OPay’s Wall Street debut lasted a day. The Nigerian fintech priced its NYSE IPO at $19 a share on Thursday, raising about
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Flutterwave is moving from payments into banking. Here is the plan, the licence it holds and the markets it targets next.
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Google Wallet and Google Pay are live in Nigeria. Here are the four banks supported, what you can do with it, and
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Aries Media Ventures Fund I backs Aktivate, HustleSasa and Book Mahali. Who is behind the new African media-tech fund and what it
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On paper, Ife Omai is AllAccess’s Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer. In person, she’ll tell you she’s the mother of the brand,
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COSATU says cheap Chinese apps could cost South Africa 34,000 jobs by 2030. Nigeria already bans okrika, and the bend-down boutique is
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For seven years, if you wanted an African story on Netflix, one Nigerian was near the top of the chain. As of
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Nigerian startups raised $635 million in the first nine months of 2026. That’s 2.6 times the $247 million raised over the same
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Scammers are still paying Facebook to show Nigerians deepfake videos of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Peter Obi, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and other public figures
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In August, three deals did most of the work for African startups: Moove, a mobility fintech raised $250 million, Jumia raised $50
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Moove, the vehicle financing company founded in Lagos in 2020, is shutting down its operations in Nigeria. On its way out, it
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For almost a month, TikTok has barely worked in Kaduna, Kano, Kebbi and Sokoto. Videos freeze, feeds refuse to refresh and uploads
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Terrahex, a company building modular high-performance computing infrastructure in frontier energy markets, has received its second shipment of ASICs at its US
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Twenty-five years ago, a foreign company walked into a country that barely had a functioning phone network and built one from nothing.
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Today, Google Play launched its first Indie Games Fund, committing $1 million to support rising, innovative game studios across 32 countries in
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Dating in Lagos, Abuja, or Port Harcourt is basically an extreme sport. Between the unpredictable traffic, the pressure to maintain a certain
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Twenty years, four missed deadlines, billions of naira, a Chinese satellite programme that quietly collapsed in rural villages, and one administration that
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Flutterwave has closed a new funding round, this time a Series E, pegging Africa’s most valuable fintech at $3.25 billion. The investor
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Google today shared new data highlighting how people across Nigeria are turning to Search and AI tools to master the skills they
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With the advent of the internet and social media, humans seem to be closer-knit than ever before. From our phones and computers,
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