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Breaking: President Ruto declines assent to 2024 Finance Invoice

Breaking: President Ruto declines assent to 2024 Finance Invoice

In what would be considered a huge win for protesting Kenyans, President William Ruto has declined to sign the controversial 2024 Finance Bill after it passed committee change at Parliament on Tuesday. The tax bill…

OPay and Moniepoint difficulty 17 million Verve playing cards as Nigerian fintechs change from Visa and Mastercard

OPay and Moniepoint difficulty 17 million Verve playing cards as Nigerian fintechs change from Visa and Mastercard

A change in consumer behaviour and macroeconomic conditions are leading Nigerian banks to issue local cards like Verve to customers, dumping international card schemes like Visa and Mastercard. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigerian fintechs stumbled…

5 questions you need to ask your self as an early-stage startup

5 questions you need to ask your self as an early-stage startup

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Meike Neitz. What an incredible and wild rollercoaster ride to found your startup! You have an idea; you formulate a problem statement, validate the problem, and develop the…

Breaking: President Ruto denounces “treasonous occasions” after protest over tax invoice left eight useless

Breaking: President Ruto denounces “treasonous occasions” after protest over tax invoice left eight useless

Hours after eight people died protesting the passage of Kenya’s 2024 Finance bill, President William Ruto addressed the public, talking tough and denouncing “today’s treasonous events.” It is the President’s first address to the nation…

OccupyParliament protesters overpower police, enter Kenyan Parliament

OccupyParliament protesters overpower police, enter Kenyan Parliament

3:28 PM (Kenyan Time) OccupyParliament protesters have overpowered police and gained access to the Parliament after live rounds were fired. Eight people have been confirmed dead, per two Kenyan publications. Live rounds were fired at…

Kenyan Parliament passes invoice to hike taxes regardless of protests

Kenyan Parliament passes invoice to hike taxes regardless of protests

On Tuesday, Kenya’s parliament passed the 2024 Finance Bill despite opposition from thousands of Kenyans. A total of 195 MPs voted in favour of the bill, 104 voted against, and there were 3 void votes.…

Nigeria’s Central Financial institution permits IMTOs to promote FX on official window as naira finds stability

Nigeria’s Central Financial institution permits IMTOs to promote FX on official window as naira finds stability

Nigeria’s Central Bank will allow International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) to sell forex on the official window as the naira maintains relative stability. Eligible IMTOS will access the CBN window directly or through authorised dealer…

Starlink grows Kenya’s satellite tv for pc web customers 10x in a 12 months

Starlink grows Kenya’s satellite tv for pc web customers 10x in a 12 months

Less than a year after Starlink launched in Kenya in July 2023, the number of users has multiplied more than tenfold, signalling fast adoption of the Elon Musk-owned internet service. Three months before the launch,…

Subsequent Wave: How edtech accelerators can form the way forward for work in Africa

Subsequent Wave: How edtech accelerators can form the way forward for work in Africa

Edtech in Africa stands at a critical juncture. While traditional VC funding remains scarce, accelerators offer a lifeline...

Unique: Nigerian Banks start cost of $132 million USSD debt to telcos

Unique: Nigerian Banks start cost of $132 million USSD debt to telcos

₦200 billion. That’s how much Nigerian banks owe telecom companies for using Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) banking. That debt has been a source of friction between banks and telcos for six years and has…

Knowledge debacle: Unauthorised web sites provide NIN verification regardless of NIMC blacklist

Knowledge debacle: Unauthorised web sites provide NIN verification regardless of NIMC blacklist

Two websites selling the personal information of millions of Nigerians, idfinder.com.ng and championtech.com are still operational two days after the country’s Identity Management Commission (NIMC) confirmed they were unlicenced. After media reports on Friday, NIMC…

JAMB proclaims 2024 cutoff mark launch date and extra

JAMB proclaims 2024 cutoff mark launch date and extra

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is gearing up for its policy meeting on admissions, scheduled for July 18th, 2024. This session will set the stage for determining the JAMB cutoff mark 2024, which…