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Inside APC’s 2027 Manifesto: What Tinubu is promising the Nigerian tech community
Selling a second-term vision on the back of painful macroeconomic therapy is the hardest pitch in politics. When…
How CBN’s 2026 POS policy overhaul is straining financial inclusion in Nigeria
For half a decade, the defining visual of Nigerian financial inclusion was a plastic table and chair under…
Stipends vs skills: Years later, can we say 3MTT was a better replacement for N-Power?
For nearly a decade, two distinct philosophies have governed how the Nigerian government wants to defuse the country’s…
Beyond ngCERT’s PHP2Shell social media warning: What Nigerian businesses and citizens must do to survive the October cyber wave
When a catastrophic flaw in the internet’s foundational plumbing threatens 70% of the world’s websites, a sovereign government…
Nigeria’s secret settlement with Meta shows a data protection regime marked by a glaring double standard
In February 2025, Nigeria’s data watchdog looked ready to draw a line in the sand across African tech…
The 2026 MPI Report: 113.3 million Nigerians are now too poor for your tech product
Nigerian tech founders often sell the country’s dream with a single, seductive metric: a population of over 200…
Tinubu’s 180-day Digital Free Zone ultimatum: A lifeline or Greek gift for the Nigerian tech ecosystem?
For the better part of a decade, the unspoken prerequisite for building a successful Nigerian technology startup was…
Understanding Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE: its power, policy gaps and way forward
The Nigerian government’s vision to cover the nation with 90,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable under Project BRIDGE…
12 of the 16 Nigerian govt websites hosting gambling content remain live – Technext findings
Despite outrage by citizens, gambling and betting content is still active on the websites of 12 Nigerian federal…
‘What happens in this city sets the direction’: Hamzat’s bid to make Lagos Africa’s innovation capital at GITEX Nigeria
Abuja is where national technology policies are drafted and debated. Lagos is where they either scale or die.…
