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Ibukun Abolarinwa, the point of service (PoS) agent in front of my house at Ojodu Berger, knows my UBA Verve card by heart. He knows that any transaction I make with my card on his MoniePoint terminal will eventually fail. Without a word, he reaches for another one from his small rainbow of PoS machines—OPay

Nigeria’s telecommunications operators have suffered over 19,000 fibre cuts between January and August 2025, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The incidents, coupled with widespread equipment theft and site vandalism, have caused prolonged network outages, service disruptions, and significant revenue losses across the sector. Speaking at a business roundtable on broadband investment and infrastructure

In 2016, Lagos announced an ambitious plan to become a “smart city” — a digital hub where residents could access public WiFi in parks, transport terminals, and government buildings. A partnership with Dubai Holdings was meant to lay the foundation for this transformation, with free hotspots at locations such as Ikeja City Mall, Tafawa Balewa

Diacente Group, a Ugandan company that develops green industrial zones, has partnered with US-based Global Settlement Network (GSN) on a $5.5 billion plan to build a national digital infrastructure that links Uganda’s farms, mines, power projects, and factories. The project also includes a pilot of Uganda’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital shilling

Crypto in the African continent is either one of two extremes: a get-rich-quick scheme or complex technology. But for true enthusiasts like Moore Dagogo-Hart, crypto can be the path to financial freedom. After a journey that took him from building games in his hostel room at the University of Lagos to an internship at Goldman