There is a specific kind of embarrassment that comes with sitting at a restaurant with your friends and quietly calculating whether you can afford what is on the menu. Sharon Ariyo Adeoye, known to ...

The air inside the University of Lagos was different on May 9. There was the usual hum of a well-organised Hult Prize Nigeria event, logistics staff moving with purpose, judges reviewing notes, ...

Chukwuyenum Opone has long been drawn to the kind of engineering problems that only reveal themselves at scale, the ones centered on keeping interactive systems stable, responsive, and capable of ...

Electric mobility company Spiro has closed a $50 million funding round led by Afreximbank, with Nithio and the Africa Go Green Fund joining as new investors. The company will use the funds to build ...

Nigeria’s tech and financial sector has continued to record notable results across the stock trading, where the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) remains a core mirror for investors’ decisions and market ...

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My Family Cinema (MFC), a popular video streaming platform known for piracy, has shut down after facing copyright issues. The platform’s forced exit is linked to a recent crackdown on piracy networks ...

Spanish delivery platform Glovo has announced plans to invest an additional Sh10 billion, approximately $77 million, in Kenya by 2030, further solidifying the country’s status as one of its most ...

Float, a South African fintech startup, has received $2.6 million (R46 million) in Invenfin and SAAD Investment Holdings-co-led fresh funding to accelerate its expansion across the country and prepare ...

Payments giant, Paga, has announced that it processed ₦17 trillion across 169 million transactions in 2025, a sharp jump from previous years. The company’s CEO, Tayo Oviosu, shared the figures on X, ...

TikTok is launching a paid subscription option in the United Kingdom, allowing users to pay £3.99 per month to access the platform without advertisements. Starting Monday, TikTok began notifying UK ...

Apple has topped the global smartphone shipment rankings in 2025, achieving a 20% market share and 10% year-on-year (YoY) growth, and ranking first among the top five brands. According to a report by ...