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FG and Cascador Hand N49m in Non-Dilutive Funding to 17 Young Nigerian Founders 1 hour ago

ChatGPT Users Push Back as OpenAI Retires Standard and Advanced Voice 7 hours ago

Training Firms Can Now Apply for ₦4 Billion in 3MTT Cohort 5 Funding 7 hours ago

Google Backs Nigeria’s First Nationwide Teen Internet Study With $600,000 7 hours ago

Yoco Lands $100 Million Credit Facility to Power South African SME Lending 1 day ago

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Funding news

FG and Cascador Hand N49m in Non-Dilutive Funding to 17 Young Nigerian Founders

by Kingsley Okeke

November 12, 2026

The federal government and Cascador, a Nigeria-focused platform for growth-stage founders, have committed N49 million in non-dilutive funding to 17...

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Chatgpt Voice models

ChatGPT Users Push Back as OpenAI Retires Standard and Advanced Voice

November 12, 2026

Bosun Tijani announces 3mtt

Training Firms Can Now Apply for ₦4 Billion in 3MTT Cohort 5 Funding

November 12, 2026

Google Backs Nigeria’s First Nationwide Teen Internet Study With $600,000

November 12, 2026

Yoco founders

Funding news

Yoco Lands $100 Million Credit Facility to Power South African SME Lending

November 11, 2026

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News

Nvidia Board Launches Probe Into CEO Jensen Huang Over Alleged Chinese Spy Link

November 11, 2026

Moniepoint, Tosin Eniolorunda Foundation Reward OAU Final-Year Students

Education

Moniepoint Backs OAU Engineering Students With ₦1 Million for Practical Innovations

November 11, 2026

Qatar Investment for Africa

News

African Startups Can Tap Up to $5.5 Million From Qatar Investment Programme

November 11, 2026

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News

INEC Bans Web Cameras in Voter Registration, Moves to App-Based Cameras After AI Photo Scandal

November 10, 2026

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Cybersecurity

Do Fake Alerts Exist?

November 9, 2026

Fintech News

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FinTech & Digital Money

Grey Secures CBN IMTO Approval to Strengthen Inbound Remittances in Nigeria

by Kingsley Okeke

November 3, 2026

Y Combinator-backed cross-border payments company Grey has received approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to operate as...

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Cybersecurity

Binance Reopens Withdrawals After Record $6.3 Billion Hack

November 2, 2026

OPay IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

OPay Raises $304 Million in New York IPO at $4 Billion Valuation

October 30, 2026

Moonshot 2026 Flutterwave banking discussion featuring CEO Olugbenga Agboola in Lagos.

Event Radar Africa

Moonshot 2026: Flutterwave CEO Explains Why the Fintech Is Expanding Into Banking

October 30, 2026

Global News

Google Gemini 4 Argon

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon and the New Rules of AI Competition

October 5, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs addressing UN Security Council on AI regulation

Two AI CEOs Warns that AI could risk humanity if managed poorly

September 25, 2026

Code on a laptop screen, illustrating Hacktron AI security research that reached OpenAI's internal systems

How a 3-Person Team Used Claude to Hack OpenAI in 72 Hours

September 21, 2026

WhatsApp Opens to Third-Party AI Agents After EU Ruling

September 21, 2026

Facebook Marketplace seller app interface showing listing management dashboard

Facebook launches Marketplace Seller App and free verification

YouTube AI Slop Policy: What Creators Need to Know in 2026

Tech Policy in Africa

Ghana 20% Digital Tax

Policy & Regulations

Ghana Begins Collecting 20% Tax on Netflix, ChatGPT and Other Foreign Digital Services Through Banks

by Staff Writer

October 17, 2026

Ghana has introduced a new collection system for taxes on foreign digital services, requiring participating banks and payment providers to...

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TikTok Sued in Abuja Over Access Blackout in Northern Nigeria

October 8, 2026

Kredete licence announcement

Kredete Acquires South African Crypto Licence to Power Stablecoin Payments

October 7, 2026

Digital banking trust in Nigeria as banks strengthen cybersecurity and customer protection

How Breach Claims Can Strengthen Trust in Nigeria’s Digital Banking

October 6, 2026

NDPC REGISTRATION GUIDELINE

NDPC Registration in Nigeria: How Data Controllers and Processors Can Register

October 5, 2026

Exclusive Interviews

Axon AI observability platform created by Nigerian software engineer Feyi Ogunsanya

Exclusive Interviews

Meet the Nigerian Engineer Behind Axon: The Open-Source Tool Helping Developers Debug AI Agents

by Covenant Oluwadunsin Aladenola

When Feyi Ogunsanya found herself spending more time piecing together logs than building AI applications, she realized the problem wasn't...

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Trippa's delivery platform, built to tackle Nigeria's last-mile delivery costs through routing, dispatch automation, and real-time tracking

E-Commerce

How Trippa Is Solving Africa’s Most Expensive Delivery Problem

by Onyinye Moyosore

Last-mile delivery eats up 35 to 55% of shipping cost in African e-commerce, nearly double the global average. Trippa's head...

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Exclusive Interviews

Bootstrapped? No Excuses: How Paul Ugochukwu Obere Faced Giants, Grew Revenue, and Dropped CAC for One of Nigeria’s Leading Crypto Exchanges.

by Onyinye Moyosore

Crypto is an unforgiving market. Low barriers to entry, fierce competition, and no room for campaigns that look good but...

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chidinma chebani

Exclusive Interviews

Google Ads Adoption. Cloud. Fintech. AI. Chidinma Aroyewun Has Been at the Frontier of Every Wave. Here Is What She Learned.

by Ifeanyi Abraham

Across the world, artificial intelligence is changing how businesses find customers, measure performance, automate marketing, and make growth decisions. In...

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Women Entrepreneurs

Exclusive Interviews

EXCLUSIVE: These 6 Women Entrepreneurs & Leaders Share What They’re Building, Their Journeys and How They’re Driving Impact

by Faith Amonimo

December 2, 2025

In this spotlight, we meet inspiring women leaders who are rewriting the rules. They are bold thinkers and builders who...

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Artificial Intelligence

Chatgpt Voice models

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Users Push Back as OpenAI Retires Standard and Advanced Voice

November 12, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Chip Boom Pushes RAM and Computer Prices to Record Highs

November 5, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence

Aboyeji’s Talent Nation Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Train One Million African AI Engineers

October 30, 2026

INFRAGORA builds data center in Nigeria

Artificial Intelligence

INFRAGORA Plans Two AI-Ready Data Centres in Nigeria Worth Up to $1 Billion

October 26, 2026

African Startup Ecosystem

Bosun Tijani announces 3mtt

African Startup Ecosystem

Training Firms Can Now Apply for ₦4 Billion in 3MTT Cohort 5 Funding

by Kingsley Okeke

November 12, 2026

The Federal Government has opened applications for organisations and individual experts who want to deliver training under the 3 Million...

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Helium Health secures Google.org grant

Helium Health Wins $2.5 Million Google Grant to Fight Maternal Deaths With AI

November 5, 2026

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Egypt’s Nclude Closes $112 Million Fund to Back Fintech and AI Startups in Africa and the Middle East

November 4, 2026

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Okra Solar Secures $7 Million BII Debt Facility to Expand Mesh-Grid Connections Across Rural Nigeria

November 3, 2026

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Africa Tech Festival 2026 Brings Google, OpenAI and MTN Leaders to Cape Town

October 30, 2026

E-commerce

An image of a shopify website on a laptop

E-Commerce

Paystack Launches First Onsite Shopify Card Checkout In South Africa

September 25, 2026

Newly deployed LagRide vehicles, part of a 400-car rollout across Lagos ahead of the Ember months

E-Commerce

LagRide Ember Rush: 400 New Vehicles Deployed, 1,000+ More Captains Targeted before Detty December

September 1, 2026

News

An image of the Cascador funding winners

Funding news

FG and Cascador Hand N49m in Non-Dilutive Funding to 17 Young Nigerian Founders

November 12, 2026

Chatgpt Voice models

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Users Push Back as OpenAI Retires Standard and Advanced Voice

November 12, 2026

Bosun Tijani announces 3mtt

African Startup Ecosystem

Training Firms Can Now Apply for ₦4 Billion in 3MTT Cohort 5 Funding

November 12, 2026

Google in africa

Reports

Google Backs Nigeria’s First Nationwide Teen Internet Study With $600,000

November 12, 2026

Yoco founders

Funding news

Yoco Lands $100 Million Credit Facility to Power South African SME Lending

November 11, 2026

An image of Jensen Huang

News

Nvidia Board Launches Probe Into CEO Jensen Huang Over Alleged Chinese Spy Link

November 11, 2026

Moniepoint, Tosin Eniolorunda Foundation Reward OAU Final-Year Students

Education

Moniepoint Backs OAU Engineering Students With ₦1 Million for Practical Innovations

November 11, 2026

Qatar Investment for Africa

News

African Startups Can Tap Up to $5.5 Million From Qatar Investment Programme

November 11, 2026

An image of Prof Joash Amupitan, chairman of INEC

News

INEC Bans Web Cameras in Voter Registration, Moves to App-Based Cameras After AI Photo Scandal

November 10, 2026

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