How Alex Otti Is Rebuilding Abia State: Roads, Health Centres, Digital Economy, and a N1 Trillion Budget
Three years ago, Abia State was a byword for abandoned projects, salary arrears, and institutional decay. Today, that narrative is…
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The Credit Promise That Hasn’t Landed: Why BNPL Is Struggling to Scale in West Africa
The pitch has always been compelling; millions of consumers across West Africa are underserved by traditional banks, disposable income is…
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Agentic AI in Africa: What It Means When AI Takes Action on Your Behalf
The first wave of AI tools taught machines to respond. The current wave is teaching them to act. Across the…
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Cyberattacks Hit Record High as Organisations Face 2,055 Attacks Weekly, Says Check Point Report
Africa Remains One of the World’s Most Targeted Regions in Shifting Criminal Tactics Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm…
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MyCard Tech Solutions Drives Social Impact by Equipping Lagos Youths with Practical AI Skills
On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the auditorium of RCCG The Faith City in Ogba, Lagos became a space of learning,…
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Banks Don’t Need More AI Ambition;They Need AI They Can Trust and Govern
Banks are no longer discussing artificial intelligence (AI) as a distant possibility. It is already moving into analytics, risk, fraud,…
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Africa’s Coding Bootcamp Industry Is Growing. Not All of It Is Worth Your Money
The demand for tech talent across Africa has never been more legible. Startups are scaling, banks are digitising, and governments…
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Women Rebuilding African Tech: Beyond the Diversity Headline
There is a particular exhaustion that comes with being celebrated and underfunded in the same breath. African women in tech…
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Who Is Leading in Africa’s Fastest-Growing Solar Market?
For years, the conversation about Africa’s energy future was framed around what the continent lacked: financing, infrastructure, and reliable policy….
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AI and Job Loss in Nigeria: Separating the Real Threat from the Noise
The anxiety is understandable. Generative AI tools have become genuinely capable in a short period of time; global headlines about…
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Why Business Leaders Need Stronger Strategic Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Every week, someone tells me that AI will run businesses in five years. My answer is always the same: a…
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The Side Hustle Economy Gets an Upgrade: How Nigerians Are Putting AI to Work
For many Nigerians, the side hustle is not optional. It is how rent gets paid, school fees get sorted, and…
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Google Gemini’s Avatar Tool Expands Access to Paid Subscribers
Google has begun a broader rollout of its AI-powered Avatar feature within the Gemini app, making the tool available to…
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How To Register Your Fintech Business in Nigeria
Nigeria remains the most active fintech market on the African continent. From payment infrastructure players like Flutterwave and Paystack to…
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Innovation Without Inclusion Is a Risk: What Africa Must Fix Now
Africa’s technology story is, by most measures, one of momentum. Startups are scaling. Mobile money has become infrastructure. AI policy…
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Digital Encode Warns of Rising Cybersecurity Breaches in Nigeria
Digital Encode Limited, a leading information security and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisory firm, has issued an urgent cybersecurity…
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AVEVA Spotlights Industrial Intelligence and Digital Twins at AVEVA Day Nigeria 2026
AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, will host the first edition of AVEVA Day Nigeria, on 11 June 2026 at…
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Ekele E. James: The Engineer Who Turned His Laptop into a Free Lab for Africa’s Next DevOps Generation
There is a moment that almost every aspiring DevOps engineer in Africa knows well. You have been watching tutorials, reading…
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Fidelity Bank Sees Technology as a Strategic Enabler of Efficiency, Growth
Dr. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank Plc, has described technology not as an abstract…
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Africa’s Payment Rails Are Being Rebuilt, and the Stakes Are High
For decades, moving money across African borders was an exercise in friction. A trader in Lagos settling an invoice with…
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African AI Startups Worth Watching Right Now
There is a version of Africa’s AI story that gets told mostly in superlatives in a continent leapfrogging, a generation…
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ViaBTC Launches “Proof of Decade” Campaign to Celebrate 10th Anniversary
ViaBTC Group, a leading global blockchain infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of its 10th-anniversary campaign, marking a major milestone…
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Africa’s Quiet Financial Revolution: How AI and Blockchain Are Reshaping Who Gets Served
For decades, the story of banking in Africa has been one of absence. The branches are too far away. Documentation…
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Women in Tech: Africa’s Most Undervalued Growth Engine for Innovation and Economic Development
Africa has the highest share of women STEM graduates in the world. That fact alone should have reshaped its technology…
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How Nigeria Taxes Tech Companies: A Guide to the Rules Shaping the Digital Economy
For years, global technology giants operated in Nigeria’s vast digital market with minimal tax accountability. A company could serve tens…
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Cybersecurity Budgeting for Startups: What African Founders Keep Getting Wrong
There is a version of this story that ends with a fintech startup quietly folding. Not because of bad product-market…
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African AI Startups Can Now Apply for Free Cybersecurity Training Under the Cyber4Africa Programme
African AI startups now have a free, structured pathway to strengthen their cybersecurity foundations, as applications open for the Cyber4Africa…
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How Enugu State is using GovTech to fix its housing and land administration
The ongoing transformation at Enugu State Housing Development Corporation (ESHDC) is gradually positioning the corporation as one of the strongest examples of…
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Africa-EU Space Partnership Programme Opens Applications for Earth Observation Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs working on Earth Observation solutions for Africa now have a fresh opportunity to scale their work. The AESPP Business…
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AI and the Creative Economy: How African Artists and Innovators Can Thrive
Africa’s creative sector, spanning music, film, fashion, and digital art, is expanding at a pace that is difficult to ignore….
