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News NigeriaFebruary 10, 2026 Nigeria Just Collected ₦7.2 Billion in Data Privacy Penalties—And It’s Just Getting Started While Silicon Valley debates AI ethics and Brussels refines GDPR, Nigeria has byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 9, 2026 Google Opens Applications for Accelerator Africa Cohort 10—Now It’s an AI Research Lab, Not Just a Startup Program After nearly a decade of backing African startups, Google is fundamentally byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaFebruary 6, 2026 SouthWest Innovation & Tech Co. Launches Inaugural Pre-Accelerator, Backing 28 African Deep Tech Startups Nigeria’s innovation landscape just got a structural upgrade byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 4, 2026 Afreximbank backs eight African startups in first accelerator cohort, offering up to $250k The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has selected eight African startups byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 4, 2026 LemFi secures AUSTRAC approval, deepening its push into Australia’s remittance market African fintech LemFi has received formal approval from AUSTRAC to operate as an byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaFebruary 2, 2026 Fired Paystack Co-Founder Ezra Olubi Sues Investigative Journalist David Hundeyin for $100K Over Social Media Posts When Ezra Olubi, the former chief technology officer and co-founder of Nigerian byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaFebruary 2, 2026 Nigeria’s Telecom Regulator Hits Operators with $8.85M in Fines Over Chronic Service Failures After years of dropped calls, mysterious data depletion, and network outages byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaJanuary 28, 2026 Airtel Nigeria and UNICEF Launch Links2Work Initiative in Lagos The cost of data shouldn't determine whether a young Nigerian accesses the byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaJanuary 27, 2026 Top Grant and Non-Dilutive Funding Opportunities for African Businesses Closing February 2026 Over $400 million in equity-free funding—grants, credits, mentorship, and byFatima Oladunni
