Nigeria will spend $6.1 million on seven consulting firms and five individual consultants to support the rollout of its national fibre expansion project, according to a World Bank procurement report released on March 17, 2026.  The engagements form part of the Building Resilient Digital Infrastructure for Growth (BRIDGE) Project, a $2 billion initiative aimed at

When Tosin Eniolorunda brought Dennis Ajalie into TeamApt as a senior business development officer in 2018, the company was still building software for financial institutions. TeamApt had, in Ajalie’s words, “two and a half products,” which were mostly focused on helping banks reconcile the messy reality of manual tracking.  The year Ajalie joined TeamApt, the

KOKO Networks’ United Kingdom carbon trading arm collapsed weeks after reporting a surge in revenue, as a regulatory setback in Kenya cut off access to a higher-value carbon market central to its business. Accounts for KOKO Networks (UK) Ltd, signed on  February 5, 2026, and seen by TechCabal, show turnover jumped to £39.8 million ($50.5

littlefish, the South African startup building financial infrastructure for small businesses, has raised a $9.5 million Series A round to scale its merchant operating system and expand across Africa. This raise adds to a growing pattern in Africa’s fintech ecosystem, where startups are choosing to build infrastructure for financial institutions rather than compete with them