Month: February 2022
841 posts
How Nigerians Are Making NFTs Work For Them.
NFTs have become a big deal, and Africa has joined in the fun. From art and music to…
February 28, 2022
Millions in Bitcoin pouring into Ukraine from donors
Cryptocurrency analysts say at least $13.7m (£10.2m) has so far been donated to the Ukrainian war effort through…
February 28, 2022
Elon Musk activates Starlink to help keep Ukraine’s internet up and running
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine’s internet was sent staggering. Georgia Tech’s Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project, which…
February 28, 2022
Funded Nigerian Health Start-Up Takes On Digital Pharma.
Remedial Health, a Nigerian health startup, has announced $1 million in pre-seed funding to help digitise pharmacies and…
February 28, 2022
What Ubermoto Means For Nigeria.
It is now a month since giant ride-hailing service Uber launched a motorbike on-demand service in Nigeria. Known…
February 28, 2022
EU To Invest $927 Million In Nigeria’s Digital Economy.
The European Union has been identified as Nigeria’s single-largest trading partner. Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications and the Digital…
February 28, 2022
Nigeria’s Jiji Acquires Ghana’s Tonaton.
iji has officially become the biggest marketplace for classifieds in Africa after this acquisition. Nigerian e-commerce platform Jiji…
February 28, 2022
Nigeria’s EdTech Start-Up Teesas Secures $1.6 Million Pre-Seed Funding.
This is the third edtech start-up in Nigeria to glean funding. Another Nigerian edtech startup, Teesas, just successfully…
February 28, 2022
MTN Uganda Partners With TerraPay To Drive Global Money Transfers.
TerraPay has partnered with MTN Group through MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited to facilitate international digital money transfers.…
February 28, 2022
CBK Challenges Safaricom To Develop Lipa na MPESA to Receive Payments From Other Wallets.
M-PESA’s reach has also been fought by competing products. T-Kash and Airtel Money have basically 1 percent of…
February 28, 2022