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Yobe State locked down a deal with the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency to get the Muhammadu Buhari International Cargo Airport in Damaturu ready for actual commercial flights. Managing Director Farouq Ahmed Umar signed for NAMA, while Commissioner Muhammad Muhammad Bara and Permanent...

Lagos-based Optimus AI Labs wants to fix customer service nightmares at Nigerian banks by dropping an AI-powered support platform that handles queries without making people wait 40 minutes to talk to a human. CEO Lanre Basamta said the system uses natural language processing to resolve problems...

Abia State Governor Alex Otti broke ground on a 7.5MVA substation project in Umuahia with the Niger Delta Power Holding Company handling construction under the National Integrated Power Project. The build includes a kilometer of 33kV line, 1.2 kilometers of 11kV line, two 300kVA distribution...

Nigeria's Joint Tax Board rebranded itself as the Joint Revenue Board and dropped a fresh logo at their meeting in Abuja, with Chairman Zacch Adedeji saying the switch represents a bigger push toward unified revenue collection across federal and state systems. The rebrand follows legislation...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu told his cabinet to start working on a blue economy plan that turns Nigeria's 853-kilometer coastline and waterways into actual money instead of just sitting there doing nothing. Vice President Kashim Shettima delivered the message at a meeting with National Institute...

Nigeria's cabinet just signed off on buying 200 electric buses for 58 billion naira through the National Automotive Design and Development Council, and they greenlit a 187 billion naira headquarters for the Bank of Industry at Eko Atlantic City. Minister of State for Industry John Eno said they...

Nigeria's tax collectors sent a thank-you note to Vintage Press Limited for actually paying their bills on time, and the Federal Inland Revenue Service called out the publisher of The Nation Newspapers for solid VAT compliance and accurate tax filings. Tax Controller Afolabi A.O. signed off on...

Nigeria pumped 71.5 million liters of petrol per day through the system after NNPC imported extra stock to cover Christmas demand and clear a backlog of vessels that got delayed from the previous month. The spike followed weaker September and October supply levels that sat below what the country...

Kogi State Governor Ahmed Ododo rolled out plans for the Ajaokuta Economic City free trade zone with Chinese and Turkish investors at a meeting in Abuja, and the project is supposed to pull in 500 million dollars per year while creating 50,000 jobs. The governor thanked President Bola Tinubu for...

Zain KSA teamed up with KoçDigital to push Industry 4.0 tech into Saudi factories, and the deal is supposed to help manufacturers modernize their operations while fitting into Vision 2030 goals. KoçDigital brings Platform 360 with use cases for supply chain optimization and quality control...

stc Bahrain is hooking up Bahrain Development Bank with AWS cloud management and cybersecurity stuff as part of a deal to beef up tech infrastructure for the financial sector. Chief Business Officer Hesham Mustafa said the move is supposed to help BDB run things faster and more securely while...

Mozambique's telecom regulator INCM kicked off training for their ThinkLab startup incubator program with sessions from the ITU and their own stats department. Mohamed Ba from the International Telecommunication Union talked about how incubators fit into digital transformation and what...

The African Telecommunications Union and African Subsea Ecosystem Forum ran a workshop for 240 people from 42 countries about how Africa depends on underwater fiber cables that keep breaking. Secretary General John Omo said the cables carry up to 99 percent of international data traffic, and...

Kenya hit 60.2 million mobile data subscriptions by the end of September, and the Communications Authority says nearly four out of five connections are mobile broadband. Most people are running 4G, which makes up almost 85 percent of broadband users, while 5G subscribers are burning through 40...

Bayobab just hired Peter Nwankwo to run commercial stuff for their fiber division starting next year, and he brings over two decades of telecom experience to the gig. The guy worked on MTN's fiber-to-the-home push and helped cut costs by renegotiating supplier deals. He also ran cable landing...

Eutelsat pulled in 670 million euros from a rights issue that got way more interest than they expected, and the money is going toward their low Earth orbit satellite stuff plus the IRIS² constellation they want to build. The share sale moved about 496 million new shares at 1.35 euros each, and...

Zambia just threw 100 million kwacha at Zambia Railways Limited to fix up their busted rail system, and the EU is kicking in over 50 million euros to help repair tracks and upgrade signals on main routes. The cash is supposed to get ZRL out of barely functioning mode and turn it into something...

Kenya just got a new electronics factory at Sarin Industrial Park near Nairobi, and a bunch of government people showed up for the opening. Principal Secretary Eng. John Tanui and Trade Cabinet Secretary Hon. Lee Kinyanjui were there with officials from investment and immigration departments...

Acer dropped a white version of its Predator Bifrost graphics card based on AMD's RX 9070 XT chip, and it's selling for around 855 bucks through their site and partner stores. The card comes with three custom fans that use a counter-spin setup and dual ball bearings to keep things quiet while...

Scythe tossed out the Kotetsu Mark 4, which is a compact single-tower cooler that hits entry-level builds and mainstream rigs without taking up half the case. The thing uses four copper heat pipes with direct contact on the CPU and pushes air through aluminum fins with a 120mm fan that keeps...