Lidya, a Nigerian lending startup, has shut down owing to severe financial distress. The company raised approximately $16.45 million between 2017 and 2021, including an $8.3 million pre-Serie

Just days after layer-1 blockchain Kadena announced it was winding down operations, decentralised exchange Bunni has become the latest casualty in the crypto winter. The DeFi platform confirm

Tinder, a popular dating app, has introduced a mandatory facial verification for new users on the platform. The feature, termed “Face Check”, is an attempt to curb the spread of fake profiles

Following the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s (FCCPC) new regulations on loan app registration and enforcement of a ₦100 million fine for non-compliance, the number o

Zoho Corporation is doubling down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. The global software company has announced the rollout of new agentic AI capabilities across its collaboration, cust

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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has revealed plans to roll out electric vehicles across 12 selected Nigerian campuses by November. The move is part of its intervention plans to al

Daniel Adeboye was 17, sitting in the corner of a dim Lagos cybercafé with an old monitor flickering in front of him. His code compiled. The logic was sound. But the feature he had spent two

Egyptian startup, Amenli, has emerged as the only African insurtech company in the Top 50 list of insurtech startups across the world. This is according to data crunched by the global startup

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By Oluwatosin Adelaja – Software Engineer and Technology Contributor As Africa’s digital economy matures, startups are evolving from experimental apps to mission-critical infrastructure. Mill

Meta has announced plans to cut around 600 jobs from its artificial intelligence division as part of a major internal restructuring. The decision was revealed in a memo sent to employees by t

Generative AI in Nigerian education is emerging at a time when the country faces one of the world’s deepest learning crises. A 2024 report estimates that more than 18.3 million children livin

MEST Africa has announced that twenty fintech startups have been named semi-finalists in the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) 2025. The startups will now be allowed to showcase their ideas that pr

Netflix has once again demonstrated its resilience in a recently turbulent streaming market, reporting robust third-quarter results that highlight its continued dominance in the global entert

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The threat of AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic content that impersonates a creator’s face or voice has become one of the most serious issues facing the digital world. In response, YouTube

MTN Nigeria has announced a planned network maintenance exercise that will temporarily disrupt telecommunications services across parts of Adamawa, Borno, and Kano States on Saturday, October

Key Points: Kadena halts business activities; KDA token falls 60%. Immediate cessation of operations was announced. Miners and community to maintain blockchain network. This significant event

Money Fellows, Africa’s leading fintech digital platform, has announced that it has surpassed 8 million users on its platform, with total transaction value on the platform exceeding more than

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has opened the student loan application portal for the 2025/2026 academic session. The process, scheduled to run from October 23, 2025, to January 3