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Adumo Data Breach Exposes Payment Source Code on Dark Web A threat actor is offering 15,546 files of Adumo's internal payment byBolu BabalolaApril 20, 2026
Ghana-Italy Cybersecurity Deal Targets 3,500 Incidents and Rising Ghana's national computer emergency response team logged 3,500 cyber incidents byFatima OladunniApril 20, 2026
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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
Africa NewsFebruary 17, 2026 Flextock Just Raised $12.6M to Fix the Broken Backbone of Middle East E-Commerce. With a modular suite spanning fulfillment, shipping, cross-border trade, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 16, 2026 South Africa Just Made Digital Transformation a National Imperative—50+ Commitments, Zero Deadlines President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into Cape Town City Hall on February 12, 2026 byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 16, 2026 African Defence-Tech Startup Terra Industries Raises $22M in Seed Extension, Bringing Total Funding to $34M Terra Industries, the Nigerian defence technology startup building autonomous byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 16, 2026 Lupiya Closes $11.25M Series A After Two Years and “Multiple Rejections”—Here’s Why That Matters for African Fintech Evelyn Chilomo Kaingu didn’t sugarcoat it When Lupiya’s CEO and byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaFebruary 10, 2026 Nigeria Just Collected ₦7.2 Billion in Data Privacy Penalties—And It’s Just Getting Started While Silicon Valley debates AI ethics and Brussels refines GDPR, Nigeria has byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 9, 2026 Google Opens Applications for Accelerator Africa Cohort 10—Now It’s an AI Research Lab, Not Just a Startup Program After nearly a decade of backing African startups, Google is fundamentally byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaFebruary 6, 2026 SouthWest Innovation & Tech Co. Launches Inaugural Pre-Accelerator, Backing 28 African Deep Tech Startups Nigeria’s innovation landscape just got a structural upgrade byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 4, 2026 TymeBank rebrands as GoTyme Bank, signaling global ambitions beyond South Africa South Africa–based digital lender TymeBank has officially rebranded as GoTyme byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 4, 2026 Afreximbank backs eight African startups in first accelerator cohort, offering up to $250k The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has selected eight African startups byFatima Oladunni
