From Canva to Standard Bank: how the AWS outage hit South Africa
On Monday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud provider suffered a widespread outage that disrupted several platforms across the gl...
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“We chose accessibility over sophistication, every time”: Day 1-1000 of Crop2Cash
Crop2Cash began with an ambitious goal: to end hunger by helping smallholder farmers access loans. But the journey from that goal to a functional busi...
What Africa’s consumers are demanding and who’s delivering
With the Flutterwave cross-border expansion as a case study, Mayokun Owolabi, Head of Global Expansions and Payments Partnerships at Flutterwave, high...
Nigeria has made progress since ‘Crypto Black Friday,’ but regulation remains insufficient
After years of stop-start regulation, Nigeria has made its intention clear that it is ready to bring its crypto sector, which has notoriously operated...
Digital Nomads: The global tech recruiter who can chose where to build a career
Rhoda Adeola remembers the first time she earned in euros: €500 as a contract hire for a Dutch company from her home in Nigeria in 2021....
Rising costs leave 38% of Nigeria’s SMEs earning under ₦10,000 profit daily
38% of Nigeria’s SMEs make less than ₦10,000 ($6.78) in daily profit, according to Moniepoint’s 2025 Informal Economy Report, suggesting that sm...
Despite a ₦647 trillion payment boom, Nigeria’s informal sector stays cash-first
Despite years of fintech expansion, internet banking growth, and mobile banking, Nigeria’s informal economy still operates primarily on cash. Only o...
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