29 results
- 27 May 2024
MTN Group Fintech Hits Over 70m Users
Serigne Dioum, chief executive officer of MTN Group Fintech, has reaffirmed his outfit’s commitment to driving financial inclusion across Africa, leveraging innovative solutions to empower…
- 18 Jul 2019
Yolanda Cuba joins MTN as Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer
MTN Group has announced appointment of Yolanda Cuba as Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer. Yolanda will join the MTN Group Executive Committee reporting to the Group CEO Rob Shuter.…
- 7 Oct 2021
MTN Appoints Adekunle Awobodu as New Chief Financial Officer for Digital & Fintech
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Adekunle Awobodu as our new Chief Financial Officer for Digital and Fintech. Adekunle Awobodu, new Chief Financial Officer for Digital and Fintech. Kunle is…
- 11 Mar 2020
MTN Group Records Commercial Momentum in Financial Report
MTN Group on Wednesday announced an encouraging set of results for the year ended 31 December 2019. The group also announced the stepping down of Rob Shuter, group president and CEO at the end of his…
- 13 Jul 2022
MTN Group Opens Portal for its 2nd MoMo API Hackathon
MTN Group’s Mobile Money Application Interface (API) is inviting developers across several markets to participate in an Open API Hackathon, with a challenge to create a mobile application that uses…
- 9 Sept 2021
MTN Group Partners Flutterwave to Deploy Mobile Money Services Across Africa
MTN has entered into a new partnership with Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, to deploy mobile money services across Africa. This partnership will allow businesses…
- 16 Feb 2026
MTN CIO Urges Africa to Lead Fourth Digital Revolution
Chief Information Officer of MTN Nigeria, and recently appointed Executive, IT Core Design for MTN Group, Shoyinka Shodunke says Africa has a rare opportunity to lead and participate in the ongoing…
- 18 Aug 2025
MTN Group Restructures Executive Team, Appoints Toriola VP for Francophone Africa
MTN Group has announced a restructuring of its executive leadership team to strengthen the implementation of its Ambition 2025 strategy and drive long-term growth across key markets. The…
- 23 Mar 2022
MTN Announces Leadership Changes in Nigeria, Iran and Sudan
MTN Group has announced senior leadership appointments to operating companies in Nigeria, Iran and Sudan, all of them internal candidates, as we focus on executing on our strategy to drive growth,…
- 10 Jun 2026
MTN Launches One TV with Free-to-View, Pay-as-You-Go
MTN Group has begun rolling out MTN One TV, a new entertainment proposition designed to make digital video content more accessible, relevant, and flexible for customers across African markets.…
- 28 Oct 2021
Remita Partners MTN’s Yello Digital Financial Services to Deepen Financial Inclusion
Remita, a leading Africa-focused fintech brand, has partnered with Yello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), the Fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria and the operator of MoMo Agent Service, to extend…
- 25 Sept 2022
Chika Ekeji Unpacks MTN Ambition 2025
Chika Ekeji, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer of MTN Group, has reiterated the company’s commitment to become the largest, most valuable business platform in the African continent through…
- 28 May 2023
MoMo PSB Partners MTN Foundation to Educate Female Entrepreneurs
MoMo PSB on Friday, May 19, 2023 organized a forum in partnership with MTN Foundation’s Y’ellopreneurs, at the Lagos Continental hotel Lagos. The forum had female business owners, MoMo agents and…
- 17 Mar 2025
MTN's Earnings Hammered by Free Falling Naira in Nigeria
MTN Group has reported a 69 per cent decline in full-year earnings, citing the impact of Nigeria’s naira devaluation and operational difficulties in Sudan. Karl Toriola, chief executive officer, MTN…
- 23 Jan 2022
Regulatory Approval Delays MTN Nigeria’s PO Allotment
MTN Nigeria Communications (MTN Nigeria) Plc’s retail public offer’s allotment is still undergoing regulatory approval, more than one month after the closure of application list for the offer.…
- 30 Nov 2021
MTN Nigeria Launches 575m Ordinary Shares @ N169 per share
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, Nigeria’s largest telecommunications company,has announced that it will open public offering of 575 million ordinary shares to the general retail investing public at a…
- 16 Feb 2021
Mastercard, MTN Partners to Enable Global e-Commerce Payments Across Africa
Mastercard and MTN have entered into a strategic partnership to enable millions of consumers in 16 countries across Africa make global e-commerce payments safely and securely. Through a Mastercard…
- 21 May 2026
MTN to Turn its African Tower Network Into a Distributed AI Compute Grid
MTN Group plans to convert its African tower estate into a distributed AI compute fabric, installing open GPU infrastructure at base-station sites so that the same hardware can run both the cellular…
- 20 Oct 2021
AFDB, MTN Ink $500,000 Grant Agreement to Enhance Women’s Access to Financial Services in Nigeria
The African Development Bank’s initiative, the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), and Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), the fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, have signed an…
- 23 May 2023
SABRE Africa Honours MTN’s Karl Toriola with Certificate of Excellence
In recognition of his tenacious leadership and drive for innovation, Karl Toriola, the CEO of MTN Nigeria, received the 2023 SABRE Africa Certificate of Excellence as CEO of the Year. Since becoming…
- 11 Jun 2024
Interoperability between mobile money and card is enabling Africa’s access to the global financial system
By Christian Bwakira, Group Chief Commercial Officer at Onafriq Mobile money has exploded across African economies as an enabler of financial inclusion by bringing in large swaths of the population…
- 5 May 2026
UBA, Redtech, MoMo PSB Expand Merchant Payment Access Across Nigeria
United Bank for Africa (UBA), Redtech, and MoMo PSB have launched a payment interoperability partnership that expands cardless payment access for consumers and merchants across Nigeria. Redtech is…
- 5 Apr 2021
MTN, Banks Agree on USSD
MTN Nigeria and its banking partners have reached agreement on unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) channels services restriction. The development is relief for Nigerian customers on the…
- 30 Oct 2020
MTN Fetches $142.32m from Sale of Jumia Stake
MTN raised $142.32 million from the sale of its 18.9% interest in Jumia Technologies, online retailer, as part of its asset optimisation strategy that has seen it exit some of its non-core business…
- 26 Aug 2026
MTN Nigeria Backs Economic Integration as Official Sponsor of Nigeria-South Africa Chamber Of Commerce August Forum
MTN Nigeria is set to be the headline sponsor for the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of Commerce (NSACC) August 2026 Breakfast Forum. The event is scheduled to hold on Thursday, August 27, at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
- 5 Aug 2019
MTN Investment in Nigeria Hits N2trn
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has invested more than N2 trillion in its business operations over the past 18 years. The market value of MTN Nigeria closed at the weekend at N2.585 trillion.…
- 7 Sept 2020
ICT Impact CEO Forum Holds November 27
Most of the best Nigerian CEO in the information and communications sub-sector will gather at the 2020 edition of the ICT Impact CEO Forum scheduled to hold November 27 at the Prestigious Oriental…
- 2 Aug 2018
Team C-Stell Win as Access Bank Partners AFF in Nigeria’s Largest Hackathon
Team Cosmos Constellation (C-Stell) emerged as winners of the //Re:Code Nigeria Hackathon 2018 themed “Data Hack” which was sponsored by Access Bank Plc in partnership with Africa Fintech Foundry…
- 30 Apr 2026
Nigeria’s CardForté Turns Five, Showcasing Impact on Domestic Payment Infrastructure
For Nigeria's rapidly expanding financial sector, the true bottleneck to scaling has rarely been user acquisition; it has been the physical infrastructure of payments. On April 24, 2026, at the Lagos…