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10 African Tech Startups Selected for the #Africa4Future Accelerator Programme
Airbus and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have announced the top 10 African tech startups that…
What to expect in South Africa’s FinTech sector in 2019
This guest post was written by Dominique Collett, a senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investments and the…
Few weeks to election, ICT Minister promises ICT park in Abuja amid disqualification to run in Oyo Guber poll
On February 16, Nigerians who are of voting age (18 and up) will be casting their votes in…
Apply: MEST Africa Challenge 2019 for Scale-ups (Win up to $5ok Equity Investment)
Calling on Africa’s leading scale-ups! Are you the founder of a technology startup currently operating in Ghana, Nigeria,…
Apply for the UNICEF Innovation Fund for Data Science & AI Startups (Up to $100k in Funding)
If you run a data science or artificial intelligence (AI) startup and are looking for funding, then the…
The unsurprising yet disappointing silence over DealDey exit
One of the shortcomings of the tech space in Nigeria and elsewhere that I still fail to understand…
In 2018, Nigerians paid N57 trillion electronically, mostly through ATM
Between January and September 2018, Nigerians performed transactions worth N56.85 trillion through electronic payment channels according to the…
Apply: African App Launchpad Initiative 2019 for Young African Startups
The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, announced the African App Launchpad initiative within the closing ceremony of…
MTN and CBN reach agreement, operator to pay over N19 billion
Just few hours to Christmas, telecoms giant, MTN, announced it has reached an agreement with the regulator of…
Wakanow Secures $40 Million Investment Fund from Carlyle Group
Nigeria’s online travel company, Wakanow, has closed an investment fund from the Carlyle Group – Carlyle Sub Saharan…