Payment card brand Verve has officially surpassed the milestone of 100 million cards issued across Africa.

Technology, culture and entertainment will fuse together to produce a colourful 30-foot Chrismas tree at the heart of Lagos metropolis on Christmas eve.

Composite e-commerce platform, Konga, has has lifted part of the christmas spending weight off its existing and potential shoppers with the unveiling of the Konga Naija Shopping Festival, a nationwide end-of-year shopping campaign designed to bring value, convenience, and festive cheer to shoppers.

TikTok has suspended access to its late-night LIVE feature in Nigeria following a surge in livestreams containing explicit sexual content, including cases of users engaging in real-time sex acts before large online audiences.

A post-event report by Women in Technology in Nigeria, WITIN, has revealed that schools nationwide have started establishing robotics clubs, coding classes, sustainability projects and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM innovation hubs to give Nigeria’s education system a facelift. 

The deployment of cutting-edge technology and customer-centric approach in financial management have combined to give Nigeria’s frontline Microfinance bank, FairMoney improved credit rating by Global Credit Rating, GCR.

Tech giant Meta said Thursday it is starting to remove under-16s in Australia from Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first youth social media ban.

At the ongoing Africa Startup Festival, industry leaders highlighted key factors that determine whether startups attract funding and succeed in competitive markets.

Technology giant, Google, through its philanthropic arm has announced a N3 billion commitment to Nigeria to accelerate advanced AI skills development and strengthen digital safety across the country.

Lawyer and business coach, Barr Titilope Adisa-Obafemi has enjoined the federal government to harmonise different data platforms, including National Identification Number, NIN, Bank Verification Number, BVN and all others sitting in silos, in order to improve the ease of doing business policy.

In a move aimed at solving some of the biggest challenges facing early-stage startups- access to capital, global visibility, and cross-border infrastructure, a B2B global payments platform, Verto, has awarded a total of $15,000 to three Nigerian startups.

A 500-level Agric Economics and Farm Management student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Abdul-Hamid Awwal has become the latest car owner in town courtesy of the MTN Pulse Campus Invasion promo which ended recently.

Microûnance Bank, FairMoney, is thinking the survival of Nigerian professionals in this economic downturn, and has floated a flexible credit scheme to bail them out of the pangs of a poor economy.

Nigeria, again, took almost the last seat when countries of the world with strong fraud detection mechanisms were assessed.

Elon Musk’s X erupted in uproar after the rollout of a feature revealing an account’s location, exposing what users describe as global troll farms and influence operations on the platform — including in support of President Donald Trump.