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Unleash the power of premium features on a budget with TECNO SPARK 30C

Unleash the power of premium features on a budget with TECNO SPARK 30C

Chris Maurice of Yellow Card explains why taxing crypto won’t stop Nigerians from trading

What3Words, Flutterwave, Bounce News Shine at the 2017 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards

What3Words, Flutterwave, Bounce News Shine at AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2017

Telecoms in Nigeria

Data boom, slow 5G and rising costs: review of Nigeria’s telecom industry data in H1 2026

15 hours ago

This Week’s

Leading Conversations

Optasia's Bassim Haidar

Fact check: Did Optasia make $3 billion from Nigeria? Here is what its audited accounts actually show

byOmoleye Omoruyi

How NectarFi’s Stephanie Okeke is building the infrastructure layer that crypto forgot

byOmoleye Omoruyi

Shopaza launch signals Payaza’s bet on infrastructure-led e-commerce growth in Africa

byBlessed Frank

Investigation: How 69,000 daily stolen phones are used to drain bank accounts of Nigerians

byOmoleye Omoruyi

Freshly Pressed

MTN Shortcodes

News

MTN Nigeria migrates FibreX short codes to 5-digit format in line with NCC directive

2 hours ago

Rack LGS2 Data Centre

Explainer

A comprehensive list of the 28 data centres in Nigeria (operational and under construction)

4 hours ago

Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO after 15 years, succeeded by hardware chief John Ternus

News

Apple raises MacBook and iPad prices as AI memory chip shortage worsens

Mubarak Bankole

19 hours ago

WhatsApp is not charging you a mandatory fee — But there's a subscription you should know about

News
Review

WhatsApp is not charging users a mandatory fee, but there’s a new subscription to know about

20 hours ago

Why Malawi's Chichewa AI push is part of a continent-wide race to end the language divide

Review

Why Malawi’s Chichewa AI push is part of a continent-wide race to end the language divide

21 hours ago

Paystack celebrates 10 years, unveils new parent company The Stack Group

News

New Paystack payment tool will allow users buy airtime and send money through ChatGPT and Claude AI

Mubarak Bankole

23 hours ago

OPay’s Next Frontier: Innovation, Inclusion, and the Responsibility of Scale

Opinion

OPay’s Next Frontier: Innovation, Inclusion, and the Responsibility of Scale

Guest Contributor

1 day ago

Nigeria mastered digital payments. Why hasn't it mastered credit?

Review

Why Nigeria’s digital payments boom hasn’t produced a credit card economy

Mubarak Bankole

2 days ago

African fintech startup Daya raises $2.4 million to simplify cross-border payments

News

Daya raises $2.4 million to simplify cross-border payments for African businesses

Mubarak Bankole

2 days ago

Why the Five Eyes' urgent AI warning demands immediate boardroom action

Review

Why the Five Eyes’ urgent AI warning demands immediate boardroom action

2 days ago

An Internet subscriber

Review

How 5G connections in Sub-Saharan Africa are expected to grow 11x to 370 million by 2031

2 days ago

Africa’s largest solar mini-grid operator, WeLight secures $31 million to expand power access in Nigeria

News

Africa’s largest solar mini-grid operator WeLight secures $31m to expand power access in Nigeria

Mubarak Bankole

2 days ago

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Sponsored

Carbon Economy can create a multi-billion-dollar engine for job creation in Nigeria - Ibiyode

3 minute read

Carbon Economy can create a multi-billion-dollar engine for job creation in Nigeria – Ibiyode

Harrison Obiefule

5 minute read

Harrison Obiefule: Architecting Solana’s expansion in Africa

Nigeria Revenue Service Authorised Upperlink as the System Integrator for Nigeria's e-Invoicing platform

3 minute read

Nigeria Revenue Service Authorised Upperlink as the System Integrator for Nigeria’s e-Invoicing platform

Digital PayExpo 2026 to Convene Africa’s Most Influential Payments Leaders in Lagos

1 minute read

Digital PayExpo 2026 to Convene Africa’s Most Influential Payments Leaders in Lagos

Nigerian Cybersecurity Analyst Advocates Stronger Digital Protection Amid Rising Meta Account Bans

3 minute read

Nigerian Cybersecurity Analyst Advocates Stronger Digital Protection Amid Rising Meta Account Bans

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Crypto Updates

Crypto off-ramping: Here are 8 crypto startups enabling Nigerians to easily spend crypto

Here are 8 startups enabling Nigerians to spend crypto easily

IMF warns Nigeria’s $59bn stablecoin surge risks digital dollarisation and weakens naira control

The digital dollar trap: Why African currency-backed stablecoins like cNGN won’t stand a chance in a USD-pegged world

The $30bn Bitcoin wipeout: Inside the Q1 earnings bloodbath for MicroStrategy and American Bitcoin

The $30bn Bitcoin wipeout: Inside the Q1 losses for MicroStrategy and American Bitcoin

Standard Chartered insists Bitcoin will close the year above $100K despite dipping over 50% from ATH

What is driving Bitcoin’s $80,000 rally and what happens next?

Nigeria’s Web3 funding doubles in 2025 as stablecoin usage hits a global high with $48.2M daily transfers

Nigeria’s Web3 funding doubles in 2025 as stablecoin usage hits a global high with $48.2m daily transfers

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Women In Tech

women in tech

7 women in tech who are inspiring the next generation for growth

Mainasara in tech

Tech Trivia with Mainasara Adetutu, front-end Developer at African Alliance

chioma in tech

Tech Trivia with Chioma Oko, Product Manager at Semicolon

Gloria Chimelu in tech

Tech Trivia with Gloria Chimelu, Crypto Writer at Investopedia

Jessica in tech

Tech Trivia with Jessica Tee Orika-Owunna, SaaS Content Marketing Specialist

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Interviews

Tomi-Davies (IMG - Tomi Davies)

The POEM framework: How Tomi Davies filters pitch potential in Africa tech funding

Padiplug: How Increase Isesele is renting powerbanks to Nigerians for ₦300 per hour

Padiplug is providing charging on demand to Nigerians with power bank rental

Crypto off-ramping: Here are 8 crypto startups enabling Nigerians to easily spend crypto

5 exits under 40: Iam Etefia’s secret to building 6-figure African startups

From founder to fixer: How Amanda Etuk is rethinking startup growth and sustainability in Nigeria

From founder to fixer: How Amanda Etuk of Cascador is rethinking startup growth

tech talent

“HR today is about driving performance and retaining the talent that moves the needle”- HumanManager’s Udo Ngele

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Finally, Ghana is set to legalise crypto

Google’s free AI Pro for African students

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