Piggyvest has been named on CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 list for the third consecutive year, becoming the only African company recognised in the Wealth Technology category alongside ...

Jack Dorsey has never been shy about wanting to dismantle the platforms he thinks have too much power over how people work, talk and transact. He walked away from the company he co-founded, Twitter, ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has introduced a mandatory Communications Equipment Distributor (CED) Licence for all companies that import and wholesale communications equipment such as ...

Last week, Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye sat in the front row at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture show in Paris, right next to Cardi B, and Nigerian timelines have not recovered. If you ...

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Before OPay became one of Africa’s largest fintechs with nearly 50 million users, it was a company wondering whether it would survive its first year. That is the honest account Dotun Adekunle, OPay’s ...

Every public relations professional knows the feeling of having to explain what they actually do. And for many women in the profession, that conversation usually starts with the same question: “So, ...

Despite recent increases in connectivity, the presence of telecom towers and smartphone adoption in many rural communities across Nigeria remains limited. A recent industry report revealed that ...

Amazon Leo, Amazon’s satellite internet service, is nearing its official launch in South Africa after securing a partnership deal with Herotel, the local company that will serve as its distributor.

Nine years ago, Binance didn’t exist, and fewer than 6 million people on Earth owned any cryptocurrency at all. This week, the exchange marked its ninth birthday, claiming a user base larger than the ...

The Nigerian telecoms industry has suffered more than 150,000 fibre cut incidents across April and May 2026, the highest number of such cuts on record. The figures reveal a continued struggle to ...

There is a particular kind of grief that comes from knowing that a loved one didn’t make it, not from a lack of medicine or doctors, but because nobody could find the right hospital with the necessary ...