Tag: Nigeria
Airtel Africa cuts debt, lowers costs through share buyback from Citigroup
Airtel Africa has bought back 8.6 million ordinary shares from Citigroup Global Markets Limited as part of a share buyback plan that began in...
Starlink terminals are falling into the wrong hands
Spacex's Starlink touts its high-speed internet as “available almost anywhere on Earth”.
In the real world, its reach extends to countries where Elon Musk’s satellite-enabled...
Airtel Africa’s data center project to create over 1000 jobs in...
Telecommunications service provider, Airtel Africa, has said that its NXTra data center project in Nigeria is poised to provide jobs for over 1000 Nigerians.
The...
Two workers of Binance arrested in Nigeria
The Financial Times has reported the arrest of two Binance executives in Nigeria this week.
Both executives flew to Nigeria last week following a ban...
Nigeria govt slaps $10 billion fine on Binance
The Nigerian government is demanding at least $10 billion as retribution from Binance amid crackdown on the crypto exchange platform in desperate moves to...
Opera MiniPay Achieves Over 1 Million User Landmark in Africa
Opera, in partnership with Celo and Mento Labs, is thrilled to announce a significant milestone: surpassing 1 million users of the MiniPay wallet in...
Nigeria in talks with Starlink to create jobs for citizens
The Nigerian government has reportedly initiated discussions with Elon Musk's Starlink on setting up programs that will create jobs in Nigeria through local maintenance...
Google, GoDadday sued for $150 million in Nigeria
Global tech giant Google and GoDaddy.com have been sued by a Nigerian called Chianugo Peter for $150 million.
The lawsuit revolves around the shutdown of...
Nigerian tech sector ministerial nominee probed over his past Tweets
Nigeria’s tech ecosystem received a boost when Bosun Tijani, founder and CEO of CcHub, a long-standing accelerator, was nominated as the country’s new minister of...
Flutterwave, OPay push Lagos startup ecosystem value to $8 billion, biggest...
A new report by policy and advisory research firm Startup Genome has placed Lagos as the regional leader in the Sub-Saharan startup ecosystem in...