How Staking Can Turn Idle PoS Crypto Into a More Productive Long-Term Holding
As the digital asset market matures, more investors are looking beyond simple buy-and-hold strategies and asking how idle tokens can…
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Africa Doesn’t Have a Leadership Deficit. It Has a Leadership-Narrative Deficit
The most important investment an African leader can make in 2026 is in who gets to define them. There is…
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AWIEF Opens 2026 Pitch n Grow Competition, Spotlights African Deep-Tech Ventures Led by Wom
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has opened applications for Pitch n Grow 2026, its annual pitch competition…
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AvadaSchool: A Smarter Way for Schools in DRC to Manage School Fee Payments
Managing school fees is one of the most important administrative responsibilities for educational institutions. Yet for many schools, institutes, universities,…
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Dark AI Explained: How Cybercriminals Are Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence
A bank teller in another country once watched an elderly woman withdraw a large sum of cash, hands trembling, voice…
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Insurers Face Growing Fraud Risk from AI-Generated Images
Fake or altered photos depict evidence, from crash scenes to receipts, to support fraudulent claims. Insurance fraud, unfortunately, is inevitable. A…
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Africa’s Cybersecurity Laws Are Catching Up. But the Gap with Global Standards Is Still Real
The numbers are not reassuring. Two-thirds of INTERPOL’s African member countries now report that cyber-related crimes account for a medium-to-high…
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WhatsApp is Letting You Reserve Your Username
If you’ve ever hesitated before giving your phone number to a new acquaintance — a classmate, a neighbor, someone you…
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African Startup Failure Rates Are Rising, and Founders Are Being Honest About Why
Between January 2023 and June 2025, at least 33 startups across Africa shut down operations, with Nigeria accounting for nearly…
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How Technology and AI Can Accelerate Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa does not have a resources problem. It has a distribution problem, and technology is the fastest bridge we have…
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Africa Has Moved Past AI Adoption. Now Comes the Hard Part (A Special Report)
We spent the first half of 2026 tracking how AI agents are reshaping African infrastructure, capital, policy, and workforces. Today,…
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Starlink’s Real Impact in Rural Africa: What Three Years of Operation Actually Show
When Starlink switched on in Nigeria in January 2023, the pitch was simple: a dish, a clear view of the…
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The New Subsea Cable Race: Who Is Connecting Africa’s Coasts in 2026
Africa’s internet has always depended on a thin, vulnerable thread: the handful of fibre-optic cables lying on the seabed that…
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NITDA Leads Push for Responsible AI Adoption as Nigeria Moves from Policy to Progress
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has reaffirmed its commitment to establishing Nigeria as a frontrunner in Africa’s artificial…
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From fragmentation to integrated decision
The impact of market movements can be significant. A rate change can start with deposit pricing, change customer behaviour and…
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Why the UAE Is Betting Big on Nigeria When Others Hold Back
There is a familiar rhythm to the way the world talks about investing in Nigeria. Enthusiasm arrives in waves, conference…
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Funding Starts with Clarity: What Investors Really Look For
Most founders walk into investor conversations carrying one thing they shouldn’t: confusion. Not confusion about their product, but confusion about…
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Africa’s Data Centre Boom: Where the New Facilities Are Being Built
Africa’s digital infrastructure deficit has been well-documented for years. The continent accounts for less than 2% of the world’s co-location…
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Nigeria’s Data Protection Act Two Years In: From Paper Law to Enforcement Reality
When President Bola Tinubu signed the Nigeria Data Protection Act into law on June 12, 2023, the immediate response from…
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Meet the 10 Men Driving Africa’s Tech Revolution in 2026
A teenager in Lagos taps his phone to pay for jollof rice. A small-business owner in Cape Town swipes a…
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Open Banking in Nigeria: What the CBN Framework Means for Consumers
For more than a decade, Nigerian banks have held onto a kind of data nobody else could see: years of…
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The Fight Over Who Regulates African Fintechs: Central Banks vs Telcos
The question of who gets to govern mobile money in Africa is not purely academic. It shapes how millions of…
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Why African Startups Are Choosing Dubai Over London for Headquarters
For years, London held a near-automatic appeal for African founders seeking a Western headquarters. It offered proximity to European capital,…
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How Smart Brands in Nigeria Are Winning Attention and Market Share with RideAD
Today, every brand is fighting for the same thing: attention. But the reality is, people are seeing more ads than…
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From Bootcamp to Business: Anambra’s SID Graduates 400 Engineers, Disburses N80M to 80 Startups in Awka
In a banquet hall in Awka on Monday, Anambra State made its most concentrated statement yet about the kind of…
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SAS Study: Most SMBs Are Still in the Early Stages of AI Adoption
SMBs need practical solutions over hype to bridge the gap between AI readiness and reality. Nearly 70% of small and midsized businesses (SMBs)still remain in…
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Why the Best African Startups Start with Real Problems
There’s a particular kind of founder you meet in Lagos, Nairobi, or Accra who hasn’t read a single pitch deck…
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Nigerian Banks Are Deploying AI Against Fraud. Here’s How Far They’ve Come
Nigeria’s digital payments ecosystem has grown faster than almost anyone anticipated. The country processed nearly 11 billion instant payment transactions…
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Africa’s AI Talent Drain: The Continent Is Producing Engineers It Cannot Afford to Keep
There is a quiet irony sitting at the centre of Africa’s artificial intelligence ambitions. The continent is producing more machine…
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Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026 Set to Convene West Africa’s Brightest Minds to Shape the Future of Innovation
InnovationHub Africa, Africa’s foremost driver of technology and innovation, is proud to announce the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS) 11.0, the…
