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The way to hyperlink your NIN and MTN line on-line 2024

The way to hyperlink your NIN and MTN line on-line 2024

MTN offices in different states in Nigeria have recently been experiencing a deluge of customer visits. This development is partly due to the recent text messages many MTN customers have received asking them to visit…

Scoop: Safaricom avoids penalty regardless of drop in high quality of service for third 12 months in a row

Scoop: Safaricom avoids penalty regardless of drop in high quality of service for third 12 months in a row

The ICT regulator will not fine Kenya’s largest telco as its overall QoS performance surpassed the 80% threshold.  Safaricom, Kenya’s leading telco, recorded a drop in its quality of service (QoS) for a third consecutive…

Digital lending Battleground: Entry Financial institution will get approval for standalone lending firm

Digital lending Battleground: Entry Financial institution will get approval for standalone lending firm

Access Corporation, the parent company of Nigeria’s biggest bank by assets, is launching Oxygen X, a consumer lending subsidiary, to provide digital lending solutions to a bigger market than its banking customers. While Access Corporation…

First assessment of the brand new Showmax: A giant leap ahead with content material & UI

First assessment of the brand new Showmax: A giant leap ahead with content material & UI

This week, Showmax shared the content slate for Showmax, its soon-to-be relaunched streaming service. TechCabal got early access to the streaming platform, which will officially launch on February 12. After a couple of days of…

Unique: Backed by $750k grant, Aboyeji and Koschitzky-Kimani are launching the YC of Africa

Unique: Backed by $750k grant, Aboyeji and Koschitzky-Kimani are launching the YC of Africa

Iyin Aboyeji, the founder of the VC firm Future Africa, and Mia von Koschitzky-Kimani, a general partner at the firm, are launching Accelerate Africa, an accelerator backed by a $750,000 USAID grant. Aboyeji and Koschitzky-Kimani,…

How Isaac Sesi is countering meals loss in rural farming communities

How Isaac Sesi is countering meals loss in rural farming communities

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Sefakor Fekpe via bird story agency . Isaac Sesi picks up a small bucket of maize to demonstrate the latest iteration of his moisture-measuring device. Powering the device…

Six months after posting $45 million loss, TymeBank studies a revenue

Six months after posting $45 million loss, TymeBank studies a revenue

South African neobank TymeBank has incredibly swung its fortunes around, reporting a profitable December 2023 six months after posting a R858 million (~$45 million) loss. Six months after posting a staggering R858 million (~$45 million)…

Vodafone inks $1.5 billion take care of Microsoft to develop digital funds for African SMEs

Vodafone inks $1.5 billion take care of Microsoft to develop digital funds for African SMEs

Vodafone, the third-largest mobile network operator in the United Kingdom, has signed a $1.5 billion deal with Microsoft to develop new digital and financial services for SMEs across Europe and Africa over the next decade. …

10 startups to compete for funding at Africa Tech Summit

10 startups to compete for funding at Africa Tech Summit

Ten African startups looking to raise between $500,000 to $15 million will pitch to investors and industry experts at the Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi on February 14th and 15th.  The event’s organisers received over…

Canza Finance raises $2.3m to deepen its cross-border commerce play

Canza Finance raises $2.3m to deepen its cross-border commerce play

Canza Finance, a Web3 neobank enabling cross-border payments for African startups, has closed a $2.3 million strategic round. The company will use the funding round to acquire licenses from diverse financial regulators across Africa and…

Common Atlantic acquires Actis in $12.5bn+ guess on sustainable infrastructure

Common Atlantic acquires Actis in $12.5bn+ guess on sustainable infrastructure

General Atlantic, the New York-based growth equity firm with $83 billion in assets under management (AUM), has agreed to acquire Actis, a London-based energy infrastructure investor with investments in Africa, to deepen its investment in…

Unique: ₦30 million inner fraud sours exit as Kippa scraps severance for laid-off employees

Unique: ₦30 million inner fraud sours exit as Kippa scraps severance for laid-off employees

Kippa, the Nigerian bookkeeping and finance startup backed by investors like Saison Capital and Horizone, lost ₦30 million to internal fraud connected to Kippa Pay, its agency banking product, two people with knowledge of the…