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Exclusive: OPay’s core payments business is still growing
OPay says it is having its best yet ever. It claims it now has 5 million users and processes over 60% of mobile money transactions in Nigeria Outside its core payment business, OPay’s 2020 had been...
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How Chinese tech billionaire Yahui Zhou is calling the shots at OPay
The Chinese tech billionaire has grand IPO designs for his African startup, a feat he has pulled off with Beijing Kunlun, Opera and attempted at Grindr. The second day of July 2020, was chaotic for...
View ArticleWhy some of Nigeria’s worst cyberattacks are not reported
Organisations in Nigeria suffer more cyberattacks than any other country in Africa. But these attacks go unreported despite a mandatory regulation for disclosure. On July 17, Twitter suffered an...
View ArticleWhy Nigeria is a growth opportunity for Audiomack
Music streaming and discovery service, Audiomack has officially expanded to Nigeria with a new office in Lagos. The eight-year-old company is positioning itself for a growth in music streaming in the...
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How Africa’s biggest telecom companies are diversifying their revenue streams
Over the last few years, Africa’s biggest telcos have been diversifying their revenue away from voice services. But the pandemic shows they still have more to do. For African telecom companies, the...
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9Mobile’s new CEO is pinning the company’s future on digital services
From Etisalat to 9Mobile and the struggles after, its new CEO Alan Sinfield is charting a new course for the company in data and digital services. For the last decade, 9Mobile was Nigeria’s...
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Apple’s new MagSafe battery pack just made power banks cool again
A few days back, someone on Nigerian Twitter asked if women would date a man who always moved around with a power bank. Seems like a harmless question, right? Well, that singular tweet snowballed into...
View ArticleAggregators are enabling independent voices in Kenya’s controlled news circuit
Kenya is all about the news. No, literally, “Habari”, a common greeting in Swahili, means “Any news?” in English. Everyone has their favourite publication. And every publication has a different story....
View ArticleAre Ugandan telcos equipped to protect user data?
A recent report from Unwanted Witness, a Uganda-based civil society organisation, reveals that two years on from the implementation of Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act, the nation’s tech...
View ArticleNigerian telecom regulator rejects MTN and Airtel tariff hike
Nigeria’s telecom regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission has rejected the recent increase in the prices of voice and data services by telecom operators in the country. This hike, a 10% tariff...
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