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MTN Nigeria has emerged as the dominant player in Nigeria’s fibre internet market, but its growing lead masks a bigger problem: fixed broadband remains a tiny p

At the recent September 9 auction, total investor demand reached ₦2.64 trillion ($1.99 billion). The Debt Management Office (DMO) ultimately allotted ₦1.05 tril

PayShap, South Africa’s instant-payment rail, has been available to bank customers since 2023.

The administration follows nearly three years of job cuts, financial pressure and multiple changes to Twiga’s business and corporate structure.

Flutterwave appears to have made an early decision. It does not need to issue the dominant stablecoin, own or integrate the dominant blockchain, or persuade bus

Ukachi Benita built Aquamanne, a fish-pond monitoring tool designed to track water conditions and alert farmers when something changed.

The core value proposition was simple: a small business with four, five, or ten employees should be able to run a professional phone network—complete with autom

At a Standard Bank roundtable in Johannesburg on Wednesday, three payments executives outlined how new regulations, richer payment data, and faster cross-border

Many conversations focus on what AI can do for students, teachers, and schools. For Africa, where access to quality education in remote areas remains a persiste

In today's edition: MTN Nigeria crosses 100 million subscribers || Uber says Kenya remains an important market || Terra secures $2 million mining contract || Ke

Since launching in January 2022, PAPSS says it currently connects 30 African countries, 24 central banks, about 200 financial institutions and more than 16 paym

The addition of more than 2.2 million subscribers was MTN’s strongest monthly growth so far this year and its biggest since November 2024.

The acquisition will occur in three stages over the next 18 months and will be funded through a combination of cash and equity, according to Pigee CEO Leroy Law

At 14, Dami Oyenekan watched a patient die at LASUTH, an experience that changed her dream of becoming a doctor and led her to healthtech.

dLocal Ghana can now provide local payment collections, merchant acquisitions, mobile-money acceptance, bank-transfer collections and local payouts.

Apple now has more than 2.5 billion active devices and operates more than 500 stores globally. None of those stores are in Africa.

South Africa will serve as an important test of whether the mobile-money model that worked in less banked markets can be adapted to a more mature financial syst

Mamor is still raising towards its R550 million ($34.375 million) target and says it will invest in South African technology companies that already have paying

Allawee is the second fintech brand Paystack has acquired and folded into its operations this year.

The rules are aimed at strengthening investor protection and reducing the risk that customers lose access to their assets when a digital asset company fails. Th

In today's edition: New wine, old wineskins || Terra Industries appoints ex-Palantir exec || Mozambique creates AI forum || JSE suspends tech firm Labat Africa

While Nigeria is actively fostering innovation in assistive technology, true digital inclusion requires addressing the systemic inaccessibility of existing gove

After its Cell C restructuring, Blu Label is looking to electricity as its next growth opportunity. Image Source: Techcentral

Sixteen years after leaving the bank he helped grow into one of Nigeria’s biggest financial institutions, Tony Elumelu has left United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)