On August 24th, MTN announced that it had begun its pilot test of 5G in Nigeria, cementing its status as the true telco leader in the country and generating significant buzz among tech enthusiasts. A week into the official announcement, the telco giant already has over 190 active 5G sites across the federation and is

Claudine Moore is a PR and communications expert with an impressive PR and communications career spanning Africa-focused start-ups, heritage brands, and African organizations in multiple international markets. A trip to Ghana in 2010 inspired her to use her PR experience to help African startups navigate marketing and media relations as well as shape public perceptions

By the age of 26, Lin Dejean Yun had built her first business and exited it. She sold her company, a digital identity security for Fintech companies, to the French multinational telecommunications corporation Orange. Then she became an investment banker who started investing in startups on the weekends as a leisure activity in 2008.  “I

UberEats South Africa has announced that it has paused deliveries in some parts of Soweto township in Johannesburg following multiple reports of “safety incidents” incurred by its courier partners. In an interview with News24, Uber Eats South Africa’s head of operations, Charles Mhango, stated that after engagement with affected courier partners, the company came to

Nigerian payment unicorn, Flutterwave, has secured a Switching and Processing Licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), according to a statement seen by TechCabal. This high profile licence will allow it to facilitate transactions between financial service providers, merchants, customers and other stakeholders without intermediaries.  The licence will also allow it to offer new

According to the recent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report by the National Bureau of Statistics, the information and communications technology (ICT) sector contributed 18.44% to Nigeria’s GDP in the second quarter of 2022. The sector saw a 6.55% growth rate from Q1 2022. The contribution of the oil sector, which used to dominate the country’s

Image Source: All On All On, a Shell-funded independent impact investing firm, has announced that it has invested £1 million in Mobile Power Limited, to increase the growth of its Pay-per-use battery sharing platform in Nigeria. Mobile Power provides clean and affordable energy to the off-grid market across sub-Saharan Africa through its innovative and affordable

Viamo, a Ghana-based social and technology company that helps NGOs, government agencies, donors and businesses to communicate directly with their audience by using local languages to disperse their messages via mobile phone, has laid off some of its employees.  While TechCabal is yet to confirm the percentage of Viamo’s workforce that was let go, one

South African mobile payments platform Zapper is teaming up with the payments and data API platform Stitch to enable Zapper’s more than one million customers to make secure instant electronic fund transfers (EFTs) payments at points of sale (POS). The service will be available via Stitch’s LinkPay product which offers secure one-click Instant EFT payments

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Chijioke Emole Echeme Emole* Imagine a country founded online. A country which is formed first in the cloud as a peculiar and purposeful ‘internet phenomenon’, and eventually as an interconnected but non-contiguous series of ‘enclaves’ linked together by shared values, a common vision, and a declared objective. Can

Oyekola and Akinnuwa Image Source: Duplo The B2B payments sector in sub-Saharan Africa offers a lot of promise. According to a 2016 World Bank report, micro, small, and medium retailers paid out $1.5 trillion to their suppliers in 2015. Currently, this sector is dominated by cash payments and offline bank transfers, which has caused late

American political satire show “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” has partnered with Cape Town-based startup VoiceMap to launch an interactive self-guided walking tour taking guests on a journey through the events of the January 6, 2021 insurrection in Washington D.C. The walking tour, titled “In the Footsteps of the Freedomsurrection”, will allow listeners to