The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has resumed full enforcement of its digital lending regulations after a Federal High Court dismissed a legal challenge against the ...

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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 ...

Before OPay became one of Africa’s largest fintechs with nearly 50 million users, it was a company wondering whether it would survive its first year. That is the honest account Dotun Adekunle, OPay’s ...

When you pay for suya with your card at 11 p.m. in Lagos and the POS machine chirps “Approved” within seconds, you probably think it’s just your bank doing its job. But behind the scenes, there’s an ...

Despite recent increases in connectivity, the presence of telecom towers and smartphone adoption in many rural communities across Nigeria remains limited. A recent industry report revealed that ...

Amazon Leo, Amazon’s satellite internet service, is nearing its official launch in South Africa after securing a partnership deal with Herotel, the local company that will serve as its distributor.

Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal has ruled that works generated by artificial intelligence cannot attract copyright protection or be registered as original creations ...

What if the next global voices shaping culture didn’t come from Hollywood or London but from Lagos, Nairobi and Cape Town? In 2026, African content creators are no longer just participating in global ...

Latest industry data show that about 83.2% of Nigerian phone users are now connected to the internet, underscoring how Nigerians are increasingly penetrating the digital space. This means that for ...

SpaceXAI and OpenAI, two of the AI industry’s most-watched labs, shipped competing frontier models within 24 hours of each other, turning a routine release week into a referendum on price, speed and ...

The Nigerian telecoms industry has suffered more than 150,000 fibre cut incidents across April and May 2026, the highest number of such cuts on record. The figures reveal a continued struggle to ...