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BestBrokers analysed Crunchbase and PitchBook data to find 70 private companies reached $1B+ valuations globally in Q1 2026, with AI (17 unicorns) and healthtech (8) leading all sectors.The U.S. dominates with 886 of 1,727 total… Read full article →
Abubakar Taofik Oladimeji, a Nigeria-UK digital growth strategist, argues that most marketing teams optimise for vanity metrics like impressions and clicks rather than revenue causality. The ability to trace commercial outcomes back to specific platform… Read full article →
Chinese Consul General Yan Yuqing led a delegation of Chinese executives to Government House Enugu, praising Governor Peter Mbah's infrastructure and technology-focused investment strategy.Discussions are underway for direct Enugu-Guangzhou flights, a sister-city agreement with Chinese… Read full article →
Bitget Wallet opened pre-registration on 24 April for its Dollar Card in South Africa, closing 6 May, the first 500 applicants get a waived activation fee plus 2–200 USDC (worth up to ~R3,700) in randomised… Read full article →
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has launched a National IPv6 Implementation Strategy, backed by IXPN CEO Muhammed Rudman, targeting 30% nationwide IPv6 adoption by 2030, with interim milestones of 20% government network compliance and 25%… Read full article →
The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has debunked a viral infographic claiming the Federal Government introduced a new vehicle tax effective July 1, 2026, calling it false and misleading.The scam directed vehicle owners; private, commercial, and… Read full article →
Security firm Theori publicly released exploit code for CVE-2026-31431, nicknamed 'CopyFail', a severe Linux vulnerability that grants full administrator (root) access to attackers on virtually all Linux distributions, the disclosure came five weeks after privately… Read full article →
Ingentia Energies Limited, a Nigerian indigenous upstream oil company, has announced plans to scale production to 30,000 barrels per day by 2030, up from a current target of 10,000 bpd, after securing debt financing from… Read full article →
Global payments orchestration platform Yuno has partnered with Nigerian fintech giant Flutterwave to give international merchants a single API connection to multiple African payment systems, covering cards, mobile money, and bank transfers.The partnership covers key… Read full article →
MTN Nigeria reported Q1 2026 profit after tax of ₦355.5 billion, a 165.9% jump year-on-year. With service revenue hitting ₦1.5 trillion and 55 million active data users across its 89.5 million subscriber base.The telco nearly… Read full article →
Access Holdings Plc recorded a profit after tax of ₦216.54 billion in Q1 2026 (January–March), an 18.5% rise from ₦182.75 billion in Q1 2025, driven largely by lower funding costs, higher fee income, and trading… Read full article →
Shareholders of Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group) approved audited 2025 financials, a ₦2.00 per share final dividend, and a one-for-three bonus share issue at the company's 65th Annual General Meeting (AGM).The AGM re-elected Group Chairman… Read full article →
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) reports broadband penetration has stalled at 51.97%, far short of the federal government's 70% target under the National Broadband Plan (NNBP) 2020–2025, which expired in April 2026 without meeting its… Read full article →
HederaCon 2026 is a one-day conference hosted by Hedera (the distributed ledger network) featuring executives from Citi, Euroclear, DTCC, Moody's, Chainlink, Fireblocks, and White House crypto policy officials discussing tokenization, stablecoins, and AI-powered finance.The event… Read full article →
NestJS, a popular TypeScript framework with 75,000+ GitHub stars used to build server-side applications, has published its v12.0.0 roadmap targeting early Q3 2026.The biggest changes: full migration to ESM (a modern JavaScript module format), native… Read full article →
Anthropic has moved Claude Security, an AI-powered tool that scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and recommends patches, from closed preview into public beta, now available to Claude Enterprise customers with Team and Max plan support… Read full article →
The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), formerly FIRS, officially launched Rev360 on 30 April 2025, a next-generation digital tax administration platform designed to replace manual and fragmented tax processes with an integrated, intelligent system.The launch follows… Read full article →
At the LCCI AI Summit in Lagos on Wednesday, executives from Rex Insurance, ipNX Nigeria, and EldaKerr warned that Nigerian businesses collect large volumes of data but fail to structure, label, or archive it properly,… Read full article →
Counterpoint Research projects NTN-capable smartphones will hit 46% of global shipments by 2030, up from a premium-only niche today, driven by Apple, Samsung, Google, and Huawei.Current satellite features are limited to SOS and messaging; mass… Read full article →
Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has publicly denied allegations that it manipulated shareholding records of DAAR Communications PLC on its corporate registry portal, calling the claims 'false and misleading.'DAAR Communications and its parent DIHL allege… Read full article →
A software engineer at Moniepoint traces his path from teaching himself HTML on a phone app in 2017 to building loan flows and workflow automation serving millions of Nigerian business owners and field officers.Key lessons… Read full article →
WhatsApp is developing an in-house cloud backup infrastructure that would let users store and restore chat history, including messages, photos, and voice notes directly within the app, without routing data through Google Drive or iCloud.The… Read full article →
Major tech companies including Oracle (30,000 cuts alone) have laid off nearly 92,000 workers across 98 firms between January and late April 2026, the heaviest pace in two years.Companies are converting payroll into capital expenditure.… Read full article →
MTN Nigeria is selling a 60% majority stake in MoMo Payment Service Bank and Y'ello Digital Financial Services to parent MTN Group for ₦152.06 billion, retaining 40%.The restructuring centralises fintech control at the group level… Read full article →
SuperteamNG's Q1 2026 Impact Report shows Nigeria holds #1 in Africa and #6 globally in Solana developer share, with Nigerian builders making up 67% of all active Solana developers on the continent.In Q1 2026, SuperteamNG… Read full article →
Infinix officially launched the NOTE 60 Ultra in Nigeria at a high-profile event attended by retail partners SLOT Systems and Harmony Stores, influencers, and industry stakeholders.Infinix is positioning the NOTE 60 Ultra as a 'premium… Read full article →
Lagos-based Cencori, founded in June 2025 by Bola Banjo, Daniel Oreofe, and Ladipo Samuel, offers a unified AI gateway that secures, routes, and monitors LLM API requests for production applications, positioning itself as 'the Cloudflare… Read full article →
NITDA Director-General Kashifu Abdullahi announced at GITEX Africa on April 9 that Nigerian organisations must disclose cyber breaches or share threat intelligence, citing AI-amplified attacks and interconnected systems where one compromised institution can become a… Read full article →
Termii, Bani, MasteryHive AI, and Regxta were selected from nearly 2,600 applications across 17 African countries. An acceptance rate below 1% for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa's 10th cohort, announced 21 April 2026.All four Nigerian… Read full article →
Prompt engineering means writing effective instructions for AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude is gaining importance as AI becomes embedded in everyday work across writing, coding, marketing, and research.Experts argue that by 2026, knowing… Read full article →
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