Nigeria's airport authority boss, Olubunmi Kuku, told airlines to fix their schedules during the holiday rush because flight delays keep messing things up for travelers. The Federal Airports Authority started holding weekly coordination meetings with ground handlers and carriers instead of their usual quarterly setup, and they want better communication when flights get delayed. Kuku mentioned they are fixing broken cooling systems and dealing with power problems at Lagos airport, while pulling facility managers into major terminals because the bathroom situation has been getting complaints.
Revenue jumped over 50 percent on the non-aeronautical side since the current leadership took over last year, and landing fees plus passenger...
Sterling Bank teamed up with Pan-Atlantic University's Enterprise Development Centre to hand out certificates to people finishing their Non-Oil Export Academy program. The bank's CEO, Abubakar Suleiman, said the whole point is building a crew of exporters who can actually compete globally instead of just teaching basic export mechanics, and they want hundreds of graduates ready to work together on problems bigger than what individual businesses can handle alone.
Dr. Nneka Okekearu from EDC mentioned that the export market has been ignored for way longer than it should have been, and entrepreneurs going through this training will help create better communities while following proper standards. The academy plans to run four batches...
NICON Town residents and landowners are telling a Lagos court to ditch the legal procedure Harris Dredging Limited and Nicon Town Management Company chose for their ownership case over property in Lekki. The defendants want Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi to switch the whole thing from an originating summons to a writ of summons because they say the dispute involves fraud claims and messy historical ownership problems that need proper witness testimony.
Harris Dredging and NTMC filed suit against the Incorporated Trustees of the NICON Town Residents and Plot Owners Association, plus 14 homeowners, asking the court to confirm Harris Dredging holds title to roughly 5,899 square meters in the Community Centre Zone. The companies are also...
Namibia's telecom regulator, CRAN, locked down a partnership with the University of Namibia to work together on ICT stuff, cybersecurity projects, and capacity-building programs. The two groups want to pump up academic quality while giving local students and workers the tools they need to handle the country's expanding digital scene.
The deal sets up joint research initiatives and training sessions designed to boost national expertise in tech and security fields. Both outfits are betting this collaboration will keep Namibia competitive in regional tech development and help build up homegrown talent instead of relying on outside resources.
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe told the stock exchange that its shares are trading way below what the company is actually worth, and the board thinks this mismatch is making it harder to get decent funding for network upgrades. The telecom outfit started looking at corporate moves that might fix the valuation problem and give shareholders better returns.
The company warned investors to be careful trading the stock until they drop more details about what they might do. Management thinks the market price does not line up with how the business is actually performing, and they want the valuation to reflect the real growth happening at the company.
Econet has been around since 1998, and the board says they are focused on protecting shareholder...
Finnfund wants to dump cash into fiber networks across emerging markets next year because Kuutti Kilpeläinen thinks the digital divide is getting worse while data consumption keeps climbing. The firm manages around 1.3 billion euros total, with 200 million already parked in companies pushing digitalization forward. They throw 200 to 250 million euros around every year, and 40 percent of that goes toward digital businesses.
The investment crew grew from two people to eight since 2021, and they back 15 companies at this point by writing checks between 5 and 20 million euros per outfit. Kilpeläinen pointed out that Africa only has 300 megawatts of data center capacity right now compared to hundreds of megawatts getting built annually in...
Mozambique's telecom regulator INCM dropped their progress report at a meeting in Inhambane, and it connected over 200 schools to the internet while setting up 12 upgraded Digital Squares with fresh tech. The agency awarded contracts for 60 new cell towers in unconnected zones, opened a cybersecurity lab in Nampula province, and launched ThinkLab as a tech incubator. They also ditched the 5G spectrum auction in favor of handing out frequencies directly to carriers with coverage requirements attached.
Enforcement went hard with 98 site inspections and yanking 863 licenses from radio stations that weren't playing by the rules. The regulator set up ERIST to handle network security incidents across the country, and they started studying...
Cyber Gear snagged the Dubai AI Seal as one of the first local outfits to get government recognition for building AI agents and industry solutions. The company claims its autonomous agents can knock out three-month tasks in about an hour while running nonstop without adding headcount, and they're working on multiple agents for a Dubai government entity to handle licensing and evaluation workflows.
The bots tackle document validation, eligibility screening, OCR data extraction, background checks, and spit out recommendations with full audit trails. They basically act like virtual committee members reviewing legal and financial docs, then generate consolidated PDF reports for each stage. Early adopters are apparently seeing four to...
Dubai SME teamed up with Google to run a pilot program that gives 10 Emirati-owned small businesses free access to premium digital marketing tools, ad credits, and mentorship from both companies. Ahmad Alroom Almheiri from Dubai SME and Martin Roeske from Google announced the collaboration as part of pushing the Dubai Economic Agenda forward, and they picked the initial batch based on criteria to test the model before scaling it wider later.
The funding gets split three ways between Dubai SME, Google, and each participating business, which means everyone has skin in the game for accountability purposes. Companies get strategic guidance plus hands-on help running high-impact campaigns through Google's advertising platforms, and the...
