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MTN Nigeria, the country’s largest telecom operator, is working to restore its Xtratime airtime lending service soon after Nigeria’s consumer protection regulator suspended the enforcement of new digital lending rules.  “The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has suspended the enforcement of DEON. To that extent, we will reinstate the service,” a company insider

Nigeria’s healthtech ecosystem added 65 startups between 2020 and 2025, according to the State of Healthtech in Nigeria 2026 report, curated by TechCabal Insights, Digital Health Nigeria, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative.  The figure represents more than half of the 103 startups launched in the 15 years before the pandemic, and reflects approximately 65%

John Eni-ibukun is an African Gospel and Afrobeats curator at Audiomack, one of the continent’s foremost music streaming platforms, where he thinks about how music travels, gets discovered, and lands with audiences in a fragmented digital world. Before that, he ran a digital press platform for artists.  Under the alias “June Sometimes,” he channels that

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Nala, the Tanzanian-founded fintech building stablecoin-powered cross-border payment rails, has secured up to $50 million in credit financing from private credit firm Liquidity as demand rises for faster business payments between emerging markets, Europe and the United States. According to a statement by Nala, the facility begins with an initial $25 million tranche and can

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When Zipline first entered Nigeria in 2022, the company’s operations looked like another ambitious health-tech pilot: drones delivering vaccines and medical supplies across a handful of underserved states.  Four years later, the company says it is preparing for something much bigger — a national logistics infrastructure play that could eventually reach half of Nigeria’s population.

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In cities like Lagos, Nigeria, and Nairobi, Kenya, delivery is not just moving food or products from one point to another. It is also navigating traffic snarl-ups that can take hours, some streets that digital maps still struggle to recognise, and consumers who demand convenience while living inside deeply informal economies. Dima Rasnovsky, who oversees