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News NigeriaMarch 23, 2026 Communiqué IRL Lagos 2.0: Inside the Gathering That’s Reframing Africa’s Creator Conversation The second Lagos edition of Communiqué's flagship IRL series brought together byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaMarch 23, 2026 Meet the Female Nigerian Americans Building Global Tech Innovation From Silicon Valley to Lagos—And Redefining What African Diaspora Leadership Looks Like When Denise Ajayi-Williams convinced Nigeria's Vice President to visit byBolu Babalola
NewsMarch 19, 2026 When Creator Economy Rivals Go to War: Inside the Selar-Mainstack Billboard Battle That Turned a Lagos Conference Into Nigeria’s Messiest Tech Feud of 2026 If you missed it, one of the most explosive tech rivalries of 2026 just played byBolu Babalola
NewsMarch 19, 2026 Kenya’s Big Tech Tax Strategy Collapsed When Trump Killed the Global Deal—But KRA Is Doubling Down Anyway Kenya spent years positioning itself to collect a 15% minimum tax from tech byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMarch 18, 2026 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 Babalola
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Africa NewsMarch 17, 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 Wangari
News NigeriaMarch 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 Oladunni
News NigeriaMarch 16, 2026 NDPC to Nigerian Content Creators: Filming Strangers for TikTok Violates Privacy Law—And Yes, You Can Be Prosecuted On March 13, 2026, Nigeria's data protection regulator put content creators on byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaMarch 13, 2026 CBN Mandates Automated AML Systems Across Nigerian Financial Institutions On March 10, 2026, CBN killed manual anti-money laundering compliance in byFatima Oladunni
