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OPay Raises $304 Million in New York IPO at $4 Billion Valuation 22 hours ago

Moonshot 2026: Flutterwave CEO Explains Why the Fintech Is Expanding Into Banking 23 hours ago

Moonshot 2026: Bluebulb Showcases Orbita Platform to Simplify Cross-Border Treasury Operations 23 hours ago

Moonshot 2026: Mastercard and Interswitch Demonstrate Google Pay Contactless Payments in Nigeria 23 hours ago

Moonshot 2026: Nigerian Solar-Tech Startup Acecore Wins $10,000 Startup Battlefield Prize 1 day ago

FinTech & Digital Money

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

by Staff Writer

October 30, 2026

The OPay IPO was priced on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at the lower end of its proposed $19 to $21...

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

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.

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

October 30, 2026

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

Event Radar Africa

Moonshot 2026: Grey Launches Paycheck for Foreign-Currency Earners After Processing Nearly $5 Billion

October 30, 2026

Explainers

Deleted Files Can Still Hide on Your Phone and How to Erase Them for Good

October 30, 2026

African Startup Ecosystem

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

October 30, 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

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FinTech & Digital Money

Google Wallet and Google Pay Go Live in Nigeria for Android Users

October 29, 2026

Fintech News

FinTech & Digital Money

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

by Staff Writer

October 30, 2026

The OPay IPO was priced on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at the lower end of its proposed $19 to $21...

Event Radar Africa

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

October 30, 2026

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

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

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Axon AI observability platform created by Nigerian software engineer Feyi Ogunsanya

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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...

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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...

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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...