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Thrilling announcement: Introducing The Large Every day publication

Thrilling announcement: Introducing The Large Every day publication

Are you ready for The Big Daily? Big Cabal Media wants to help you get smarter as it’s already doing with TechCabal’s tech coverage and Zikoko’s youth culture coverage. Living in Nigeria has already taught…

Africa’s digital future: Why clear information is essential to monetary inclusion

Africa’s digital future: Why clear information is essential to monetary inclusion

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Sabine Mensah . While on a speaking tour in 2022 to share findings from a report I co-authored, a central bank official from West Africa shared a key…

Breaking: South Africa grants crypto licences to Luno, VALR and 73 different corporations

Breaking: South Africa grants crypto licences to Luno, VALR and 73 different corporations

In March, South Africa’s financial conduct regulator approved 59 operating licences for crypto businesses but did not share the names of beneficiaries of the country’s first-ever crypto licences.  On Monday afternoon, the Financial Sector Conduct…

Unique: The Peer will return $350,000 to buyers after shutting down

Unique: The Peer will return $350,000 to buyers after shutting down

When The Peer, a Nigeria-based API startup, shut down in April, the business still had up to twenty months of runway. The shutdown, which its founders blamed on an inability to find product-market fit, means…

Subsequent Wave: Is there a approach to tame Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour?

Subsequent Wave: Is there a approach to tame Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour?

First published 21 April, 2024 Apple, the American iPhone and MacBook maker, is excellent at market analysis, planning, and identifying an optimal course of action before launching its products or services. It continuously monitors product…

First Financial institution names Olusegun Alebiosu performing CEO after Adeduntan’s shock exit

First Financial institution names Olusegun Alebiosu performing CEO after Adeduntan’s shock exit

FBN Holdings, the parent company of Nigeria’s oldest bank, has appointed Olusegun Alebiosu as acting chief executive officer of First Bank of Nigeria after the surprise resignation of CEO, Adesola Adeduntan. Until this appointment, Alebiosu…

TLcom Capital closes $154 million fund for early-stage African startups

TLcom Capital closes $154 million fund for early-stage African startups

TLcom Capital, a Nairobi-based VC firm that has backed startups like Vendease, Seamless HR, and uLesson, has reached a final close for TIDE Africa II, a $154 million fund focused on early-stage startups. The fund…

Partech, its $300 million fund, backing daring founders, and being intentional about exits

Partech, its $300 million fund, backing daring founders, and being intentional about exits

In February, Partech,  the global VC firm that has backed companies like TradeDepot and Wave, fully closed ‘Partech II,’ an over $300 million (€280 million) Africa-focused fund—the largest on the continent. It was a delightful…

Nigeria’s authorities will criminalise fibre harm after inflicting ₦27 billion in losses to MTN and Airtel in 2023

Nigeria’s authorities will criminalise fibre harm after inflicting ₦27 billion in losses to MTN and Airtel in 2023

Nigeria’s works ministry is finalising a regulation that will criminalise fibre damage after fixing cable cuts caused ₦27 billion in losses to MTN and Airtel. The regulation will enforce stiffer penalties on offenders and focus…

Verify your 2024 JAMB outcomes

Verify your 2024 JAMB outcomes

The JAMB 2024 registration processes have been concluded and the exams have already commenced and your results will typically be available to check 24-72 hours after you finish your exam. Here’s a detailed article on…

Will you pay ₦50 to skip lengthy purchasing queues? Techstars-backed Leap n Cross hopes so

Will you pay ₦50 to skip lengthy purchasing queues? Techstars-backed Leap n Cross hopes so

Jump n Pass, a TechStars-backed startup is attempting to solve an age-old problem with physical shopping: time spent in queues. The startup’s product is a mobile self-checkout platform that allows shoppers to scan a QR…

Kenya’s Ministry of Communications recommends regulating TikTok, rejects outright ban

Kenya’s Ministry of Communications recommends regulating TikTok, rejects outright ban

Kenya’s information ministry has opposed any suggestions of a TikTok ban and argued that the popular Chinese short-video social platform owned by ByteDance should be more regulated. In a parliamentary hearing on Friday, John Tanui,…