Moniepoint Lent ₦1 Trillion Using Payment Data as Gospel. Two Massive Defaults Just Exposed the Limits of Knowing Everything Except What Happens Next. Nigeria's fastest-growing fintech disbursed ₦1 trillion to 70,000 businesses in byBolu BabalolaMarch 6, 2026
Francophone Africa’s VC Awakening: How AfDB’s €6.5M Saviu Fund Is Shifting the Power Map West and Central For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town byFatima OladunniMarch 6, 2026
Enugu’s Quiet Tech Takeover: Can Nigeria’s Southeast Become the Continent’s Next Lagos or Nairobi? With 53,000 people at its tech festival, $50M in startup funding facilitated, byFatima OladunniMarch 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 BabalolaMarch 4, 2026
Africa News StartupMarch 11, 2025 Revolut Eyes South Africa’s Digital Banking Market Amid Fierce Competition. Revolut, the $45 billion-valued neobank, has officially confirmed its interest byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupMarch 11, 2025 Moroccan Superapp ORA Technologies Raises $1.9M to Expand Food Delivery and Digital Payments. Morocco-based superapp ORA Technologies has successfully closed a $1 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 11, 2025 Google Hustle Academy 2025: Empowering SMBs with AI-Powered Training Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) remain the backbone of Africa’s byFatima Oladunni
Africa News StartupMarch 7, 2025 South African Agri-Tech Startup Khula Secures $6.8M in Series A Funding. South African agri-tech startup Khula has raised ZAR126 million (US$6 byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupMarch 7, 2025 Egyptian AI Startup Widebot Secures $3M Pre-Series A Funding. Egyptian artificial intelligence (AI) startup Widebot has raised $3 million in byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupMarch 6, 2025 Kenyan Re-Commerce Startup Badili Secures $400,000 Debt Funding from Proparco to Expand Affordable Smartphone Access. Kenyan re-commerce startup Badili has secured US$400,000 in debt funding from byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 6, 2025 Ghana’s Digital Future: Ministry of Communications and MTN Ghana Sign Landmark MoU at MWC 2025 At Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, the Ministry of Communications, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 5, 2025 Canal+ Extends Deadline for MultiChoice Acquisition Due to Regulatory Hurdles. Canal+ and MultiChoice Group (MCG) have announced an extension of the Long Stop byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMarch 4, 2025 MTN Ghana Reports Strong Performance in 2024, Announces Positive Growth Across Key Metrics. Scancom PLC (MTN Ghana) has released its Condensed Consolidated and Separate byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 4, 2025 Minister of Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovations Engages Ecosystem Stakeholders on Ghana Innovation and Start-Up Bill. Hon byBolu Babalola