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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pan-African climate venture fund Catalyst Fund has hit the second close of its debut fund, securing $30 million in total commitments as it nears its target. The fund is doubling down on backing ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all financial institutions and payment operators to store and manage payment transaction data generated within Nigeria on local servers, giving the ...

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Seventeen Nigerian entrepreneurs have been included in Africa’s Business Heroes 2026 (ABH) Top 100, making Nigeria jointly the top country alongside Egypt and Kenya with the most representatives in ...

A few days ago, global comic sensation Trevor Noah set Nigerian social media talking after he claimed that e-hailing drivers in Nigeria once gamed a promotional model introduced by the ride-hailing ...

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More than four in five Nigerians want the government to regulate children’s access to social media, according to a new survey, and most of them want the minimum age set higher than the global standard ...

PayPal has frozen funds and restricted access to an unknown number of Kenyan accounts after tightening its anti-money laundering and compliance checks, leaving freelancers, online sellers, startups, ...