BII Invests $15M in Starsight Energy: Why Mezzanine Debt for Nigerian Solar Companies Signals That Clean Energy Financing Is Finally Maturing Beyond Donor Grants On March 16, 2026, British International Investment committed $15 million in byBolu BabalolaMarch 18, 2026
Windhoek Launches Accelerate36: Can Namibia Build Africa’s Next Startup Hub By Listing Founders on the Stock Exchange? On March 17, 2026, Namibia unveiled Accelerate36—an ambitious initiative to byBetty WangariMarch 18, 2026
EIB Commits €40M to Speedinvest’s €200M Africa Fund: Why Vienna Becoming a New Fundraising Corridor Matters More Than the Money On March 16, 2026, EIB Global committed €40 million to Speedinvest's first byBetty WangariMarch 17, 2026
Nigeria’s iDICE Tech Fund Finally Lands With a $729K Startup Grant: Three Years, $618M Pledged, and the First Check Is ₦1 Billion for 100 Founders Three years after Nigeria launched one of Africa's most ambitious digital byFatima OladunniMarch 17, 2026
Africa News NigeriaNovember 18, 2025 German-Backed Program Offers African Startups €100K Grants—If They Can Match It. develoPPP Ventures opens applications across seven markets, but there's a catch: byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaNovember 16, 2025 Women in Web3: How Progress Ochuko Eyaadah Is Making Web3 Accessible to More African Women. Africa’s Web3 ecosystem is expanding fast, but its talent story still skews byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaNovember 14, 2025 Is This The Fall of a Tech God? Inside Ezra Olubi’s Spectacular Unraveling. How a birthday celebration turned into a national scandal that threatens to byMuhammed Mustapha
News NigeriaNovember 12, 2025 Equinix Doubles Down on Nigeria with $100M Expansion Plan, Escalating West Africa’s Data Center Arms Race. The world's largest data center operator is betting big on Lagos as Africa's byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaNovember 12, 2025 Jumia Just Killed 99% of Its Fintech Orders—And Wall Street Might Actually Like It. The "Amazon of Africa" is betting its future on fewer, more profitable byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaNovember 10, 2025 Nigeria’s National Payment Stack Goes Live with First Transaction Between PalmPay and Wema Bank. Nigeria just took a major leap forward in financial infrastructure byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaNovember 5, 2025 UniCloud Africa Launches Sovereign Cloud Platform to Power Africa’s Digital Independence. Pan-African cloud provider targets $5B market with locally-hosted infrastructure byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaOctober 31, 2025 How Sooter Saalu Is Helping Global Startups Avoid Chaos Through Documentation Engineering. In 2018, millions of customers at a major UK bank woke up to a digital banking byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaOctober 31, 2025 MTN Nigeria Reports N750.2 Billion Profit in Q3 2025, Reversing Previous Year’s Loss. MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has bounced back strongly in the first nine byMuhammed Mustapha
News NigeriaOctober 29, 2025 Nigeria Moves to Establish Fintech Regulatory Commission as Bill Passes Second Reading. Nigeria is one step closer to a major transformation in its fintech oversight byFatima Oladunni
