MTN Group has appointed Karl Toriola, CEO of MTN Nigeria, as Vice President (VP) of Francophone Africa, effective November 1, 2025, amid a broader restructuring to drive growth. Toriola, who has led MTN Nigeria since 2021, will oversee some of the group’s key Francophone markets, including Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, and Congo Brazzaville. His appointment

As a child, it was not unusual for Wilson Dike’s friends to travel outside the state, moving in and out of the neighbourhood for one reason or another. Separated, they developed a “pen pal” culture, writing letters to one another to stay in touch. But letters took weeks to deliver, and replies came back even

I first met Teniola Adedeji, CEO and co-founder of Pharmarun, at a health tech panel discussing the early days of launching Pharmarun. She told the audience that Pharmarun started with one simple observation: no single pharmacy ever had everything a patient needed. “People would wait, substitute, or send relatives across cities just to find medicine,”

When Bobby Ogbolu set up a small charging booth in front of his father’s house in Ikotun, Lagos, in late 2017, it wasn’t a grand business plan. It was to make extra money when acting gigs were slow. Back then, there was little competition.  “I was the only one doing it in my area then,”

MTN and Airtel are investing nearly $400 million (₦613.81 billion) to expand beyond voice and data to offer core startup infrastructure such as cloud and AI services. Their goal is to become startups’ go-to providers in a market still ruled by AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. By pricing in naira, promising AI-grade compute power, and

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