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
News NigeriaSeptember 1, 2025 Nigeria Accelerates Digital Government Vision with Korea Partnership Training Program. 438 civil servants across federal agencies receive intensive digital byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaAugust 28, 2025 Nigeria’s Telecom Transformation: Record Data Surge Amid Subscriber Decline. The Nigerian telecommunications landscape is experiencing a fascinating paradox byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsAugust 27, 2025 Canal+ Moves Closer to $7.8B MultiChoice Takeover as Key Shareholders Approve Restructuring. French media giant Canal+ has cleared a significant regulatory hurdle in its byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaAugust 27, 2025 CBN Mandates GPS Tracking for All PoS Devices: 4 Million Terminals Must Comply Within 60 Days. Nigeria’s Central Bank has issued a sweeping directive that will byFatima Oladunni
Africa News StartupAugust 27, 2025 Egyptian Super-App Breadfast Raise $10M at $400M Valuation as Fintech Expansion Accelerates. Egyptian on-demand delivery startup Breadfast has secured a significant funding byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaAugust 25, 2025 Nigeria’s Data Protection Commission Strengthens Partnership with UN World Food Programme on Data Privacy. In a significant move to enhance data protection standards across international byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsAugust 25, 2025 Ghana Secures $100M Investment to Become Africa’s First AI-Powered Agricultural Hub. Ghana is set to revolutionize its agricultural landscape with a groundbreaking byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaAugust 25, 2025 Nigeria Launches Phase 2 of Creative Economy Development Fund, Targeting SMEs and MSMEs. The Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism, and Creative Economy (FMACTCE) byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaAugust 21, 2025 Lagos State Innovation Bill Proposes $100M+ Research & Development Innovation Fund to Transform Tech Ecosystem. The Lagos State Innovation Bill has introduced a groundbreaking proposal for the byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaAugust 19, 2025 MEST Opens Applications for $50K Fintech Challenge Across 9 African Markets. The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced the byBolu Babalola