The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has resumed full enforcement of its digital lending regulations after a Federal High Court dismissed a legal challenge against the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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My Family Cinema (MFC), a popular video streaming platform known for piracy, has shut down after facing copyright issues. The platform’s forced exit is linked to a recent crackdown on piracy networks ...

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 ...

Latest industry data show that about 83.2% of Nigerian phone users are now connected to the internet, underscoring how Nigerians are increasingly penetrating the digital space. This means that for ...

When you pay for suya with your card at 11 p.m. in Lagos and the POS machine chirps “Approved” within seconds, you probably think it’s just your bank doing its job. But behind the scenes, there’s an ...

Before OPay became one of Africa’s largest fintechs with nearly 50 million users, it was a company wondering whether it would survive its first year. That is the honest account Dotun Adekunle, OPay’s ...

Amazon Leo, Amazon’s satellite internet service, is nearing its official launch in South Africa after securing a partnership deal with Herotel, the local company that will serve as its distributor.

Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal has ruled that works generated by artificial intelligence cannot attract copyright protection or be registered as original creations ...

Despite recent increases in connectivity, the presence of telecom towers and smartphone adoption in many rural communities across Nigeria remains limited. A recent industry report revealed that ...