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 Rest of the WorldFebruary 24, 2026 Anthropic Just Accused DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of Running a $450 Million Heist — Using 24,000 Fake Accounts In the most detailed public accusation of AI model theft to date, Anthropic says byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 23, 2026 Your February Funding Cheat Sheet: 13 Accelerators African Startups Can Still Apply To Before March From Tony Elumelu's $5K grants to Google's $350K cloud credits, here's every byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 20, 2026 Nairobi’s Stock Exchange Is Finally Building a Tech Board. Can It Compete With Johannesburg — Or Will It Join Nigeria’s Zero-IPO Club? After decades as a home for banks, telcos, and brewers, the NSE is creating a byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsFebruary 20, 2026 Anthropic Just Signed Its First African Government Deal — And Rwanda Is Betting Its Digital Future On It In a three-year MOU covering health, education, and public services, Rwanda byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 South Africa’s Araxi Just Dropped R1 Billion on Pay@ — And It’s a Bet on the End of Fragmentation In the biggest payments consolidation deal South Africa has seen in years, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 Gabon Just Flipped the Kill Switch on Social Media — Indefinitely. Here’s What That Actually Costs. The Central African nation joins a growing list of governments using internet byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsFebruary 18, 2026 Dutch Government Bets $3M on Female-Led African Fintech Fund — In a Market Where Women Get Just 10% of VC Dollars First Circle Capital's DGGF partnership is part of a $30 million fundraise byBolu Babalola
News Rest of the WorldFebruary 18, 2026 Unilever Just Bet the Future of Dove, Hellmann’s, and Vaseline on Google’s AI — Here’s Why In a five-year partnership, the CPG giant is migrating its entire data and cloud byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsFebruary 17, 2026 MTN Is Buying Back Africa’s Towers — All of Them — in a $6.2 Billion Deal That Rewrites a Decade of Telecom Strategy After years of spinning out infrastructure to unlock capital, Africa's largest byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaFebruary 17, 2026 Nigeria’s Data Regulator Opens Investigation Into Temu, Putting 12.7 Million Users’ Data Under the Microscope Nigeria’s data protection watchdog has thrown down the gauntlet at one of byFatima Oladunni
