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PayJustNow CEO Craig Newborn discusses BNPL in Africa and hitting 1M users
People are suffering from credit issues and are dipping ever deeper into credit just to get through the month
One month after its launch, here’s why PayPal USD has failed to gain popularity
According to revelations from Onchain data. PayPal’s recently released stablecoin, PayPal USD, is facing challenges gaining traction. Per…
Nigeria lost N1.95b to POS fraud in one year: The ugly side of a cashless society?
Is the convenience of a cashless society worth the risks it poses?
2 years after El Salvador’s Bitcoin decision; a lesson for developing countries
It is now two years after El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin…
Nigeria must accelerate the adoption of renewable energy sources
Many newspaper articles, songs, and even roadside conversations have documented Nigeria’s checkered history of power outages. Last year,…
Only 0.02% of total cryptocurrency investors are millionaires – report
Cryptocurrency, at least until recently, has been largely viewed as a money-making machine, especially by outsiders. This is…
FG rakes in N1.1bn through rail transport as number of passengers hit 474,117 in Q2 2023
Nigeria generated a whooping N1.1 billion from passengers through rail transport in Q2 of 2023. This is according…
Less than 2 months after launch, 98.5% of Worldcoin token investors already at a loss
There is little or no genuine interest in the $WLD token. It is apparent that people who get their eyeballs scanned only did so after learning of the opportunity to get easy money
Crypto startups raised $819 million in August, a 53% year-on-year decline
This is an indication that the crypto space still has a long way to go, in order to match, or surpass the funding figures it attained during its boom
Global mobile internet users expected to hit 5.5 billion by 2030 – GSMA report
A document titled The Mobile Economy 2023 predicts that the world’s mobile internet users will reach 5.5 billion…
