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Ifetayo Agboola didn’t follow a corporate playbook. From sneaking out at age six to turn on his mother’s computer in Ilorin, Kwara State, North-central Nigeria, to installing campus Wi-Fi during NYSC…

FCA-regulated provider says same-day settlement and dual-market expertise can ease costs, delays and compliance headaches for businesses moving pounds in and out of Nigeria The United Kingdom remains…

South Africa can build successful tech startups. The bigger challenge is creating the capital, governance and market pathways that help tech scale-ups grow large enough to create their own exits.

The hurdles PiggyVest had to scale to pay out $2.3 billion to its customers since it started a decade ago.

The Federal Government has released eight months’ salary arrears owed to members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), averting an imminent strike by the university workers…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed a right-of-occupancy case involving an Abuja property measuring 2.8 hectares, faulting Triples G. Investment Limited’s legal team for attempting to “…

Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE is offering investors in East Africa access to nearly 20% of its initial public offering, with the regional offer expected to raise as much as $300.4 mi…

Equity funding into African tech startups has hit $1.5 billion from January to September of 2026, according to…

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has launched a digital postcode designed to give buildings across Nigeria a unique…

Monkey Post is a captivating browser game that revives the street football experience that many Nigerian kids cherished…

Property sales across major urban centers in Nigeria consistently experience a sharp surge in the fourth quarter (Q4), driven by a convergence of year-end savings deployment, festive diaspora inflows,…

For 24 years, Brila Media has been part of the way sports fans follow the game, argue about it, celebrate it and, increasingly, experience it.Founded on October 1, 2002, by sports broadcaster and medi…

In this interview with Nairametrics, Runsewe sets out the questions investors ask before backing Nigerian businesses, why a strong product alone may not be enough, and why founders need to prove somet…

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) was supposed to be the death of the technical barrier. We were…

The U.S. Consulate General in Lagos on October 6 celebrated a key milestone in the construction of the New Consulate Compound at Eko Atlantic City with a Topping Off Ceremony that marked the completio…

Retail investors traded ₦3.39 trillion of equities on the Nigerian Exchange in the first half of 2026, up 130.4 per cent from ₦1.47 trillion a year earlier, according to the exchange’s Domestic and Fo…

Ghana’s annual inflation rate rose for a second consecutive month to 5.2% in September, from 5% in August, as service price pressures strengthened.

Nigeria proved the demand for digital currency remittances before anyone built a proper product for it. What’s still broken is the last step: turning a stablecoin into naira or cedis in someone’s bank…

Banks cut their deposits with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) by N941.85 billion to N3.76 trillion on October 7, 2026, marking the largest single-day redu…

Lagos State Government is set to review private investment opportunities and private-sector participation in its electricity market in November as it assesses developments under the state’s 2024 elect…

As the global community celebrates Customer Service Week 2026, Nigeria’s leading Internet Service Provider Spectranet has reaffirmed its commitment to placing customers at the centre of its business o…

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have inaugurated a digital platform to track the implementation of Africa’s demographic dividend roadmap.

Saudi Arabia has introduced changes to its family visa rules, allowing eligible skilled expatriate workers to obtain entry visas for their family members alongside the processing of their own work vis…

Heirs Energies combined real-time monitoring with security upgrades and field investment to revive OML 17, an oil asset plagued by theft and ageing infrastructure. Its recovery shows how technology ca…