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Okra Solar Secures $7 Million BII Debt Facility to Expand Mesh-Grid Connections Across Rural Nigeria 9 hours ago

Grey Secures CBN IMTO Approval to Strengthen Inbound Remittances in Nigeria 9 hours ago

Nigeria Gift Card Trading Faces Legal Scrutiny as Scammers Cash Out 1 day ago

Binance Reopens Withdrawals After Record $6.3 Billion Hack 1 day ago

OPay NYSE IPO Halted Just Before Trading Over Regulatory Requirement 3 days ago

African Startup Ecosystem

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

by Kingsley Okeke

November 3, 2026

Okra Solar has secured a $7 million debt facility from British International Investment (BII), the UK's development finance institution, to...

Reports

OPay NYSE IPO Halted Just Before Trading Over Regulatory Requirement

October 31, 2026

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

Moonshot 2026 Bluebulb Orbita enterprise treasury platform showcase in Lagos.

Event Radar Africa

Moonshot 2026: Bluebulb Showcases Orbita Platform to Simplify Cross-Border Treasury Operations

October 30, 2026

Event Radar Africa

Moonshot 2026: Mastercard and Interswitch Demonstrate Google Pay Contactless Payments in Nigeria

October 30, 2026

Event Radar Africa

Moonshot 2026: Nigerian Solar-Tech Startup Acecore Wins $10,000 Startup Battlefield Prize

October 30, 2026

Fintech News

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...

Cybersecurity

Binance Reopens Withdrawals After Record $6.3 Billion Hack

November 2, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

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

October 30, 2026

Event Radar Africa

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

October 30, 2026

Global News

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

July 29, 2026

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

July 21, 2026

Tech Policy in Africa

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...

TikTok Sued in Abuja Over Access Blackout in Northern Nigeria

October 8, 2026

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 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

July 29, 2026

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

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

July 25, 2026

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

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

April 28, 2026

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

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

March 12, 2026

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