Why the Digital Skills Gap in African Governments Is Now a National Security Issue
African governments have spent the past decade moving identity records, tax collection, treasury operations, and public services onto digital systems….
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MTN Foundation Opens Phase 8 of ICT and Business Skills Training for Women Entrepreneurs
The MTN Foundation has opened applications for the eighth phase of its ICT and Business Skills Training programme. This edition…
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How African Developers Are Contributing to Global Open Source Projects
For years, the story of software in Africa was told as a story of consumption. Developers downloaded the frameworks, libraries,…
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Adeoye Abodunrin to Lead GrowthX 2026 Keynote on Nigeria’s Digital Payments Future
Futurist and cybersecurity expert David Adeoye Abodunrin has been unveiled as a keynote speaker for GrowthX by Techeconomy 2026, taking place…
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Anthropic Merges Chat and Cowork Into a Single Claude Experience, Adds Docs and Slides
Anthropic has removed the split between its two main Claude interfaces. Starting September 16, 2026, Claude Cowork and standard Claude…
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AI Fluency Is Not Data Competence, PBT Group Warns
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is giving data professionals faster ways to write code, generate queries, prepare documentation, and work through technical…
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Your Docs Are Lying to Your AI Assistant. This Dubai-Based Startup Wants to Fix That.
Every developer has hit the same wall: an AI coding assistant confidently suggests a method that was deprecated two years…
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Africa’s Green Data Centre Opportunity: Solar-Powered Server Farms
Africa’s data centre industry is growing at a pace that would have seemed unlikely a decade ago, and it is…
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Spectrum Allocation Politics: How Governments Shape Telecom Competition
A mobile network cannot exist without airwaves, and governments, not markets, decide who gets to use them. That single fact…
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Clarity is Priceless… Who Buys What They Don’t Understand?
When founders build something remarkable that doesn’t get the anticipated traction, they often blame the market, the economy, timing and…
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At 17, He’s Helping Lagos Motorists Find Fuel Before They Waste a Trip
Olisa Odukwe was 11 when his family moved from Lagos to Dubai. Six years later, in his final year of…
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PalmPay’s NightGuard Reinforces its ‘PalmPay Dey for You’ Promise with Added Night-Time Protection
In Nigeria’s evolving digital ?nancial landscape, convenience and security must go hand in hand. While digital banking gives users quick…
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ESET Strengthens Cybersecurity Awareness at Lagos State Civil Service Commission Career Week 2026
ESET Nigeria joined the Lagos State Civil Service Commission Career Week 2026 to advance the conversation around cybersecurity, digital transformation…
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Africa Must Shape the AI Economy, Not Just Consume It
Somewhere in Nairobi, a young woman spends her day labelling images and tagging text so that a chatbot in San…
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Driving Africa’s Digital Sovereignty, The Imperative of Local Cloud and Resilient Infrastructure
Nigeria West Africa’s digital transformation stands at a pivotal crossroads. Nigeria and the broader region are experiencing considerable upward growth…
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“The Technology Is Not the Implementation”: Bisola Fasanya on Building Voice AI That Actually Works
Bisola Fasanya is a London-based Voice AI Implementation Specialist and the founder of Atel Q, a SaaS platform that gives…
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The Digital Divide Within Cities: How Urban Inequality Shapes Tech Access in Africa
Most conversations about Africa’s digital divide default to a familiar map: connected cities on one side, disconnected villages on the…
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EdTech for Out-of-School Youth: Reaching the Unreached
Nigeria’s education numbers have a way of losing their shock value through repetition. Say “18.3 million out-of-school children” often enough…
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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
Tech leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers converge as opening day centres attention on the innovation and cross-border collaboration powering Türkiye’s…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold8 Now Available
What if your next smartphone upgrade could come with more than just a new phone? With the Samsung Galaxy Z…
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Community is King in the Land of Influencer Marketing
A social media personality has 2 million passive followers, while the other has 50K followers who actively listen to her views, comment on…
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August Cyber Threats Rise as Ransomware Nearly Doubles and GenAI Data Exposure Becomes a New Enterprise Risk
Check Point Research reveals a 22% year-on-year increase in global cyber attacks and a rise in phishing activity. Attacks on…
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How MENXTT Technology NG is Restoring Trust, Warranty, and Cybersecurity to Nigeria’s Consumer Tech Market
In a retail tech ecosystem often defined by aggressive haggling and uncertain product histories, local startup MENXTT Technology NG is…
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PalmPay Named Leadership Fintech Company of the Year 2026, Reinforces Commitment to Secure Banking
PalmPay, a leading digital banking platform committed to financial inclusion through secure and reliable digital banking services, has been honored…
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5 Ways WhatsApp Business helps you grow
For many small businesses, growth starts with returning customers, referrals and recommendations. But eventually, every business reaches a point where…
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Marketing Makes Awareness as Recall Requires Branding
Although communications is a discipline where clarity is currency, conflation of marketing and branding is one misnomer that plagues business…
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GrowthX by Techeconomy: Coker, Ehize, Durosawo, Others Confirmed as Data Localisation Tops Discussion
A strong line-up of technology, financial services, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity and fintech leaders has been confirmed to speak at the…
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Cold Chain Technology in Africa: Solving the Food Waste Problem
Drive through most Nigerian farming communities during harvest season, and you will see it before anyone tells you about it:…
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Africa’s Pension Tech Gap: Why Retirement Savings Remain Largely Offline
Nigeria’s pension industry likes to talk in trillions these days. Assets under the Contributory Pension Scheme crossed N31 trillion in…
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Saviynt Appoints Kamel Heus as Vice President of Sales for the Middle East and Africa
…Cybersecurity veteran to drive regional growth, strengthen partner ecosystem and advance identity security across MEA Saviynt, a leading provider of…
