Love at first sight only worked one way when Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs crossed paths on a film set decades ago.
How Nollywood's power couple started
Joke Silva had zero clue who Olu Jacobs was beforehand.
Jacobs caught feelings immediately, but Silva needed time.
His actual age only surfaced after they started dating.
She credited his easy-going nature for their longevity.
Four decades and counting
Silva and Jacobs tied the knot back in 1985.
She was 24 at the time, and he was 44.
Their marriage has produced two children together.
One kid from Ojuelegba turned free studio scraps into Grammy wins and Billboard history, basically rewriting the global playbook for Afrobeats.
From Lagos streets to studio grind
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun grew up last of 12 kids.
Wizkid camped out at OJB Jezreel's studio for free time.
His music career kicked off at age 11 as Lil' Prinz.
A church group called Glorious Five was an early outlet.
EME deal changed the whole game
Banky W's Empire Mates Entertainment signed him in 2009.
Holla at Your Boy blew up commercially in 2010.
Superstar dropped in 2011 and made him a household name.
Global crossover hits kept stacking
Drake's One Dance collab in 2016 broke everything wide open.
Guinness World Records recognized him as a first for...
That self-styled royal title just got retired because the Holy Spirit apparently had other plans for Tonto Dikeh's personal brand.
Dikeh ditches the King label
Tonto Dikeh publicly dropped her King moniker on social media.
Spiritual obedience was her stated reason for the switch.
Evangelist Tonto, Aunty Tonto, or Big T all work instead.
Dikeh framed it as marching away from her old identity.
A freshly inked MoU between Namibia's and South Africa's central banks is tightening oversight of cross-border financial operations.
Revised central bank pact signed in Pretoria
Ebson Uanguta and Lesetja Kganyago put pen to paper.
BoN's governor visited SARB for the formal signing.
Supervisory rules and resolution protocols got beefed up.
Cross-border institutions face tighter joint scrutiny.
Why the old agreement needed a refresh
Financial markets in both countries are deeply intertwined.
Uanguta flagged their shared history as the foundation.
Regional integration and monetary stability drive the partnership.
Cheap 4G phones might finally reach millions of offline Africans, but surging memory chip costs and government taxes keep getting in the way.
Six nations tapped for budget phone pilots
DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda got picked first.
GSMA signed an MoU with G6 operators and device makers.
Pilot specs trace back to MWC Kigali 2025 guidelines.
Hitting that $30 to $40 sweet spot is the real challenge.
Memory prices are messing everything up
Component costs keep climbing, squeezing entry-level margins hard.
Tax and import duty cuts are what the coalition wants.
Around 3.1 billion people have a signal but zero internet access.
On-device AI needs memory that budget handsets can barely fit.
Swahili AI model drops at...
A fleet of 1,200 next-gen satellites could blanket the planet in half a year if Starship actually delivers on schedule.
Mid-2027 Starlink overhaul via Starship
SpaceX plans to cram 50 bigger satellites per flight.
Polar regions finally get coverage under this rollout.
Falcon 9 already hauled nearly 10,000 birds up there.
Starship's revamped design is gearing up for testing.
Starlink Mobile and the money machine
Starlink direct-to-cell got rebranded as Starlink Mobile.
Around 650 satellites keep that service running.
Monthly active users sit at 10 million currently.
Revenue projections peg SpaceX at $9 billion for 2026.
Growth targets are wild
Active users on Mobile should top 25 million by late 2026.
Worldwide reach is the goal...
A pledge to connect 120 million people in remote areas got blown past by 50 million, and the rollout spans over 80 countries.
Huawei smashes its connectivity target
Huawei delivered digital connectivity to 170 million people in remote regions.
Yang Chaobin announced the milestone at the TECH Cares Forum in Barcelona.
Their original 2022 pledge to the ITU Partner2Connect Coalition targeted 120 million by 2025.
Healthcare, education, and financial services access improved for those communities.
Skills and training initiatives
Skills on Wheels has trained over 130,000 people across 21 countries since 2019.
Youth, women, and underserved communities are the primary beneficiaries.
Digital literacy and STEM education drive the program's...
A $7.6 trillion industry just got told to stop coasting and start tackling its biggest vulnerabilities head-on.
MWC26 Barcelona kicks off
MWC26 Barcelona opened as the largest global connectivity event.
GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath delivered the opening keynote.
His three priorities: standalone network investment, inclusive AI, and a safer digital future.
Mobile connectivity reached 5.8 billion people last year.
Mobile Economy 2026 report highlights
Mobile tech generated $7.6 trillion in economic value during 2025.
Projections peg that figure at $11.3 trillion by 2030.
Over three billion people remain unconnected despite 96% broadband coverage.
5G will power 57% of all mobile connections by 2030.
Jobs, revenue, and...
A single integration now powers mobile money deposits across eight African markets, and the pipeline keeps growing.
PawaPay and Deriv expand together
PawaPay deepened its collaboration with Deriv for mobile money deposits across eight markets.
Their partnership kicked off in 2025 and targets further geographic expansion.
Deriv picked PawaPay to maintain localization and reliability at scale.
Mobile money transaction volumes climbed after coordinated launch campaigns.
What PawaPay handles under the hood
PawaPay connects businesses to local payment methods across 20 African markets.
Processing, settlement, FX, and reconciliation all run through one platform.
Deriv users fund accounts with mobile wallets they already use daily.
Why...
