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Nigeria has built one of Africa’s largest fibre-optic networks, stretching more than 101,000 kilometres across its 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It has…

Samsung Electronics and Globacom are stepping up efforts to capture Nigeria’s fast-growing premium smartphone market with the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Galaxy…

Barely four months after cloud kitchen startup FoodCourt suspended operations, another Nigerian food-tech startup has shut its doors, deepening concerns over whether full-stack food delivery businesses…

Nigeria’s ambition to become Africa’s digital and creative economy powerhouse could be leaving behind one of its most gifted groups of innovators as thousands of autistic…

Two Chinese-backed fintech companies OPay and PalmPay have amassed about 85 million users in Nigeria, reshaping Africa’s retail banking landscape and forcing the country’s biggest lenders…

Nigeria’s banks have largely completed the localisation of their payment transaction data ahead of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) January 2027 deadline, but fintech companies,…

The Ukraine war and the Iran war converged on a single diplomatic stage in Washington on July 28. Following separate meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump…

Twenty-five years after the launch of Google Images transformed how people searched the internet, artificial intelligence is ushering in another shift that could reshape retail across…

Africa’s largest payments network, Onafriq, is building stablecoin infrastructure for banks, fintechs and mobile money operators as it seeks to remove slow and costly cross-border payments…

…Launches $1bn buyback Standard Chartered posted a record operating income of $11.6 billion for the six months ended June 30, while profit before tax rose nine…