Nigeria’s digital lending boom was built on small, instant loans between ₦5,000 ($3.61) and ₦10,000 ($7.21) disbursed within minutes on sleek apps. But that model is beginning to shift. Digital lenders across the country are retreating from small-ticket loans, shifting toward larger loans and borrowers with verifiable income as regulatory pressure, tighter privacy rules, and

Bolt and WANATU have secured their e-hailing operator licences ahead of South Africa’s March 11 deadline, clearing a key hurdle in the country’s first serious attempt to regulate its e-hailing industry. In a statement shared with TechCabal, Bolt said it received its Certificate of Registration from the National Public Transport Regulator (NPTR) on February 27.

Canal+ will shut down Showmax, the African streaming platform run by its newly acquired subsidiary MultiChoice Group, ending an 11-year experiment that once represented the continent’s strongest attempt to challenge global streaming rivals. The decision, taken by the Showmax board and communicated to subscribers on Thursday, is part of an efficiency drive following the $3

Intron, a Nigerian AI startup that provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech transcription tools for African languages, has expanded its speech recognition platform, Sahara, to support 57 languages, adding 24 new ones as it deepens its push into healthcare, legal, financial services, and telecom. Sahara v2 covers 23 African languages within that total and supports more than