Amazon’s official confirmation of 16,000 global job cuts may only be the beginning of a sweeping organisational overhaul. While the Seattle-based technology giant has publicly framed the redundancies ...

A new multicurrency wallet, Pouchers, is seeking to simplify international financial transactions for Africans who earn locally but spend globally. The fintech platform, powered entirely by ...

Let’s get one thing straight: the era of viewing African crypto adoption solely through the lens of retail speculation is ...

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has launched a public consultation to gather citizens' views on proposals to introduce age restrictions for children using social media platforms in ...

A new Nigerian AI startup, Veta Origin, has rolled out its large language model across six African countries, aiming to provide AI designed specifically for African users rather than adapting Western ...

In Part 1, we explored how mobile money fraud costs Africa $4 billion annually through SIM swaps, identity theft, and agent-assisted schemes. Now, the emerging threats and whether the continent can ...

It is one thing is for African telcos to post “big” earnings; it is another if it’s enough to accommodate their operational cost and infrastructural upgrades. When revenue is not sustainable, they ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks and fintechs to deploy an anti-money laundering tool that detects suspicious transactions and financial fraud in real-time. This is contained in a ...

In May 2022, the APC primary that produced Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate was conducted amid widespread allegations of delegate manipulation. Names on lists did not match faces in halls.

French media group Canal+ plans to hire more than 1,000 salespeople across Africa as part of a €100 million turnaround strategy for its newly acquired subsidiary, MultiChoice, which has lost 500,000 ...

Prembly, a compliance and digital security company, has launched FraudLens, an open-source intelligence platform that helps businesses detect fraudulent activity and identify fraud patterns. The tool ...

For many contract workers at First Bank of Nigeria, the calculation was straightforward: work hard, pass performance reviews, ...