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NEWSFLASH

Raenest Exchange 2026 Brings Creators, Freelancers and Builders Together in Lagos 5 hours ago

MTN Nigeria Launches Y’ello Y’Fi to Help SMEs Turn Wi-Fi Into Sales 9 hours ago

NITDA Unveils Digital Literacy Dashboard to Track Nigeria’s Skills Drive 9 hours ago

Spiro Launches First 100 Electric Motorcycles in Ghana 1 day ago

World Bank Taps NVIDIA, Cassava Technologies to Expand Affordable AI Computing Across Africa 1 day ago

Event Radar Africa

Raenest Exchange 2026 Brings Creators, Freelancers and Builders Together in Lagos

by Kingsley Okeke

October 21, 2026

Raenest is holding the second edition of Raenest Exchange in Lagos today, Wednesday, October 21. The full-day event is built...

Artificial Intelligence

World Bank Taps NVIDIA, Cassava Technologies to Expand Affordable AI Computing Across Africa

October 20, 2026

African Startup Ecosystem

IFC Eyes $7.5 Million Investment in New $100 Million African Fintech Lending Fund

October 20, 2026

Kelvin Umechukwu named among Africa's Business Heroes 2026 Top 10 finalists

African Startup Ecosystem

Nigeria Has a Hero: Bumpa CEO Kelvin Umechukwu Emerges as One of Africa’s Top 10 Business Heroes for 2026

October 20, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence

Two Kenyan AI Startups Win $10,000 Combined in Meta AI Academy Pitchathon

October 20, 2026

Reports

inDrive Launches Keke Tricycle Service in Nigeria for Cheaper Short Trips

October 20, 2026

Opinions & Perspectives

AI Course Enrollments Surge Across Africa as Learners Bet on Future Skills in 2026

October 20, 2026

Fintech News

FinTech & Digital Money

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

by Staff Writer

October 19, 2026

The planned reform, announced by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) on October 16, 2026, would mark a major shift...

An image of a speaker at the Africa Blockchain festival

FinTech & Digital Money

Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 Brings Investors, Regulators and Startups Together in Nairobi

October 19, 2026

CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso discusses Nigeria-China payments and financial cooperation ahead of Beijing talks.

FinTech & Digital Money

CBN Moves to Make Nigeria-China Payments Easier as Cardoso Plans Beijing Talks

October 19, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

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

October 17, 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...