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1 Why the Digital Skills Gap in African Governments Is Now a National Security Issue

2 MTN Foundation Opens Phase 8 of ICT and Business Skills Training for Women Entrepreneurs

3 Adeoye Abodunrin to Lead GrowthX 2026 Keynote on Nigeria’s Digital Payments Future

4 Spectrum Allocation Politics: How Governments Shape Telecom Competition

5 PalmPay’s NightGuard Reinforces its ‘PalmPay Dey for You’ Promise with Added Night-Time Protection

African Governments

Why the Digital Skills Gap in African Governments Is Now a National Security Issue

September 20, 2026

MTN Foundation

MTN Foundation Opens Phase 8 of ICT and Business Skills Training for Women Entrepreneurs

September 19, 2026

African Developers

How African Developers Are Contributing to Global Open Source Projects

September 19, 2026

Adeoye Abodunrin -GrowthX by Techeconomy

Adeoye Abodunrin to Lead GrowthX 2026 Keynote on Nigeria’s Digital Payments Future

September 17, 2026

Anthropic

Anthropic Merges Chat and Cowork Into a Single Claude Experience, Adds Docs and Slides

September 17, 2026

AI fluency is not data competence

AI Fluency Is Not Data Competence, PBT Group Warns

September 17, 2026

Your Docs Are Lying to Your AI Assistant. This Dubai-Based Startup Wants to Fix That.

September 17, 2026

Africa's data centre

Africa’s Green Data Centre Opportunity: Solar-Powered Server Farms

September 17, 2026

Spectrum Allocation Politics

Spectrum Allocation Politics: How Governments Shape Telecom Competition

September 16, 2026

Clarity

Clarity is Priceless… Who Buys What They Don’t Understand?

September 16, 2026

fuel naija

At 17, He’s Helping Lagos Motorists Find Fuel Before They Waste a Trip

September 16, 2026

PalmPay

PalmPay’s NightGuard Reinforces its ‘PalmPay Dey for You’ Promise with Added Night-Time Protection

September 15, 2026

African Governments

Why the Digital Skills Gap in African Governments Is Now a National Security Issue

MTN Foundation

MTN Foundation Opens Phase 8 of ICT and Business Skills Training for Women Entrepreneurs

African Developers

How African Developers Are Contributing to Global Open Source Projects

Adeoye Abodunrin -GrowthX by Techeconomy

Adeoye Abodunrin to Lead GrowthX 2026 Keynote on Nigeria’s Digital Payments Future

Anthropic

Anthropic Merges Chat and Cowork Into a Single Claude Experience, Adds Docs and Slides

AI fluency is not data competence

AI Fluency Is Not Data Competence, PBT Group Warns

African Governments

Why the Digital Skills Gap in African Governments Is Now a National Security Issue

MTN Foundation

MTN Foundation Opens Phase 8 of ICT and Business Skills Training for Women Entrepreneurs

Adeoye Abodunrin -GrowthX by Techeconomy

Adeoye Abodunrin to Lead GrowthX 2026 Keynote on Nigeria’s Digital Payments Future

Spectrum Allocation Politics

Spectrum Allocation Politics: How Governments Shape Telecom Competition

PalmPay

PalmPay’s NightGuard Reinforces its ‘PalmPay Dey for You’ Promise with Added Night-Time Protection

Out-of-School, edtech

EdTech for Out-of-School Youth: Reaching the Unreached

GITEX Ai Türkiye 2026

GITEX Ai Türkiye debuts in Istanbul as Türkiye’s largest tech and AI launch event spotlights nation’s path toward becoming a global AI epicentre

MENXTT Technology NG

How MENXTT Technology NG is Restoring Trust, Warranty, and Cybersecurity to Nigeria’s Consumer Tech Market

Clarity

Clarity is Priceless… Who Buys What They Don’t Understand?

influencer marketing

Community is King in the Land of Influencer Marketing

Marketing

Marketing Makes Awareness as Recall Requires Branding

Power your hustle with WhatsApp Business

WhatsApp spotlights Nigerian small businesses in ‘Power your hustle with WhatsApp Business’ campaign

diaspora funding

Diaspora Angels: How African Professionals Abroad Are Funding Back Home

uber

Uber Just Left Nigeria. Here’s What 12 Years of Its Presence Taught the Market

procurement fraud

SAS, FACTS Consulting urge organisations to detect procurement fraud before losses escalate

dollar strength

What Dollar Strength Cycle mean for Traders

Your Docs Are Lying to Your AI Assistant. This Dubai-Based Startup Wants to Fix That.

fuel naija

At 17, He’s Helping Lagos Motorists Find Fuel Before They Waste a Trip

Bisola Fasanya

“The Technology Is Not the Implementation”: Bisola Fasanya on Building Voice AI That Actually Works

Magnus Emenuga and MEmbedded TechLab

From a Muddy Street in Aba to Building Nigeria’s First Homegrown Phone: The Magnus Emenuga Story

Comply54, Oluwajuwon Steven Omotayo

The Compliance Layer AI Agent Frameworks Forgot to Build: The Story of Comply54

Ekele E. James

Ekele E. James: The Engineer Who Turned His Laptop into a Free Lab for Africa’s Next DevOps Generation

Josiah Allen

Josiah Allen : The Student Founder Building StudyCrew and Redefining the Future of Learning

Idah Abdulwahab Dominion

From No Light to Building Communities Worth Millions – Idah Abdulwahab Story

ESET and Lagos State Govt

ESET Strengthens Cybersecurity Awareness at Lagos State Civil Service Commission Career Week 2026

Cyber Threats

August Cyber Threats Rise as Ransomware Nearly Doubles and GenAI Data Exposure Becomes a New Enterprise Risk

WhatsApp

WhatsApp Begins Testing On-Device Scam Alert Feature, Starting With Android Beta Users

Kaspersky

Kaspersky empowered Cleopatra Hospitals Group to detect severe cyber incidents 75% faster

TrueConf videoconferencing servers

Organisations face new attacks via unpatched TrueConf videoconferencing servers, Kaspersky warns

ESET Threat Report

ESET Threat Report: Kenyan organisations are being attacked by the basics

Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware Attacks Double Year over Year as July 2026 Cyber Threat Volumes Continue to Rise Worldwide

Microsoft Leads Q2 2026 Brand Phishing as ChatGPT Emerges as a New Phishing Target

Samsung Galaxy Z

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold8 Now Available

WhatsApp

WhatsApp Begins Testing On-Device Scam Alert Feature, Starting With Android Beta Users

WhatsApp

New Account Security Features for WhatsApp

Meta AI

Meta AI Just Got a To-Do List — And It’s Ticking Off Your Tasks

Meta AI

Meta Introduces AI Alerts to Notify Parents of Teens Showing Signs of Distress

Meta Muse Image

Meta Launches Muse Image, Its First In-House AI Image Generator, as Competition in Visual AI Intensifies

WhatsApp_username

WhatsApp is Letting You Reserve Your Username

Google Gemini

Google Gemini’s Avatar Tool Expands Access to Paid Subscribers

Anthropic

Anthropic Merges Chat and Cowork Into a Single Claude Experience, Adds Docs and Slides

AI fluency is not data competence

AI Fluency Is Not Data Competence, PBT Group Warns

Your Docs Are Lying to Your AI Assistant. This Dubai-Based Startup Wants to Fix That.

Africa's AI Boom

Human Time Return: Why Africa’s AI Boom Should Be Measured by the Life It Gives Back, Not Just the Work It Automates

AI events

The Work After the Room: What Practical AI Events Need to Create Real Value

Voice AI

Voice AI Is Finally Learning to Speak Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili and Zulu

CleanTech Funding

CleanTech Funding in Africa: Who Is Actually Writing the Cheques

solar africa

Who Is Leading in Africa’s Fastest-Growing Solar Market?

Waste-to-Wonder

Green Economy

7-Year-Old Eco-Hero Launches “Waste-to-Wonder” Campaign in South Africa

GreenTech in Africa

Green Economy

GreenTech in Africa: Renewable Energy Solutions Reshaping the Continent