Ugandan Founders Build Irrigation Tech for Rain-Free Farming
Rodgers Mwijukye and Ronald Asiimwe met in high school in Uganda in 2015. They stayed close through university.…
Koyejo: Nigerian Named Among 3 Africans on TIME100 AI List
Nigerian-born computer scientist Oluwasanmi Koyejo has made TIME’s 2026 TIME100 AI list. He joins a small group of…
AWS Plans to Turn AI Ideas Into Products in 45 Days
Amazon Web Services wants to fix a common problem in enterprise AI. Coming up with an AI idea…
5G Smartphone Shipments in MEA Rise 8% in Q2 2026
5G smartphone shipments across the Middle East and Africa rose 8% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026.…
OPay Set to List Shares on Nigerian Stock Exchange
OPay is preparing to list its shares on the Nigerian Exchange. Sources familiar with the matter shared this…
MTN, Al Ashram to Build 150MW AI Data Centres in Africa
MTN Group has struck a partnership with Dubai-based investor Tarek Al Ashram to build 150 megawatts of AI-ready…
New Twitter.now App Sparks Legal Clash With Musk’s X
A group of former Twitter insiders has brought the old bird back to life, at least in name.…
“Nigeria Fibre Users Hit 319,735 in Q2 2026.
Nigeria’s fibre broadband market is growing fast. New industry figures show the country added about 78,000 fibre-to-the-X (FTTX)…
Peter Otobong: From Borrowed Laptop to Software Engineer
Peter Otobong did not grow up around software engineers. His world was full of accountants, government workers and…
Moniepoint Shuts Down MonieWorld UK Remittance Service
Moniepoint is phasing out MonieWorld, its United Kingdom remittance product. The shutdown comes less than two years after…