👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Airtel bets on itself
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Good morning! Your Gen Z co-worker doesn’t just want free snacks—they want […]
A priest, Oluwo Olawole Olakunle, is building an app to check fraudulent spiritualists
I locked myself in the office restroom to escape my colleagues’ chatter. Pacing, I needed a quiet place to listen to Oluwo […]
South African fintechs Paymenow, TymeBank, Omnisient make FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list
Three South African fintech startups, Paymenow, TymeBank, and Omnisient, have been named in the Financial Times (FT) Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2025 ranking. […]
MTN’s BankTech disburses $592 million in Q1 loans amid rising credit demand
BankTech, the digital lending arm of MTN Mobile Money unit, disbursed a record $592 million in loans in Q1 2025, according to […]
Moniepoint, PalmPay, OmniRetail, Paga make FT Africa’s fastest-growing companies list
Six Nigerian startups—Moniepoint, OmniRetail, PalmPay, Termii, Remedial Health, and Paga—have been listed on the Financial Times’ 2024 ranking of Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies, […]
Roam, M-Kopa top Kenyan firms on FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list
Three Kenyan startups—Roam Electric AB, M-KOPA Holdings Ltd, and Victory Farms Ltd—have been named among Africa’s fastest-growing companies in the latest ranking […]
Fidelity Bank reclaims trillion-naira market cap as stock rises to ₦21
On Friday, April 4, 2025, Fidelity Bank Plc—a tier-2 Nigerian commercial bank—crossed the ₦1 trillion market capitalisation mark, joining the ranks of […]
👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – You could pay 5% more for data
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية Good morning! Let’s dive in. Spar enters the mobile space backed by […]
CBN licences in Nigeria: types, costs & what fintechs should know
If you’re building a fintech startup in Nigeria, one of the first things you’ll need to figure out is this: what CBN […]
The promise of Mystocks lies in access: To a pan-African digital stock exchange
If you live in Africa, it is likely that you can easily buy Amazon stocks than you might e able to buy stocks […]
Jumia launches third-party logistics service in profitability push
E-commerce giant Jumia is now offering its logistics network to third-party businesses, including traders who operate solely on social media platforms, a […]
Spar enters South Africa’s mobile market with MTN-backed MVNO
Spar Group, the South African retail giant, is expanding into telecoms with the launch of Spar Mobile, a prepaid mobile virtual network […]