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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HPE just dumped a massive networking upgrade that merges tech from Aruba and the Juniper acquisition they closed five months back, and the whole thing is built for AI workloads running at scale. The company rolled out unified AIOps tools and shared hardware between both platforms, plus they...

OKX threw open a new UAE office after grinding out a full year with its Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority license, and the crypto exchange is doubling down on the Middle East with over 100 people running regional ops. The company has been stacking retail and institutional customers since they...

e& Egypt just locked down another year with Viu to keep pumping Arabic movies and Korean dramas to its premium customers like Emerald and Hekaya subscribers. The telecom company made the call at GITEX Global after seeing how much people ate up the content during their first partnership round...

Fractal Design released the Epoch XL mid-tower case that fits cards stretching out to 425mm and can hold either a 280mm or 360mm radiator up front or on top. The thing ships with three Momentum 14 fans already installed, and you can cram in seven 120mm fans total if you really want to go wild...

TEAMGROUP dropped the PD40, a tiny external SSD that weighs 22 grams and hits 4000 MB/s read speeds with 3500 MB/s writes through USB4 Type-C. The thing comes in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB sizes and basically feels like carrying around a flash drive instead of a chunky external storage brick. The drive...

Transcend told its distributors that SanDisk and Samsung stopped sending NAND flash chips their way since October, and the storage company is staring down massive shortages for SSDs, memory cards, and USB sticks through the fourth quarter. The supply crunch hit both NAND and DRAM because data...

AMD dropped a write-up on how they want to build the next wave of embedded hardware, and they're pushing three main things: better processing power, rock-solid connectivity, and security baked into the chips themselves. The company thinks these pieces need to work together instead of being...

Eidos Montréal just axed another round of workers, and this time it looks like they killed the Legacy of Kain project those devs were on. The studio already canned a Deus Ex game last year and cut 97 people, then dropped 75 more recently while shutting down other stuff they had going. Pretty...

British American Tobacco Zimbabwe just lost both its managing director, Kenneth Gitonga, and finance director Lucy Irungu, with Rumbidzai Hondora and Tumisang Lebogang taking over next month. The company had a rough year, posting a $7.1 million loss after bringing in $9 million profit the year...

Atlantic Music Group bumped Dave Rocco up to Chief Creative Officer after he spent the past year running visual campaigns for acts like Cardi B, FKA twigs, and Don Toliver. The guy came over from Universal Music Group, where he handled creative stuff across multiple divisions, and before that he...

Beatdapp dropped a trust and safety platform that goes way beyond its usual streaming fraud detection gig by bundling identity checks, AI music detection, bot spotting, and account hijacking prevention into one system. The Vancouver company raised $17 million earlier this year and is pitching...

Cher locked down her half of Sonny and Cher royalties after a judge ruled that her 1978 divorce settlement trumps copyright law termination rules. Mary Bono tried yanking the singer's cut by claiming heirs could reclaim rights under federal copyright provisions, but the court sided with Cher and...