DevOps engineer Osinachi Ibiam-Uro is a mom in tech, and she is loving it here
Osinachi Ibiam-Uro vividly remembers the sting of her manager’s words in 2009. At Oceanic Bank, then on the brink of insolvency, she […]
Six months on, Starlink still can’t serve new customers in Nairobi
Starlink, the SpaceX-owned satellite internet service, has been unable to onboard new customers in Nairobi since demand exceeded its network capacity in […]
OmniRetail raised $20 million. Here is what it means for 78% of its customers who are women
Joyce Moses, owner of a modest corner shop, faced the daily grind of sourcing everyday necessities like sachet beverages, grains, and toiletries […]
Safaricom targets SMEs with new M-PESA overdrafts and loans up to $3,000
Kenya’s biggest telco, Safaricom, has launched new credit products for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), introducing overdraft and short-term loans through its […]
MTN enters payments market with MoMo Pay targeting cash-heavy informal sector
MTN South Africa has entered the competitive payments market with MoMo Pay, a low-cost digital payment platform designed for informal merchants. Over […]
9mobile, MTN worst hit as fibre cuts, power failures cause record network outages in May
Nigeria’s telecommunications networks experienced a sharp rise in major service disruptions in May 2025, as fibre cuts, power outages, and system failures […]
Quidax, Yellow Card, Busha bet on B2B crypto payments to grow market share
If you swipe across the social media pages of Quidax, Yellow Card, and Busha—three prominent crypto startups operating in Nigeria—in recent months, […]
Onafriq appoints former PPRO chief Simon Black as board chair
Onafriq, a pan-African digital payments network, has named Simon Black as chair of the board of its UK holding company following his […]
African e-commerce startups raise $11.3M in Q1 as investor caution grows
Investor appetite for e-commerce startups in Africa is dwindling as year-on-year funding figures dropped by 47.2% in Q1 2025. According to data […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Starlink is (finally) coming to SA
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Good morning! You can get just about anything in the world—if you’ve […]
Fidelity Bank loses trillion-naira market cap after Supreme Court fine ruling
Fidelity Bank Plc, a tier-2 Nigerian commercial bank, has dropped out of the elite ₦1 trillion market capitalisation club, following a sharp […]
U.S. 5% remittance tax plan to threaten $2.8 billion of Africa’s foreign inflows
A proposed U.S. bill to impose a 5% tax on all outbound remittance transfers from non-citizens could divert as much as $2.8 […]