When I first pitched the Keynote segment of PodFest Naija to the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, H.E. Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, he asked a couple of questions for clarity. Not long after, he said, “I ...

President Donald Trump hosted leading AI executives at the White House on 29 September 2026 and announced a short voluntary document (self-regulation pact) he called “almost like a constitution” and ...

When Web3Bridge, Africa’s premier blockchain academy, earlier today announced a shutdown of its flagship programme, it sent a ripple through the entire continent’s technology ecosystem. For seven ...

Odyssey Energy Solutions, a female-led startup, has raised $74M to build the financing rails powering Africa’s solar shift, one small business at a time. Al Mada Ventures invested in the round ...

Bain & Company’s recently released seventh Global Technology Report has handed the global artificial intelligence industry an invoice, and seventy per cent of it can only be paid with products nobody ...

Anthropic is asking public-market investors to value its five-year-old AI lab at more than $2 trillion, enough to eclipse SpaceX’s record June 2026 debut, while disclosing a $42 billion 2025 net loss, ...

For a long time, buying medicine in Nigeria has meant walking into a local chemist, taking whatever price is quoted without much room to compare, and having no reliable way to confirm that what you’re ...

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L R: Paul Ayoola Manager, Corporate Affairs and Communications, KPMG West Africa Nnamdi Obinwa Senior Manager, Tax, KPMG West Africa Ezinne Inyamah Sector Executive, Telecommunications, Media and ...

Nigeria’s fintech story has changed. A few years ago, the big question was whether Nigerians would trust digital payments enough to use them every day. Now, with billions of transactions moving ...

Amid intense competition to deliver better broadband services to Nigeria’s internet users, traditional internet service providers (ISPs) are shifting to fibre networks and wireless modes to deliver ...

The Amalgamated Union of App-based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON) has declared a mega protest in October that will see them shut down the Bolt and inDrive apps in Lagos. This is according to a ...