3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (291+ words) My Life in Tech Lagos, Nigeria — 8 September, 2026 — G Elias, a leading full-service commercial law firm, today announced its partnership with the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) to host a Masterclass, themed “Startups & Their Legal Environment.” The event will hold…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (883+ words) Fido, an Accra-based fintech, has secured a $200,000 grant from the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to expand its digital lending, savings, and financial literacy products for women- and youth-led small businesses in Ghana. The programme is expected to help…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (270+ words) As Nigeria grapples with doctor shortages and overburdened hospitals, a quieter crisis drives worse outcomes for millions — fragmented records, broken continuity, and patients navigating a complex system entirely alone. Medbankr is built to fix that. LAGOS, Nigeria — 10th September, 2026 Nigeria has…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1010+ words) For four years, the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) has been building the plumbing for a more connected African economy. Since launching in January 2022, the payment network says it currently connects 30 African countries, 24 central banks, about 200 financial institutions and…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (970+ words) Africa’s construction sector is on the rise. According to research by Brookings, as of 2024, an estimated $812 billion worth of large construction projects were scheduled or underway across the continent, spanning housing, commercial real estate, healthcare infrastructure and transport projects. Africa’s…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1639+ words) For years, Sheriff Issaka kept running into the same problem while building language technology for Africa: there was not enough data. The data needed to train systems for African languages was scarce, and much of what was available was not…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (568+ words) HashLiquid brings supported exchange accounts, Web3 wallets, local payment methods and merchant liquidity into one marketplace—designed to make P2P access more connected and more accountable. HashLiquid is not building another isolated P2P order book. It is building an independent, exchange-connected marketplace where…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1065+ words) With Nigeria’s financial sector facing a January 1, 2027, deadline to comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s data-localisation rules, the country’s debate over data sovereignty is moving beyond a simple question of where servers are located. The practical questions are becoming…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (304+ words) ARC Ride, a Kenyan electric mobility startup, has raised $33.3 million in asset-backed debt and equity to expand its battery-swapping network and electric motorcycle fleet across Africa. The funding comes as African EV companies race to build the charging and battery-swapping…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (398+ words) Nigerian payment and logistics super app platform joins Temu’s courier network to strengthen e-commerce fulfilment for Nigerian buyers and businesses.Kwikpik, Nigeria’s smart payment wallet and logistics super app, has been approved as a last-mile courier partner on Temu, the…...