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Ghana Begins Collecting 20% Tax on Netflix, ChatGPT and Other Foreign Digital Services Through Banks 7 hours ago

Onafriq Shuts Down Baxi Agent Banking Business in Nigeria, Five Years After Acquisition 7 hours ago

Morocco Creates First AI Ministry, Targets $10 Billion Economic Boost and 50,000 Jobs by 2030 7 hours ago

Fraud Has Become an Industry. Why Are Banks Still Fighting It as Though It Were a Collection of Individual Crimes? 8 hours ago

Tesla Roadster Flips Midair in Explosive SpaceX Powered Unveiling 2 days ago

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...

Onafriq Shuts Down Baxi Agent Banking Business in Nigeria, Five Years After Acquisition

October 17, 2026

Morocco AI Ministry targets $10 billion economic boost and 50,000 jobs by 2030

Morocco Creates First AI Ministry, Targets $10 Billion Economic Boost and 50,000 Jobs by 2030

October 17, 2026

Fraud Has Become an Industry. Why Are Banks Still Fighting It as Though It Were a Collection of Individual Crimes?

October 17, 2026

Technology

Tesla Roadster Flips Midair in Explosive SpaceX Powered Unveiling

October 16, 2026

Uncategorized

Econet InfraCo Shows a Template for Using AI Fuel Management to Cut Diesel Costs

October 15, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

MoneyHash Partners With Ozow to Expand Online Payment Options in South Africa

October 15, 2026

Apps, Gadgets, Tools & Softwares

Spotify Brings Audiobooks to Nigeria in Major 180-Market Expansion

October 15, 2026

Business & Markets

Nigerian-Co-Founded AI Startup Minicor Raises $3.8 Million to Connect AI With Legacy Business Software

October 14, 2026

African Telecommunications

MTN SA Hits 10Gbps in Upper 6GHz 5G-Advanced Trial

October 14, 2026

Fintech News

FinTech & Digital Money

Onafriq Shuts Down Baxi Agent Banking Business in Nigeria, Five Years After Acquisition

by Staff Writer

October 17, 2026

Pan-African payments company Onafriq is shutting down Baxi, its Nigerian agent banking business, after naira depreciation, rising operating costs, and...

Cybersecurity

Fraud Has Become an Industry. Why Are Banks Still Fighting It as Though It Were a Collection of Individual Crimes?

October 17, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

MoneyHash Partners With Ozow to Expand Online Payment Options in South Africa

October 15, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

Dollar Crunch Pushes African Firms Towards Stablecoins

October 8, 2026

Global News

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...