Stakeholders at the Interswitch Retail Summit have called for stronger collaboration between the private sector and government to unlock new opportunities for retailers and drive sustainable growth across Nigeria’s retail ecosystem.

Technology is emerging as the defining force in Nigeria’s push to transform agriculture from a subsistence activity into a modern, productivity-driven sector capable of ensuring food security and economic stability.

Intra-African trade remains below 20 per cent of the continent’s total trade and this low level of trade deficit is a significant obstacle to sustainable growth and development.

There’s a quiet shift happening in how women build wealth, and it’s not starting in boardrooms or policy papers. It’s starting with access—access to tools, to knowledge, and most importantly, to digital skills that turn potential into income.

By Felicia Oyedara Every transformation programme starts with a process map, swimlane diagrams, documented workflows, and a shared belief that the organisation understands how its own work moves. That belief may not always fully reflect operational realities, and the cost of discovering gaps mid-migration is rarely small. In April 2018, TSB Bank migrated customer records […]

The digital banking platform, PalmPay, has said it now has over 35 million users, six years after launching operations in Nigeria’s financial services market.

Nigeria is quietly losing an estimated N60 billion every year to foreign domain registrations and web hosting services, a steady outflow that highlights a deeper structural weakness in the country’s digital economy.

Executive Secretary, West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly, WATRA, Aliyu Aboki has said that West Africa’s growing digital economy is increasingly exposed to systemic risks due to weak resilience in submarine cable infrastructure and fragmented regional coordination.

By 2029, Nigeria would have launched two communications satellites into space. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Jane Egerton-Idehen, one will go up in 2028 and the other in 2029.

The recent escalation in the US-Israel conflict with Iran has delivered a sharp reminder of Nigeria’s economic vulnerability.

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor For the past five years, Co Founder and CEO of Cardforté, a card technology company, Seun Lawal, has navigated his business through the trenches to now appear in the Frontline of Nigeria’s payment ecosystem But within those years, he has learned that doing business in Nigeria teaches one very quickly […]

By Prince Osuagwu High-level government officials and development partners gathered at the University of Lagos to unveil the Artificial Intelligence University Innovation Pods (AI UNIPOD) at the Lagos State University, yaba. Organizers say AI UNIPOD is a project that aims to empower students and institutions with practical skills, foster innovation, and spur measurable social and […]

If Telecom services remain the way it had been in the past few weeks, we surely will have an Easter celebration full of dropped calls and data depletion complaints.

Google has announced the global expansion of its Search Live feature, alongside the launch of a new voice and audio model, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live.

Nigeria’s digital economy is growing rapidly, contributing over 18 percent to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, yet a significant gender gap in digital skills continues to limit women’s participation in this growth.