Nigeria has a long history as a major creative hub in Africa and its influence is visible globally.
The nation is famed for its creative culture from a critically acclaimed Afrobeats scene to the global success of Nollywood blockbusters.

70% of data generated in Africa is residual in foreign countries with most of strategic organisations hosting their data outside the continent.

Africa’s venture ecosystem showed remarkable resilience in 2025, raising $3.9 billion in capital funding.
This is mostly because the continent’s tech founders are actively solving fundamental infrastructural challenges, bridging gaps in financial inclusion, healthcare, and supply chains with complex AI.

A youth-driven community and cultural movement called The Gathering experimented with a 100 continuous hours of culture, creativity, and community engagement at the National Stadium, Surulere, in a pilot phase that attracted the sponsorship of MTN Nigeria.

Nigeria’s fast-growing digital economy is facing a mounting cybersecurity crisis, with over 4,000 cyberattacks recorded weekly—prompting urgent calls for stronger data protection, local data storage, and stricter regulatory compliance.

As Nigeria accelerates its transition toward a cashless economy and deeper financial inclusion, stakeholders have raised concerns that persistent cybersecurity gaps and declining trust could undermine the sustainability of progress in the digital payments ecosystem.

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.