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NEWSFLASH

Spotify Tightens Family Plan Rules With New QR Code Verification 11 hours ago

Who Is Hack Sultan? The Growth Hacker Taking Over AltSchool Africa as Adewale Yusuf Steps Down as CEO 18 hours ago

Egyptian Proptech Aqar Exit Secures $200,000 Funding, Plans $5 Million Raise in 2027 19 hours ago

UduTech and AfriLabs Unlock AI Compute Access for African Startups 21 hours ago

ChatGPT Now Builds Playable Games Inside Your Chat With GPT-6 22 hours ago

Apps, Gadgets, Tools & Softwares

Spotify Tightens Family Plan Rules With New QR Code Verification

by Kingsley Okeke

October 22, 2026

Spotify is making it harder to share a Premium Family plan with people who live elsewhere. The company is asking...

Who Is Hack Sultan? The Growth Hacker Taking Over AltSchool Africa as Adewale Yusuf Steps Down as CEO

October 22, 2026

Egyptian Proptech Aqar Exit Secures $200,000 Funding, Plans $5 Million Raise in 2027

October 22, 2026

UduTech and AfriLabs Unlock AI Compute Access for African Startups

October 22, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Now Builds Playable Games Inside Your Chat With GPT-6

October 22, 2026

AltSchool Africa CEO leadership transition involving Adewale Yusuf and Akintunde Sultan

African Startup Ecosystem

AltSchool Africa CEO Adewale Yusuf Steps Down After Five Years, Akintunde Sultan Takes Over

October 22, 2026

Netflix Africa leadership executive Ben Amadasun reportedly laid off after seven years at the streaming company.

News

Netflix Lays Off Nigerian Executive Ben Amadasun After Seven Years, Names New Africa Content Lead

October 22, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

JPMorgan Deposits ₦50 Billion With CBN as Nigerian Banking Licence Bid Advances

October 22, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

Egypt’s MNT-Halan Completes EGP7.84 Billion IPO, Attracts EGP126 Billion in Investor Demand

October 22, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

Finserve Africa Managing Director Eva Ngigi-Sarwari Dies at 45

October 22, 2026

Fintech News

FinTech & Digital Money

JPMorgan Deposits ₦50 Billion With CBN as Nigerian Banking Licence Bid Advances

by Staff Writer

October 22, 2026

The deposit represents one of the final regulatory requirements in JPMorgan's application to establish a licensed merchant bank, according to...

FinTech & Digital Money

Egypt’s MNT-Halan Completes EGP7.84 Billion IPO, Attracts EGP126 Billion in Investor Demand

October 22, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

Finserve Africa Managing Director Eva Ngigi-Sarwari Dies at 45

October 22, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

South Africa to Let Fintechs and Telecom Operators Access Payment System Without Banks From 2027

October 19, 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...

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...

Artificial Intelligence

African Startup Ecosystem

Who Is Hack Sultan? The Growth Hacker Taking Over AltSchool Africa as Adewale Yusuf Steps Down as CEO

by Ifeanyi Abraham

October 22, 2026

There is something fascinating about Akintunde Sultan, better known across the Nigerian technology ecosystem as Hack Sultan. He understands something...