Cirquu opens AI business platform with $7 monthly subscriptions

Cirquu has opened its AI-powered business management platform to public sign-ups, offering African companies tools for…

Raenest wants users to earn from their money

Raenest, a Nigerian cross-border payments fintech, wants users to do more than receive money from abroad,…

Interswitch wants Nigerians to trust tap-to-pay

Interswitch, a Nigerian payments technology company, says consumer education is the biggest hurdle to making tap-to-pay…

Can you access AI without the internet? All that you need to know about ‘offline AI’

Switch off your data and wifi, then turn on your aeroplane mode, open an already installed…

Africa’s Creator Economy Needs Better Infrastructure to Grow

Africa’s creative industries have no shortage of talent or stories to tell. What they lack is…

Safaricom fires 118 staff for fraud even as incidents fall 82%

Safaricom dismissed 118 employees for fraud in the year to March, even as fraud incidents fell…

Gates Foundation challenges to Africa’s AI builders

Africa’s artificial intelligence developers should measure success by improvements in healthcare, education and incomes rather than…

How Magna Collective’s Investor Connection Drive matched 26 Nigerian startups with 16 investors

Magna Collective’s Investor Connection Drive brought founders and investors together in Lagos on 27 October, matching…

SEC urges startups to look beyond bank loans to crowdfunding, commercial papers

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has urged businesses and startups to explore crowdfunding, commercial papers…

‘Stubbornness is a business model in Africa’: OPay’s Dotun Adekunle on the road to its $4.4bn IPO

When a rumour that OPay would shut down began circulating online in September, the fintech initially…