MTN Nigeria’s half-year 2026 numbers read like a company finally exhaling after years of currency and cost pressure, but the details Chief Financial Officer Modupe Kadri offered in a recent interview complicate the headline figures more than they confirm ... See more
On the evening of Friday, September 6, 2024, a trader in Lagos checked her phone and saw an alert that ₦487,000 had entered her account. A client had been promising payment for weeks, so she did not question it. She paid her supplier, bought rice for the ... See more
In August 2025, operators at Uganda’s Electricity Transmission Company Limited watched their network monitoring screens freeze. A ransomware variant had compromised the systems governing the national power grid. Service was restored only through backup pr... See more
When Onafriq announced a partnership with Privy on July 29, 2026, to build “ regulated stablecoin infrastructure for B2Bs across Africa ,” it was not the company’s first such announcement this year. Conduit arrived in February , framed around institutiona... See more
In March 2025, Paystack, the Nigerian fintech giant acquired by Stripe for $200 million in 2020, made its first major leap into consumer payments with the launch of Zap, a mobile app built around a deliberately narrow premise: fast, clutter-free bank tran... See more
