Nigeria
Nigeria: Pantami Advises Nigerian Startups to Think Global
Prof. Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy on Friday (February 17, 2023) urged Nigerian Startups to keep being innovative towards standing ...
Ghana
Ghana’s Debt Restructuring to Hurt Banks’ Capital -Fitch
Ghanaian banks’ capital will still weaken significantly as a result of Ghana’s sovereign domestic debt restructuring, despite the improved terms for creditors after ...
Africa
Africa: Gbenga Oyebode Appointed as Board Chair African Philanthropy Forum
African Philanthropy Forum (APF) has appointed Gbenga Oyebode as its new Board Chair. Gbenga Oyebode is the founder and Of Counsel at Aluko ...
Africa
Africa: Businesses in Africa Plan to Increase Cybersecurity Budgets by 11% in the next 3 years – Survey
A survey of business representatives conducted by Kaspersky for the IT Security Economics report found that IT budgets for cybersecurity are set to increase ...
Regulatory
Uganda: AMCUL, Fin-Tech Stakeholders Dialogue On Regulatory Environment
Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Limited (AMCUL) in collaboration with other Fin-Tech Stakeholders held a dialogue on how to achieve a progressive regulatory environment ...
News
Nigeria: CBN Authorises Banks to Release N200 Notes
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has directed commercial banks to adhere to President Buhari’s directive to make available ...
Ghana
Ghana Inflation Dips, Debt Exchange Threatens Banks’ Capital
Ghana’s headline inflation rate declined to 53.6% year on year in January 2023 after hitting a more than two-decade high of 54.1% in ...
News
Nigeria: Cellulant’s Payment Service Solution Provider Licence Gets Renewed by Central Bank of Nigeria
Cellulant’s digital payments platform, Tingg- enables businesses to seamlessly accept and make payments offline and online The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ...
Ghana
Ghana: Over 8 million Ghanaians have not attempted to link their Ghana Cards to SIM – Minister
Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has revealed that, there are a total of 42,451,296 SIMs including newly registered ones in Ghana’s system. However, ...
News
Rwanda Up 47 Places in New Global Internet Speed Report
Rwanda made the biggest leap in fixed broadband speeds, with the result that its position in the global rankings raised by 47 places, ...