“We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them,” Grok said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

As Nigeria races towards a cashless economy, anchored on payment systems such as mobile money, banking applications, unstructured supplementary service data, USSD, codes and ATMs, a central pillar of its Digital Public Infrastructure, DPI, Nigerians living with disability, especially those who, are visually impaired are being left behind.

MTN Nigeria at the weeked, treated its prestige customers to a special kind of christmas celebration, in what it tagged Yellotide Prestige Experience.

Managing Director, Routepay and Co-Founder of Routelink Group, Femi Adeoti, has been listed among Nigeria’s influential technology chief executives in a 2025 industry assessment released by the Technology Industry Leadership Watch, TILW. Routepay says the honour to its CEO is very remarkable because TILW is a platform that tracks executive impact and enterprise innovation across Africa’s digital economy.

In a bid to restore trust and transparency in Nigeria’s real estate sector, the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with Sytemap Technologies Limited, to digitize land and property transactions nationwide.

Nigeria’s technology sector in 2025 marked a clear transition from survival to consolidation, as operators, startups, regulators, and policymakers adjusted to economic pressures while laying the groundwork for long-term digital growth.

As the global tech landscape accelerates towards 2026, Founder, MGX researchers, Nnaemeka Ani has challenged Nigeria and indeed Africa’s tech innovators to seize the moment and shape their own destiny by localising their innovations.

Nigeria is accelerating push towards Digital Public Infrastructure, DPI, rolling out systems leveraging artificial intelligence, AI, financial technology, fintech, cloud services, e-government, cashless payments, and smart-city initiatives.

It began as a murmur in the National Assembly, amplified by viral commentary: in terms of reach and reliability, certain fintech platforms have quietly become the most central banks in Nigeria’s informal economy.

Chief Executive Officerof Technology Distribution, TD Africa, Mrs Chioma Ekeh has claimed that Nigeria is typically driving Africa’s digital renaissance, urging every stakeholder in the Information and Communications Technology, ICT sector to join hands with her company to sustain the country’s drive towards making Africa the hub of world technology development.

“We’re getting into the ‘uncanny valley,'” said Constance de Saint Laurent, a professor at Ireland’s Maynooth University, referring to the phenomenon in which interactions with artificial objects are so human-like it triggers unease.

NCC has read the riot acts to telecom operators in the country to step up their services or incur the wrath of the regulator

Airtel Nigeria has explained that recent advances in satellite technology, driven by SpaceX’s Starlink, have made satellite-based telecom services both effective and cost-efficient.

Technology researcher and CEO, Compsoftnet Technologies, Mr Taiwo Akinremi,has warned the Federal government to brace the challenge of protecting the country’s critical infrastructure and assets that guarantee social amenities, like water, electricity grid and even banks as they face severe threats from global hackers.

Airtel has said with Spacex’s Starlinks, provision of telecom services through satellite has become both effective and cost effective.