When investors are most unsure, they reach for assets that retain their value during market turmoil. For institutional and individual investors in Africa, including Nigeria, gold has been the

South Africa’s Competition Tribunal has approved Lesaka Technologies’ acquisition of Bank Zero for R1.1 billion ($63.8 million). The approval gives Lesaka direct control of Zero Research, the

Starlink rival Amazon Leo has launched a waitlist for many countries, including Nigeria, to collect details of would-be early users of its satellite Internet service when it eventually rolls

A new partnership between Singapore-based payments giant Thunes and MoMo PSB, the fintech arm of MTN Nigeria, is bringing instant cross-border payments to one of Africa’s largest mobile walle

Olayemi Cardoso, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has disclosed that 16 lenders have met the revised recapitalisation requirements, and 27 are raising capital. He revealed this

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You know what’s wild? While everyone’s talking about the next big thing in fintech, there are engineers quietly building the backbone of Africa’s financial future. And honestly? Most of them

When Nigerians talk about the stress of converting crypto to Naira, the complaints are always the same: “Some platforms take 30 minutes to credit me.” “P2P is too risky.” “I just want my mone

The stablecoin market has suffered its steepest monthly contraction since the collapse of Terra’s Luna and UST in 2022. Data from DeFiLlama shows at least $6 billion wiped from total stableco

On November 25, Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, stated that decentralized finance (DeFi) has already reached 30% of its way to widespread acceptance and may be fully adopted globally

When Paystack fired co-founder Ezra Olubi in late November over allegations of sexual misconduct exposed in resurfaced explicit tweets from over a decade ago, the Nigerian tech community erup

The Federal Ministry of Education has launched a nationwide program called Inspire Live(s) to offer real-time online classes for students throughout the country. This platform provides live l

The Federal Government has disclosed that Google, LinkedIn and TikTok removed over 28 million Nigerian accounts in 2024 amid efforts to tackle online fraud, impersonation and harmful content

Itohowo Udofia wants to make paying for things in Nigeria feel as simple as tapping your phone on the London Underground. That single idea sits at the heart of DingPay and explains why the yo

After a year in which privacy coins came back to the center of the cycle, part of the capital has started moving out of traditional names such as Monero and Zcash and into solutions built dir

According to the latest data by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), only 3% of the internet subscriber population in Nigeria, a little over 4 million users, use the ultra-fast 5G ne

The most valuable asset we own today is not stored in a safe, a vault, or guarded behind physical locks. It has no tangible form. It cannot be seen or touched. It is our identity, the sum of

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has retained the monetary policy rate (interest rate) at 27%. This comes amid its effort to maintain inflation and stabilise the foreign exchange market. Acc

The U.S. Department of State is providing Zipline with $150 million to expand its autonomous drone delivery network throughout Africa. This funding will be allocated based on a pay-for-perfor

On November 23, 2025, former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar (@atiku), on X, criticised the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for appointing Xpress Payments Solutions Limited (XPSL

M-KOPA Kenya, the Kenyan arm of the Pan-African fintech company, announced that it has unlocked over $1.6 billion (KES 207 billion) in credit and served 4.8 million customers traditionally ex