Piggyvest has been named on CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 list for the third consecutive year, becoming the only African company recognised in the Wealth Technology category alongside ...

Jack Dorsey has never been shy about wanting to dismantle the platforms he thinks have too much power over how people work, talk and transact. He walked away from the company he co-founded, Twitter, ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has introduced a mandatory Communications Equipment Distributor (CED) Licence for all companies that import and wholesale communications equipment such as ...

Last week, Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye sat in the front row at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture show in Paris, right next to Cardi B, and Nigerian timelines have not recovered. If you ...

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The adoption of solar power has risen significantly in recent years, now accounting for up to 20% of Nigeria’s electricity usage. The deepening embrace of this technology is expected to reach 50% in ...

SpaceXAI and OpenAI, two of the AI industry’s most-watched labs, shipped competing frontier models within 24 hours of each other, turning a routine release week into a referendum on price, speed and ...

Vozinha, the goalkeeper of Cape Verde’s national football team, has emerged as the player with the most followers on Instagram because of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. He gained 6.79 million followers in ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all financial institutions and payment operators to store and manage payment transaction data generated within Nigeria on local servers, giving the ...

Seventeen Nigerian entrepreneurs have been included in Africa’s Business Heroes 2026 (ABH) Top 100, making Nigeria jointly the top country alongside Egypt and Kenya with the most representatives in ...

Moroccan property technology startup Agenz has successfully secured a $5 million seed round, co-led by the Paris-based venture firm Breega, Attijariwafa Ventures (the corporate investment arm of North ...

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