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FCMB Pensions boss Christopher Bajowa says the company pushed out over 200 billion naira to retirees and beneficiaries since they started operating, and the whole anniversary walk thing in Abuja aims at getting micro businesses into the pension system because the regulator wants better coverage...

Nigeria cracked open the first chunk of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway after years of delays, and Works Minister David Umahi says the 47-kilometer stretch from Ahmadu Bello Way to Eleko Village in Lagos represents the initial piece of President Bola Tinubu's massive infrastructure push. The...

Nigeria locked down a billion-dollar innovation fund for marine and blue economy startups, and Maritime Innovations Hub CEO Ronke Kosoko says the cash gets announced at a Lagos summit where international money people meet President Bola Tinubu and Central Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso. The fund...

Caroline Chibaya dragged her ex-husband Alfred Mandido to Harare Civil Court, asking for $250 monthly support for their 17-year-old son, who has ADHD, and she claims the dad kept the kid out of school for a year while pushing traditional healers instead of actual treatment. She wants him in a...

A Zimbabwean judge told Wambutso Donald Makoni to get off eight mining claims after his dad revoked the power of attorney that let him run the family operation. Justice Maxwell Takuva shut down arguments that the father was mentally incompetent after a stroke, saying physical disability does not...

BUA Group dropped 30 billion naira across 510 employees who stuck around anywhere from five years to over 40 years, and founder Abdul Samad Rabiu handed out checks ranging from 100 million to 1 billion naira to the top 41 people at the ceremony. Five workers walked away with a billion each...

Edgebase Technologies hit the 20-year mark, and CEO Joel Egbai says the Lagos-based firm is doubling down on AI-powered infrastructure and cybersecurity tools that help clients spot problems before they blow up. The company started as a hardware supplier back in 2005, and it grew into a...

Mozambique's cabinet greenlit new dispute resolution rules for telecom and postal operators after the sector got messy with network buildouts, e-commerce growth, and mobile money services, creating friction between companies and customers. The Communications Regulatory Authority can now run...

DMCC signed a deal with Crypto.com to push tokenization in the commodities game, and the whole thing is about using blockchain to cut down settlement times and make pricing less opaque across precious metals, diamonds, energy products, and agricultural stuff. The MoU covers potential listings of...

Chad kicked off a four-day fiber optic mapping workshop at the Hotel de l'Friendship with officials from ARTAC, ARCEP, and the International Telecommunications Union showing up to talk about getting better connectivity across Africa. The Ministry of Posts and Digital Economy is pushing the whole...

CardinalStone Asset Management is running what they claim is Nigeria's biggest Umbrella Infrastructure Fund at 500 billion naira, and the first chunk dropping is a 20 billion naira debt vehicle targeting power grids, telecom buildouts, transport networks, and utilities. The minimum buy-in sits...

Liberia is finally getting interoperable mobile money after the Central Bank launches its Inclusive Instant Payment System, which lets Lonestar Cell MTN and Orange Liberia users send cash back and forth instantly instead of dealing with the usual fragmented mess. President Joseph Boakai is doing...

Morocco is dropping $140 million into its startup scene through the Morocco Digital 2030 plan, and Delegate Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni laid out the numbers at the Digital Now Forum in Casablanca. The cash breaks down with $81 million going to venture building for early-stage companies...

Presight is running another round of its AI Accelerator after the first batch apparently crushed it with 10 startups hitting a combined $300 million valuation and landing deals with G42 companies, plus UAE government entities. CEO Thomas Pramotedham says most early-stage AI ventures tank because...

Cisco is pushing what Managing Director Mohanad Abuissa calls a factory setup for AI infrastructure in the UAE, ditching the old model where data centers just handled individual tasks. The company rolled out its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, which bundles compute power, networking gear, and...

Airtel Zambia is dropping $107 million on what they're calling their biggest network upgrade ever, and Managing Director Hussam Baday says the whole thing is about fixing congestion and getting better signals to places that need it most. They're building 406 new cell sites across the country...

Apple pushed back mass production of its Baltra AI chip by another year after whispers suggested the thing would hit manufacturing lines sooner. Broadcom got roped into the network tech side while TSMC handles fab work on 3nm nodes, and the delay reasons remain murky. The company already stocked...

ARCTIC shipped MX-7 thermal paste that handles both regular CPU mounting and direct-die applications on graphics cards, laptops, and console chips. The formula dropped thermal resistance compared to older compounds while staying non-conductive to avoid shorting components, and the thick...

D-Link rolled out Nuclias Unity as a license-free cloud management platform that lets IT teams wrangle switches and access points across multiple sites without paying recurring subscription fees. The system handles everything from single-location shops to massive distributed enterprises through...

Colorful launched three tiny graphics cards that crush NVIDIA's SFF-Ready spec by staying under 18 centimeters long and sticking to exactly two slots thick. The iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Mini OC leads the pack with the RTX 5060 Ti variants behind it in 16-gig and 8-gig flavors, and all three share...