After a decade of serving as the executive director of AfriLabs, a network of 500 tech hubs across Africa, Anna Ekeledo stepped down in January and is now in the process of hiring her replacement. Whoever gets the role will have their work cut out for them. Since Ekeledo joined AfriLabs, it has grown to

Duplo, a Nigerian business-to-business payment platform that digitises payment flows, has secured both the Systems Integrator (SI) and Access Point Provider (APP) licences from the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), the country’s tax authority. The dual licences allow Duplo to help businesses generate NRS-compliant electronic invoices, automatically transmit them to the tax authority, and settle payments