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The African tech industry is gearing up for one of its most anticipated events of the year, Tech Unite Africa (T.U.A) 2025. Scheduled to take place on March 27, 2025, at the Muson Convention Center in Lagos. This isn’t just…
Orbicom, the company that helps MultiChoice send signals to your TV, is trying to hand over its licenses to Canal+, a French media giant. This is part of Canal+’s massive $3 billion plan to buy MultiChoice outright. The South African…
Quidax, a popular cryptocurrency exchange based in Nigeria, has started letting users trade cNGN, the country’s first regulated naira stablecoin. This makes Quidax the second exchange to offer cNGN for trading, following Busha, which added it last month. For those…
Nigeria’s National Identification Number (NIN) registrations reached a new high of 117.3 million in February 2025, marking a major leap in the country’s push for a modern digital identity system. This number jumped by over seven million people in just…
WhatsApp is getting ready to roll out some exciting new features that will make chatting and sharing stuff way easier. Imagine being able to post a bunch of photos in one neat collage, keep track of conversations without getting lost…
The African tech community is mourning the sudden loss of Adetunji Opayele, the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Nigerian social commerce startup Bumpa. Known to friends and colleagues as “TeeJay,” Opayele died in a car accident on March…
South Africa’s Tyme Bank has achieved a significant milestone by reaching 10.7 million customers in December 2024. Just three months earlier, in October, the digital bank had 10 million users, meaning it added 700,000 new customers in a short span.…
South Africa is facing pressure as it tries to increase its Value Added Tax (VAT). South Africa Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana last week announced that South Africa’s VAT will increase by half a percentage point in May 2025 and another…
Recently, Badili secured $400,000 in funding from Proparco, a French development agency. The investment is important for the firm and its mission to lower the cost and carbon footprint of smartphones in Africa. Badili’s approach is clever but simple. They…
Google has just made a massive R2.5 billion investment in South Africa’s tech future by launching its first-ever cloud computing project on the continent. The new Google Cloud region in Johannesburg isn’t just a fancy server farm – it’s a…
