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 ...

Anthropic’s Claude services are facing significant technical issues, causing widespread failures across the web platform, mobile and desktop apps, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and its API. On September ...

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 ...

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CoinEx, the global cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2017 as part of the ViaBTC Group, announced today that it will cease operations and begin an orderly wind-down. The company cited a prolonged ...

A 300-level International Studies student at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has built a mobile application to help Nigerian students better understand the student loan scheme run by the ...

Nigerian fintech company CreditChek has acquired Ugandan startup Algosys, marking its expansion into Uganda and boosting its efforts to create credit and lending systems across East Africa. The ...

Kenyan electric mobility company Arc Ride has successfully raised $33.3 million in funding, with Novastar Ventures and Norrsken22 leading the round. This investment will help the company expand its ...

Africa is rapidly accelerating its adoption of artificial intelligence, yet a quiet geopolitical battle is unfolding over where the physical brains of this revolution will reside. The continent faces ...