Ilorin Innovation Hub trains youths to earn $2,000 monthly
The Ilorin Innovation Hub says it is equipping young people with digital skills that can earn them up to $2,000 monthly through technology and entrepreneurship
Food security: How technology can drive Nigeria’s productivity-driven agric sector dreams
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.
Nigeria, South Africa plot strategy to close intra-African trade gap
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.
Why digital skills are the new currency for women
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.
Why Digital Transformation Fails: It is an operational intelligence problem, not a technology one
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 […]
PalmPay reports 35 million users, deepens role in Nigeria’s digital finance ecosystem
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.
Building on rented land: How Nigeria loses N60bn yearly to foreign domains
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.
Resilience gaps in submarine cable systems threaten West Africa’s digital economy, WATRA warns
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.
Nigeria may not make shishi from two new satellites in 2029 unless
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.
From Import Dependency to Local Capacity: Nigeria’s Tech Manufacturing Journey
The recent escalation in the US-Israel conflict with Iran has delivered a sharp reminder of Nigeria’s economic vulnerability.
Locally made metal cards ‘ll boost homegrown capacity, reduce capital flight – Seun Lawal, CEO Cardforté
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 […]
