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
Africa NewsJanuary 27, 2026 AfricInvest Returns to Morocco With $100M Fund Targeting the “Missing Middle” The timing couldn’t be more deliberate byBolu Babalola
Africa News Rest of the WorldJanuary 26, 2026 Inside Khaby Lame’s $900M Deal: The Math Doesn’t Add Up the Way You Think Everyone saw the headline byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaJanuary 22, 2026 Applications Open for Startup World Cup May Showdown in Abuja Africa’s vibrant startup ecosystem is gearing up for a major international byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaJanuary 21, 2026 African Impact Challenge Opens Cohort 6: $25,000 CAD, Toronto Residency, and Four Tracks to Transform African Innovation The gatekeepers of African innovation just opened their doors again byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsJanuary 20, 2026 12 Startups Set to Battle for Capital at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi’s Investment Showcase From AI-powered humanoid robots to blockchain payment rails, the February pitch byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsJanuary 19, 2026 Uganda Restores Internet Access Following 2026 Elections: What It Means for East Africa’s Digital Future After nearly 100 hours offline and billions in economic losses, Uganda's byBetty Wangari
Africa News NigeriaJanuary 16, 2026 Nigeria Leaps 31 Places in Global AI Readiness: From Policy to Infrastructure, Africa’s Giant Is Building for Scale Nigeria has climbed from 103rd to 72nd in the Oxford Government AI Readiness byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaJanuary 14, 2026 Meta Loses Landmark Case as Lagos Court Awards $25,000 to Femi Falana A Lagos High Court has struck a decisive blow against Big Tech's "mere platform" byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaJanuary 14, 2026 Paystack Expands Beyond Payments with Microfinance Bank for Nigerian Businesses Paystack, the Nigeria-founded payments company acquired by Stripe in 2020, has byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaJanuary 12, 2026 Terrahaptix Raises $11.8M to Scale Homegrown Drones for Africa’s Security Challenges. An Abuja-based drone manufacturer is drawing serious attention from Silicon byBolu Babalola
