Tag: Nigeria

Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, has found itself yet again facing fraud allegations. Kled, a 4-month-old startup that buys data ...

In a ruling that lands squarely in the age of mobile money and digital accounts, the High Court sitting at ...

Kenya is the largest importer of solar panels in the Eastern African (EA) region. In terms of capacity, the country ...

Nigerian authorities have accused four Kenyan nationals of participating in an online fraud scheme, leading to a warrant for their ...

The world is today running on the internet. Once referred to as the “dark continent” Africa has not been left ...

The past few weeks have been eventful in Nigeria's cryptocurrency space following the recent government crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges. The ...

IDEMIA Smart Identity, is working with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to improve the Nigeria’s national ID system. This ...

A number of countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Thursday due to damage to submarine fiber optic cables. A ...

alGROWithm has recently received funding from Digital Africa.The cash injection will be used to boost alGROWithm's Growth Talent Accelerator Program ...

Newly elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the Nigeria Data Protection Bill, 2023 into law. The Nigeria Data Protection ...

Digital identity verification provider Smile Identity has revealed 2022 Know Your Customer findings. The publication reportedly uses data from 50 ...

Digital loan apps have been growing over the last couple of years. However, over the last couple of months, the ...

Canadian fintech startup and credit assessment company, Periculum, has launched in Nigeria to tackle the challenge of domestic credit to ...

Twitter will soon resume access in Nigeria after it was banned in June last year. People in the West African ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a loan of $170 million to finance a digital ...

In the recently published Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index, cybersecurity corporation Surfshark ranked 110 countries based on their overall ...

Crypto fans likely remember the case when Nigeria’s Central Bank stopped the West African nation’s banks and financial institutions from ...

Twitter and Nigeria have had issues since early June when the platform deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial tweet. the Nigerian ...

A controversial police unit (SARS) in Nigeria was disbanded after nationwide and social media protest against its actions. The Special ...

Facebook has announced the launch of the Community Accelerator programme which will be available in three countries in sub Saharan Africa: Kenya, ...

Jumia is continuing with its optimization moves where they'll cease operations in Rwanda and shut down Jumia Travel in Nigeria

Nigeria's federal government is reported to be working on how to 'sanitise social media according to BusinessDayNg. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's Minister ...

Google Maps The Communications Boom of the last decade has changed how we communicate. It has also required governments to ...

The Nigerian government has suddenly felt the need to issue its people with an identity number that should be part ...

OLX, the online marketplace that gained prominence in Kenya, will now be bought by a leading online marketplace from Nigeria, Jiji. ...

In layman terms, Internet hijacking can simply be explained as the rerouting of internet traffic through a path that it ...

I have been following up some very interesting changes that have been happening to Nigeria's ruling party official verified twitter ...

If you're on Twitter, then you're familiar with "shooting your shot", well, people have been shooting shots but Nigerians (the ...

Truecaller has become one of the few apps that most smartphone users have installed and the app has users running ...

The World Economic forum (WEF) has released The Global Competitiveness Report for 2017-2018 and the report ranks different countries under ...

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai paid a visit to Nigeria a couple of days ago and he had an array of ...

GeoPoll did a rapid survey on African Millennials from five countries where they seeked to find out their affinity towards ...

Big Brother Nigeria is being shot in another countries and Nigerians are not too happy about the decision

Chinese device maker Xiaomi is back to selling its smartphones in Nigeria after a short hiatus. Xiaomi's temporary absence from ...

BlackBerry has been on the African continent for quite some time. At some point, at the height of its success, ...