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Energy & LLP just bought into Falcon Corporation after BKM & S Konsult bailed on their stake, and the deal apparently signals that someone still believes Nigeria's gas infrastructure can actually work. Deputy managing director Audrey Joe-Ezigbo said the cash injection helps Falcon push ahead...

Legend Internet just wrapped up its Series 1 commercial paper sale and pulled in nearly 120 percent subscription, which basically means investors wanted way more than what was available. CEO Aisha Abdulaz said the oversubscription shows people actually trust the company's financials and...

Greenwich Merchant Bank grabbed top honors at the FMDQ Gold Awards for having the cleanest compliance record among dealing members operating in Nigeria's fixed-income and derivatives markets. The trophy goes to whoever racks up the fewest violations while sticking to FMDQ's operational rules...

Africa Finance Corporation and Nigerian Exchange threw a two-day workshop in Lagos to teach finance people how to actually fund infrastructure projects through capital markets, and the whole thing centered on Nigeria's nightmare-tier funding gap that could hit 2.3 trillion dollars by 2043. Banji...

Accion Microfinance Bank just opened its 75th location in Kaduna State and spent two days hitting up markets like Abubakar Gumi, Chanchangi, and Kawo to talk up their savings products and loan options before the ribbon cutting. CEO Taiwo Joda said the branch puts banking services right where...

AltBank dropped a package for small businesses at the Kano trade fair that wipes out fees for digital signups and throws in free payment tools plus advisory help for traders across northern Nigeria. Garba Mohammed from the bank said they grabbed a 15 million dollar facility for trade and...

Marble Capital just hit its five-year mark, and CEO Akeem Oyewale talked up how the firm became the first in Nigeria to launch a Shariah-compliant commodities fund approved by the SEC. The company grabbed Islamic Asset Management Firm of the Year trophies in 2022 and 2023, got tagged as the...

Nigeria's social insurance fund boss, Oluwaseun Faleye, showed up at the international trade fair in Lagos and told everyone the agency handles claims when workplace accidents mess people up. The fund went through a bunch of upgrades over the past year with better transparency on processing...

UNICEF teamed up with Lesotho's gender ministry to push the YOMA platform at a youth event in Semonkong, and the whole thing targets herders and other kids stuck in remote spots who normally get zero access to training programs. Deputy Principal Secretary Thae Makhele kicked off the two-day...

Google just dropped 3 billion naira into Nigeria through its charity arm to pump up AI skills and cybersecurity infrastructure. The cash will flow through five partner orgs that are supposed to get university students trained up on advanced AI coursework, run dev challenges that turn concepts...

Telecom companies in Madagascar just agreed to drop internet prices after the Ministry of Digital Development leaned on them about accessibility. Minister Mahefa Andriamampiadana said the cuts will vary based on what each operator can handle financially, and he wants fixed internet plans to stop...

Airtel Nigeria grabbed a tech development trophy at the SERAS awards in Lagos, and the win highlights what their foundation has been doing with digital access projects across the country. The group backed a federal training scheme that got 25,000 young people through tech courses in 46 different...

Media City Qatar just locked in a deal with AlRayan Bank to give its 300-plus licensed companies easier access to banking services. The agreement sets up a dedicated contact person who will help businesses and their employees get accounts sorted without the usual hassle, and both sides are...

Schneider Electric showed up at the Saudi Industrial Transformation expo in Riyadh and flexed its automation gear aimed at factories trying to hit Vision 2030 targets. The company rolled out its AVEVA Unified Operations Center for real-time process monitoring, EcoStruxure Automation Expert for...

S&P Global just bumped Telkom's credit rating up a notch to BB+ from BB, and the move tracks with South Africa's own sovereign upgrade that dropped a bit earlier. The telecom company sits close enough to the government that its rating basically follows whatever happens with the national fiscal...

AWS rolled out a preview of Interconnect multicloud, which lets companies hook their Amazon VPCs directly to other cloud providers without the usual DIY networking headache. Google Cloud is the first partner on board, and Microsoft Azure will join sometime in 2026. The whole point is giving...

Integrity360 just bought Redshift, a cybersecurity firm based in Johannesburg, and the deal stacks on top of their earlier pickups of Grove Group and Nclose. The acquisition pushes their South African headcount past 230 people spread across Johannesburg and Cape Town, and those offices double as...

Varmilo just dropped foot pedals for gaming, and preorders are live at 39 bucks per unit. The lineup has three configs: a single-pedal version with three keys, another single-pedal model packing four keys, and a multi-pedal setup with four separate pedals. All of them use Cherry silent black...

Asus just teased a white-themed Mini-ITX motherboard under its ROG line, and the preview shot shows that signature 45-degree angled heatsink on the lower-left side. That same design element appears on the STRIX B850-I GAMING WIFI, which runs a 10+2+1 power phase setup and comes with two M.2...

AMD basically leaked its own hardware by shoving a Ryzen 7 9850X3D into driver support pages without saying anything official. The chip showed up next to other Zen 5 desktop parts with 3D V-Cache, but there is zero spec sheet or press release backing it up. Data miners caught the listing the...