt and Huawei have completed Africa's first mobile 3 minute read
Nigeria Launches Single Digital Gateway for Government Services Nigeria has soft-launched the Government Service Portal, a single digital 3 minute read
Lesotho Begins Work on a National AI Strategy and Data Centre Plan Lesotho has opened a five-day Maseru workshop to draft a National AI Strategy 3 minute read
Meta Launches AI Academy Nigeria With FG, Offers $5,000 to Startups Meta has partnered with Nigeria's government to launch AI Academy Nigeria, byBolu BabalolaAugust 20, 2026
Egypt Completes Africa’s First 6GHz Mobile Services Trial Egypt's NTRA, Telecom Egypt and Huawei have completed Africa's first mobile byBetty WangariAugust 20, 2026
Nigeria Launches Single Digital Gateway for Government Services Nigeria has soft-launched the Government Service Portal, a single digital byFatima OladunniAugust 19, 2026
Lesotho Begins Work on a National AI Strategy and Data Centre Plan Lesotho has opened a five-day Maseru workshop to draft a National AI Strategy byBetty WangariAugust 19, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 4, 2026 Big Tech Must Pay Up: ECOWAS’ Emerging Strategy to Force Fair Compensation for African News in the AI Training Era While OpenAI pays Western publishers $1-5M annually for training data, African byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMarch 3, 2026 MTN Nigeria’s ₦5.2 Trillion Revenue Is 10% of the Federal Budget — And a Wake-Up Call for Everyone Who Calls Africa “Too Risky” Opinion: One company in Nigeria generated more revenue than all 36 states byBolu Babalola
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
