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KCB Bank Partners Craft Silicon to Advance Digital Payments and Simplify Faster Transactions Across Kenya
KCB Bank Kenya, in partnership with fintech firm Craft Silicon, has convened businesses and ecosystem partners to explore how payment systems can be made...
ZEBOX Joins Orange to Scale AI and Digital Infrastructure Solutions
Telecommunications group, Orange has signed a partnership with ZEBOX, the global innovation accelerator founded by the CMA CGM Group, in a move aimed at...
Kenya’s Innovate Now Expands Assistive Technology Accelerator, Placing Persons with Disabilities at Centre of Innovation
Innovate Now, a Kenya-based accelerator focused on assistive technologies, has unveiled its largest cohort to date, signalling a deepening commitment to building products around...
MacTay is Using VR to Transform Emergency Responses Across NigeriaÂ
More than 300 emergency service professionals in Lagos have been trained using virtual reality (VR) technology, marking a shift in how high-risk response skills...
2027 ELECTIONS: How Sen. Mohammed Onawo is bringing future-forward, tech-backed vision to governance in Nasarawa State
In Nasarawa State, Nigeria's Middle Belt, where agriculture is the backbone of the economy with the state capital, Lafia, having the potential to become...
Energy as Intelligence: How Greenleaf Africa is Rewiring Trust in Nigeria’s Solar Market
In Nigeria’s fast-growing but uneven solar market, a familiar pattern has quietly eroded confidence, systems are installed with high expectations, only for performance to...
Inside Hamilton’s Push to Build Digital Finance and Scale Dollar Stablecoins Across Africa
Hamilton Labs, a U.S.-based financial infrastructure provider, has secured an undisclosed investment from AXIAN Investment, the venture arm of pan-African conglomerate AXIAN Group, to...
LIRS Extends Tax Filing Deadline to April 14 — But Are Lagos Taxpayers Truly Prepared?
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has extended the deadline for filing individual annual income tax returns to April 14, 2026, offering taxpayers...
Cashi and IFC is Bringing Digital Finance and Mobile Payments to Underserved Communities in Chad
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a partnership with fintech company Cashi to expand digital payment...
How Ecobarter Is Making Nigeria’s Cities Cleaner and Greener By Using Digital Tools to Solve Waste Challenges
Nigeria’s urban population has grown steadily over the past decade, but its waste management systems have struggled to keep pace. Amid this environmental and operational...
Scale and Mastercard Partner to Simplify Card Issuance and Accelerate Digital Payments Across Africa
Scale, a South African card-issuing startup, has entered into a partnership with Mastercard aimed at simplifying how businesses launch and manage card products across...
Nigeria’s Fixr Technologies is Building Contractor-Led System to Fix Africa’s Broken Service Marketplace Model
When Ikechi Adolphus co-founded Fixr Technologies with Olamide Akangbe, the ambition was not to launch another tech startup chasing rapid valuations. Instead, the Lagos-based...
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