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1 Africa Tech Alliance Forum Set to Return for Sixth Edition on November 13

2 GrowthX: Digital Sovereignty Goes Beyond Data Storage, Stakeholders Say

3 Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: The Complicated Truth About African Tech Talent Migration

4 TiLAwards 2026 Honours Media and Brand Personalities Advancing Nigeria’s Digital Economy

5 Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026: Africa’s Innovation Community Gathers in Lagos to Shape the Future in the Age of AI

Africa Tech Alliance Forum

Africa Tech Alliance Forum Set to Return for Sixth Edition on November 13

October 5, 2026

Digital Sovereignty

GrowthX: Digital Sovereignty Goes Beyond Data Storage, Stakeholders Say

October 5, 2026

Electric vehicles

Electric Vehicles in Africa: Infrastructure, Affordability, and Progress

October 5, 2026

talent migration

Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: The Complicated Truth About African Tech Talent Migration

October 4, 2026

e-waste

E-Waste in Africa: The Dark Side of Our Technology Consumption

October 3, 2026

TiLAwards 2026

TiLAwards 2026 Honours Media and Brand Personalities Advancing Nigeria’s Digital Economy

October 3, 2026

Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026

Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026: Africa’s Innovation Community Gathers in Lagos to Shape the Future in the Age of AI

October 2, 2026

Joshua Adewolu

Joshua Adewolu: “Nothing Can Take the Place of Human Interaction”

October 2, 2026

WhatsApp

WhatsApp Introduces New Parental Controls to Help Parents Guide Teens

October 2, 2026

Digital Payment

CBN Data Localisation Directive Will Test Nigeria’s Digital Payment Infrastructure, Hakeem Adeniji-Adele Says

October 1, 2026

Kaspersky

Nearly One in Five Retailers Suffer Permanent Data Loss From Cyberattacks, Kaspersky Finds

October 1, 2026

Anambra

Anambra Launches Digital Gateway to Unify Government Services, Open Data and Citizen Engagement

October 1, 2026

Africa Tech Alliance Forum

Africa Tech Alliance Forum Set to Return for Sixth Edition on November 13

Digital Sovereignty

GrowthX: Digital Sovereignty Goes Beyond Data Storage, Stakeholders Say

Electric vehicles

Electric Vehicles in Africa: Infrastructure, Affordability, and Progress

talent migration

Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: The Complicated Truth About African Tech Talent Migration

e-waste

E-Waste in Africa: The Dark Side of Our Technology Consumption

TiLAwards 2026

TiLAwards 2026 Honours Media and Brand Personalities Advancing Nigeria’s Digital Economy

Africa Tech Alliance Forum

Africa Tech Alliance Forum Set to Return for Sixth Edition on November 13

Digital Sovereignty

GrowthX: Digital Sovereignty Goes Beyond Data Storage, Stakeholders Say

talent migration

Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: The Complicated Truth About African Tech Talent Migration

TiLAwards 2026

TiLAwards 2026 Honours Media and Brand Personalities Advancing Nigeria’s Digital Economy

Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026

Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026: Africa’s Innovation Community Gathers in Lagos to Shape the Future in the Age of AI

Digital Payment

CBN Data Localisation Directive Will Test Nigeria’s Digital Payment Infrastructure, Hakeem Adeniji-Adele Says

Anambra

Anambra Launches Digital Gateway to Unify Government Services, Open Data and Citizen Engagement

payments data localisation GrowthX

Stakeholders Call for Phased Approach to Payments Data Localisation

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

Joshua Adewolu

Joshua Adewolu: “Nothing Can Take the Place of Human Interaction”

Obinna Osuji, Co-founder and CEO of Medismarts

Medismarts Founder Obinna Osuji on Building the Digital Backbone of African Healthcare

Ali Sagiru

From Childhood Games to Guarding Africa’s Digital Frontlines: Inside Ali Sagiru’s NUR Sentinel AI

FractionalFair

What If Your Spare Hour Was Worth as Much as Cash? Inside FractionalFair’s Bet on Time as Currency

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

Kaspersky

Nearly One in Five Retailers Suffer Permanent Data Loss From Cyberattacks, Kaspersky Finds

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

WhatsApp

WhatsApp Introduces New Parental Controls to Help Parents Guide Teens

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

Robotics

Robotics in African Manufacturing: Where the Continent Stands and Where It Is Heading

Africa’s Frontier Firms: Turning AI Ambition Into Business Advantage

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

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