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- 24 Jul 2013
World Gray Market Mobile Phone Shipments Drops
The gray market for mobile phones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping 12 percent as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to branded…
- 29 Feb 2024
MTN, Mastercard Partner to Accelerate Mobile Money Payment Across Africa
Mastercard and MTN Group Fintech have signed an agreement to provide all MTN MoMo customers with payment cards. In a joint statement on Thursday, the companies said a virtual and physical Mastercard…
- 9 Nov 2014
FG Connects 111 Communities to Telephony Services at Igbo Olodumare
Dr Omobola Johnson, minister of Communication Technology has commissioned one of the several Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) deployed across the South West region by Odu’atel through subsidies…
- 2 Oct 2017
NCC Says USPF On Course for Availability, Accessibility & Affordability Services
Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, the executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has stated the strategic activities of the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF, were…
- 22 Oct 2025
Over 19,000 Fibre Cuts Reported in 2025, NCC Calls for Infrastructure Protection
Dr. Aminu Maida, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has called for urgent, inclusive action to bridge Nigeria’s digital divide,…
- 12 Mar 2026
Easybuy Sales Talent Program to Empower 10,000 Nigerians to Become Millionaires
Easybuy, Africa’s leading smartphone and electronics financing provider and a pioneer in the continent’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) sector, has announced plans to recruit up to 10,000 new business…
- 26 Jan 2021
Global App Downloads Reached 218bn in 2020
After a year that saw more app downloads than ever before, demand for new apps and games is expected to accelerate in 2021. This is according to the App Annie State of Mobile Report 2021, which…
- 18 Jan 2026
Lebara Launches Agent Registration Portal
Lebara Nigeria has launched the Agent Registration Portal (ARP), a new digital onboarding platform designed to accelerate the expansion of its retail and point-of-sale (POS) network nationwide.…
- 18 Jun 2014
IBM Committed to Accelerating Innovation in Nigeria- Otiti
Taiwo Otiti, International Business Machines (IBM) West Africa country general manager has reiterated the Corporation’s commitment to the provision of mechanisms and architecture for the…
- 6 Feb 2014
IBM Invests in Accelerating Innovation in Nigeria
IBM has announced it is further expanding its operations across Africa with the opening of an IBM Innovation Centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The new facility is designed to accelerate innovation for…
- 23 Feb 2013
MM Operators Race to Interoperability Deadline
Mobile money service providers in the country are making last-ditch effort to connect to the National Central Switch (NCS) in compliance with the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),…
- 15 Dec 2013
Peninsula Capital, Others Make 2nd Round Growth Capital Investment in Rancard
Rancard has announced that it has concluded its second institutional investment round led by Peninsula Capital, a private investment management company, based in Menlo Park, California. Also…
- 8 Sept 2018
Paga to Further Accelerate Growth with $10M Series B2 Investment
Paga, the leading mobile money company in Nigeria has announced that it has closed a $10 million growth financing led by the Global Innovation Fund. Also participating in the round were existing…
- 10 Jun 2021
Nigeria, SA and Kenya are Top Drivers of eCommerce Volumes in SSA - Visa
A recent Visa report has shown that the top market contributors to eCommerce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the last 3 years were South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, with Ghana also showing growth,…
- 25 Mar 2025
Mastercard Announces Bold Investments to Propel Africa's Digital Payments Economy Towards $1.5 Trillion Goal by 2030
Africa’s digital payments economy is set to grow from strength to strength according to a Mastercard-commissioned report by Genesis Analytics stating that the digital payments economy is expected to…
- 23 Jun 2026
Africa Projected to Lead Global 5G Growth
Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to become one of the world's fastest-growing 5G markets, with subscriptions expected to reach 370 million by 2031, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report.…
- 14 Nov 2021
E-Settlement Concludes Deal to Acquire OuickCash
Indigenous Fintech Group, E-Settlement (E-SL) has signed an agreement to acquire QuickCash, an Ivorian electronic payment and money transfer company. QuickCash provides financial, agricultural, and…
- 29 Aug 2024
FintechNGR, Africa Fintech Network Call for Enhanced Collaboration and Innovation on Cross-Border Payments and Remittances
In a continued effort to drive innovation and collaboration within the fintech sector, the Fintech Association of Nigeria (FintechNGR), in partnership with the Africa Fintech Network (AFN), hosted an…
- 8 Dec 2008
Starcomms Rolls out in Owerri
Nigeria’s telecommunications operator in ‘triple play’ technology (mobile, fixed wireless voice and wireless broadband) Starcomms, has rolled out service in eastern heart land of…
- 17 Jul 2018
Farmcrowdy Wins Digital Business of the Year Award in Africa
Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform has won the Digital Business of the Year (2018) award in Africa. The award was granted at the annual Global African Business…
- 11 Jan 2010
Telecom Subscribers’ Expectations in 2010
Telecommunications industry in the country coming from the tortuous 2009 occasioned by global economic meltdown and Central Bank of Nigeria reform in the banking which have affected both operators…
- 8 Feb 2022
Google to Improve Two-step Verification to keep Internet Users Safe Online
Google has announced expansion of its two-step verification (2SV) process for log-ins to enhance account security after its newly introduced two step verification initiative saw a 50 percent drop in…
- 18 May 2020
COVID-19 Response: Mastercard to Connect 1Bn People, 50m Small Businesses, 25 Million Women Entrepreneurs to the Digital Economy by 2025
The health and economic consequences of COVID-19 have highlighted the critical need to support vulnerable populations, many of whom are disproportionately impacted. In this time of global crisis,…
- 2 Feb 2023
4 Methods for Meeting Customers at their Pain Points Instead of Just Selling
Every business is founded to solve a customer problem, and the vast majority of products and services are designed to alleviate a specific customer pain point. But it is still important to let each…
- 21 Apr 2025
PAFON 2.0: Experts Discuss Pathways to Boost Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
Improved efforts at collaboration among financial service providers, telecommunication operators, and tech Startups, with conscious effort geared at consumer awareness, have been proffered as key…
- 2 Jul 2026
Visa Targets Nigeria, Others in Visa Pay Expansion Drive
Visa is expanding access to Visa Pay for additional issuers across Africa through a software development kit (SDK) that enables banks, mobile money operators, and fintechs embed Visa Pay capabilities…
- 21 Jun 2014
Lamudi Unwraps Real Estate Mobile App
Lamudi.com, global leading real estate portal, has taken the wrapper off the world-first mobile app, on Android, for house-hunters, available in Nigeria and 27 emerging markets worldwide. Lamudi…