Africa’s Innovation Frontier Global News2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonMay 20, 2025 Oluwatobi Oyinlola Sets Guinness World Record with Smallest GPS Tracker On April 27, 2025, Nigerian-born inventor Oluwatobi Oyinlola made history by creating the smallest GPS tracking device prototype officially…
HealthTech Logistics Tech3 Min Read Faith AmonimoonMay 20, 2025 A New Era for NIPOST: How Tola Odeyemi Is Rewiring Nigeria’s Postal and Logistics Future The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is no longer just a mail carrier. Under the leadership of Postmaster General and CEO, Tola Odeyemi, the…
Global News2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonMay 15, 2025 Airbnb’s New App Now Lets You Book Local Services and Experiences Near You Airbnb is stepping beyond its roots as a home-rental platform. With its 2025 Summer Release, the company has become a one-stop platform for…
African Startup Ecosystem FinTech3 Min Read Faith AmonimoonMay 12, 2025 Verto Wins $1M Milken-Motsepe Grand Prize for Transforming Cross-Border Payments in Africa At the 2025 Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, a global financial technology firm Verto was awarded the $1 million Grand Prize…
Africa’s Innovation Frontier2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonApril 30, 2025 Moniepoint, OmniRetail, Paga, Flutterwave, & Lemfi Make This Year’s List of 2025 Endeavour Outliers Endeavor, the global community for high-impact entrepreneurs, has announced its 2025 Endeavour Outliers, spotlighting the fastest-growing,…
FinTech2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonApril 30, 2025 After Serving Over 5 Million Nigerians, Bankly Gets Acquired by C-One Ventures Nigerian fintech company Bankly has been acquired by C-One Ventures, an investment firm focused on technology and financial services in…
E-Commerce3 Min Read Faith AmonimoonApril 29, 2025 OmniRetail Raises $20M Series A to Expand B2B E-commerce in Africa OmniRetail, a startup working to transform informal retail in Africa, has secured $20 million in a Series A equity funding round. Led by…
Ed-Tech2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonApril 29, 2025 Miva Open University Launches New Lagos Study Centre to Empower Students Miva Open University will open its first Lagos Study Centre, taking a major step toward transforming higher education in Nigeria. Located at…
Cybersecurity2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonApril 28, 2025 MTN Cyber Breach: Customers’ Data Exposed, Urgent Warning Against Sharing PINs, Passwords, OTPs via Calls, SMS, or Email MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile network operator, has confirmed a cyberattack that exposed some customers’ personal information. Although…
Cybersecurity2 Min Read Faith AmonimoonApril 28, 2025 Nigerian Government Alerts on Cyber-Slavery Targeting Youths for Online Crime The Federal Government has sounded the alarm over the growing menace of cyber-slavery across parts of West Africa, warning that young…