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Risevest suspends senior executive after old bigotry tweets resurface
Nigerian investment platform Risevest has suspended a senior executive after old social media posts containing ethnic slurs directed…
SET Plc: How a lottery company declared ₦4.2 billion revenue, yet a ₦168 million loss
For every ₦100 of lottery revenue SET Plc collects, ₦92.50 immediately vanishes into costs before the company even pays a single administrative bill...
What Ghana’s ID card and digital wallet plan means for payments in Africa
Ghana’s National Identification Authority is in talks to add a digital wallet to the Ghana Card, the identification…
Fraudsters share playbooks, Nigeria’s fintechs do not; experts warn of losses
In December 2024, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided a network of online scam operators and…
95% of digital breaches are caused by human error- NITDA DG, Kashifu Inuwa
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Director-General, Kashifu Inuwa, said that 95% of all digital breaches are…
Nigeria’s power grid keeps collapsing every year. Can a new software fix what decades of neglect broke?
The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) marked its first anniversary on Wednesday with ambitious plans: IoT sensors, telemetry…
CBN debunks claims on Polaris Bank’s liquidation and purported sale
The Central Bank of Nigeria has publicly debunked information that Polaris Bank is undergoing a liquidation process, suggesting…
Google’s Hustle Academy pivots to ‘AI for everyone’ to power Africa’s digital future
For the past four years, Google’s Hustle Academy has been one of the quiet engines powering small businesses…
Rwanda launches first Kinyarwanda tech dictionary to boost digital literacy
The Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy has launched the first Kinyarwanda ICT terminological dictionary, featuring over 1,700 standardised technology…
World Bank approves $550M to expand Kenya’s fibre network by 1,270km in the Northern region
Kenya has secured $550 million in fresh World Bank funding to expand fibre optic infrastructure across its Northern…
