The Distributed Bet: How Remote-First Startups Are Reshaping Africa’s Tech Landscape
For much of the past decade, Africa’s startup conversation centred on hubs in Lagos, Nairobi, Cape Town, and Accra. The…
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PAFON 3.0 Announces Jameelah Sharrieff-Ayedun as Keynote Speaker
The Vice President of the Governing Council of the Fintech Association of Nigeria, Dr. Jameelah Sharrieff-Ayedun, is set to deliver…
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Dash Microfinance Bank Strengthens Digital Offering with New Mobile App
Dash Microfinance Bank Limited, one of the fastest-growing financial institutions in Nigeria, has announced the launch of its digital banking…
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Nigeria’s Internet Penetration: More Connected Than Ever, Yet Millions Remain Offline
Nigeria has more internet subscribers today than at any point in its history. As of early 2025, 107 million Nigerians…
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Favour Chukwuedo: From Feature Phones to AI-Powered Inclusion, the Next Frontier of Nigerian EdTech
When Favour Chukwuedo talks about education in Nigeria, he doesn’t start with smartphones, platforms, or silicon. He starts with a…
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How to Build a Data-Driven Strategy for Innovation and Business Growth
For most of the past decade, the dominant advice circulating in African startup and enterprise circles has been a variation…
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Open Banking in Nigeria: What to Expect as the Framework Moves Toward Reality
Nigeria is on the verge of a structural change in how its financial system shares and uses data. For most…
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Why Africa’s Microfinance Sector Can No Longer Afford to Stay Analogue
For decades, microfinance across Africa operated on a model built around trust, proximity, and paperwork. Loan officers visited markets. Group…
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AfDB Channels €7.5 Million into Breega’s Africa Seed Fund to Fill an Early-Stage Capital Gap
The African Development Bank Group has approved a €7.5 million (approximately $8.6 million) commitment to the Breega Africa Seed I…
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Data-Driven Governance in Africa: Balancing AI Innovation, Public Trust, and Accountability
Across the continent, artificial intelligence is reshaping public administration, policing, and social services. The infrastructure is advancing. The oversight is…
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Africa’s AI Moment Has Arrived, But the Continent’s Future Depends on What Happens Next
We spent Q1 2026 tracking how artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, startups, governments, and workforces across the African continent. Today,…
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Digital Encode Backs PAFON 3.0 as Adewale Obadare Prepares Keynote on Cybersecurity & Trust
Digital Encode Limited has emerged the lead sponsor of the upcoming third edition of the forum (PAFON 3.0), the organisers…
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Kaspersky Uncovers SparkCat Malware That Bypasses App Store and Google Play Security
Kaspersky SparkCat has identified a new variant of the SparkCat Trojan in the App Store and in Google Play —…
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Cascador Opens 2026 ScaleUp Applications for Africa’s Growth-Stage Founders
Cascador, a Lagos-based founder development organisation, is accepting applications for its 2026 ScaleUp programme — a 12-week initiative targeting growth-stage…
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Google Chrome Adds Vertical Tabs and Full-Page Reading Mode in Latest Desktop Update
Google has begun rolling out two new desktop features for Chrome that address a persistent frustration among heavy browser users:…
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Data-Driven Governance: How Africa Can Power a $1 Trillion Digital Economy
African governments are building data frameworks at speed, but the gap between strategy and execution remains wide. Whether the continent…
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How ShopCart.ng Is Bringing Order and Trust to Nigeria’s Campus Marketplace
Every Nigerian university student knows the drill. You need a textbook, a phone charger, or a second-hand pair of sneakers….
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When the Ground Shifts: How Nigerian Startups Are Learning to Survive Economic Turbulence
Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem has, over the past two years, undergone something close to a stress test; one it did…
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Nigeria’s Digital Economy Is Moving From Promise to Pressure Test
For years, Nigeria’s digital economy existed largely as a projection, a number on a slide, a line in a policy…
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Who’s Funding Africa? A Deep Dive into Q1 2026 Startup Investments
The numbers coming out of Africa’s startup ecosystem in the first three months of 2026 tell a story that is…
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Africa’s AI Reckoning: Who Gets Left Behind When the Machines Come for the Jobs?
The continent’s workforce is young, growing, and increasingly exposed to automation. The question is no longer whether AI will reshape…
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How Hackers Hijack Your SIM Card, and Why Africa Has the Most to Lose
Your phone number is no longer just a way to receive calls. For most people across Africa, it is the…
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Why Nigerian Networks Are Always Congested, And What It Will Take to Fix Them
Pick up a phone anywhere in Lagos on a Monday morning, and the experience is familiar: a WhatsApp voice note…
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Beyond the Big Four: How Francophone African Startups Are Quietly Reshaping the Continent’s Tech Map
For most of the past decade, conversations about African tech innovation started and ended in four cities: Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo,…
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Madica Drops Free Fundraising Guidebook to Help African Founders Navigate Pre-Seed Raises
Raising your first round as an African startup founder is hard — especially when you don’t have the right networks,…
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DTH-Lab Opens Applications for 2026 Digital Health Research Fellowship
A global research fellowship programme focused on digital health and young people is accepting applications for its 2026 cohort, with…
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How to Earn Passive Income from Idle Crypto: Complete Guide
Holding crypto for the long term is common. But leaving assets idle in a wallet for weeks or months often…
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FINCA Ventures Opens Applications for Third Annual $100,000 Prize Competition Targeting African Startups
FINCA Ventures, the impact investing arm of FINCA International, is accepting applications for its 2026 Prize Competition — a grant…
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Trust Woven Into the Infrastructure: How Onyedikachi Hope Amaechi-Okorie Is Redefining Safety and Ethics in Open Source Communities
The Often-Unseen Work That Keeps Open Source Alive Open-source software is frequently praised for its innovation and efficiency, but far…
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Africa Prize 2026: Sixteen Engineers From Across the Continent Including Two Nigerians Compete for £85,000 in Innovation Funding
The Royal Academy of Engineering has named its 2026 shortlist for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, selecting 16 early-stage…
