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Africa Tech News: Startups, Fintech and Innovation

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Airtel Money’s $7bn London IPO Excludes Nigeria’s SmartCash Business 2 hours ago

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INEC Boosts BVAS Security and Plans AI for 2027 Elections 5 hours ago

Glovo Nigeria MD Lamide Akinola Steps Down After Building Business Into $80m Operation 8 hours ago

Airtel Money Agrees to Tougher AML Reviews as IFC Backs London IPO With $90m 8 hours ago

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Airtel Money London IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Airtel Money’s $7bn London IPO Excludes Nigeria’s SmartCash Business

by Staff Writer

October 6, 2026

Airtel Money is preparing for one of Africa’s largest fintech listings, but its Nigerian payments business will not form part...

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an image of an ororo waste technician

Ororo Waste Secures Up to $1 Million to Expand Used Cooking Oil Collection in Nigeria

October 6, 2026

An INEC BVAS electoral device

INEC Boosts BVAS Security and Plans AI for 2027 Elections

October 6, 2026

Glovo Nigeria MD

Glovo Nigeria MD Lamide Akinola Steps Down After Building Business Into $80m Operation

October 6, 2026

Airtel Money IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Airtel Money Agrees to Tougher AML Reviews as IFC Backs London IPO With $90m

October 6, 2026

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

Cybersecurity

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

October 6, 2026

An image of Meta glasses launch

Artificial Intelligence

Meta Unveils Hologram Calls for VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display

October 6, 2026

Five finance apps Nigerians can use to manage spending, savings and investments

FinTech & Digital Money

5 Useful Finance Apps in Nigeria for Managing Your Money

October 6, 2026

digital postcode system

African Startup Ecosystem

Nigerian Startup Milsat Powers New Digital Postcode After Mapping 65 Million Properties

October 6, 2026

Ghana 5G market

African Telecommunications

Ghana Opens 5G Market as MTN Secures $202m Spectrum and Telecel Plans December Launch

October 5, 2026

Fintech News

Airtel Money London IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Airtel Money’s $7bn London IPO Excludes Nigeria’s SmartCash Business

by Staff Writer

October 6, 2026

Airtel Money is preparing for one of Africa’s largest fintech listings, but its Nigerian payments business will not form part...

Read more

Airtel Money IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Airtel Money Agrees to Tougher AML Reviews as IFC Backs London IPO With $90m

October 6, 2026

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

Cybersecurity

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

October 6, 2026

Five finance apps Nigerians can use to manage spending, savings and investments

FinTech & Digital Money

5 Useful Finance Apps in Nigeria for Managing Your Money

October 6, 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

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

Cybersecurity

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

by Faith Amonimo

October 6, 2026

A breach claim can affect customer trust long before investigators establish exactly what happened. That creates a difficult problem for...

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NDPC REGISTRATION GUIDELINE

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

October 5, 2026

Meta Appeals Lagos Ruling on Ad Tracking

Meta Appeals Lagos Ruling That Bars Forced Ad Tracking

October 5, 2026

Côte d'Ivoire's Tourism and Leisure Minister, Siandou Fofana

Côte d’Ivoire’s AI Tourism Strategy Targets 10 Million Visitors

October 2, 2026

What is DPCO in Nigeria: How Data Protection Compliance Organisations Help Businesses

September 28, 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

An INEC BVAS electoral device

Artificial Intelligence

INEC Boosts BVAS Security and Plans AI for 2027 Elections

October 6, 2026

An image of Meta glasses launch

Artificial Intelligence

Meta Unveils Hologram Calls for VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display

October 6, 2026

Google Gemini 4 Argon

Artificial Intelligence

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

October 5, 2026

Côte d'Ivoire's Tourism and Leisure Minister, Siandou Fofana

Artificial Intelligence

Côte d’Ivoire’s AI Tourism Strategy Targets 10 Million Visitors

October 2, 2026

African Startup Ecosystem

Glovo Nigeria MD

African Startup Ecosystem

Glovo Nigeria MD Lamide Akinola Steps Down After Building Business Into $80m Operation

by Staff Writer

October 6, 2026

Lamide Akinola has stepped down as Managing Director of Glovo Nigeria, bringing to an end a three-year tenure during which...

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digital postcode system

Nigerian Startup Milsat Powers New Digital Postcode After Mapping 65 Million Properties

October 6, 2026

An image of a SiGMA panel

African Startups Can Now Pitch to 30 Plus Investors at SiGMA Africa 2027

October 5, 2026

African startup funding 2026

African Startups Raised $583m in Q3 as Funding Rebounds, Disrupt Africa Data Shows

October 5, 2026

mtn head office 1500 800

MTN Loses Bid to Halt US Anti-Terrorism Lawsuits as Discovery Begins

September 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

Airtel Money London IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Airtel Money’s $7bn London IPO Excludes Nigeria’s SmartCash Business

October 6, 2026

an image of an ororo waste technician

Funding news

Ororo Waste Secures Up to $1 Million to Expand Used Cooking Oil Collection in Nigeria

October 6, 2026

An INEC BVAS electoral device

Artificial Intelligence

INEC Boosts BVAS Security and Plans AI for 2027 Elections

October 6, 2026

Glovo Nigeria MD

African Startup Ecosystem

Glovo Nigeria MD Lamide Akinola Steps Down After Building Business Into $80m Operation

October 6, 2026

Airtel Money IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Airtel Money Agrees to Tougher AML Reviews as IFC Backs London IPO With $90m

October 6, 2026

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

Cybersecurity

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

October 6, 2026

An image of Meta glasses launch

Artificial Intelligence

Meta Unveils Hologram Calls for VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display

October 6, 2026

Five finance apps Nigerians can use to manage spending, savings and investments

FinTech & Digital Money

5 Useful Finance Apps in Nigeria for Managing Your Money

October 6, 2026

digital postcode system

African Startup Ecosystem

Nigerian Startup Milsat Powers New Digital Postcode After Mapping 65 Million Properties

October 6, 2026

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