Ghana
MTN extends fee waiver on 100 cedis MoMo for another 3 months
Telecommunications giants, MTN Ghana has extended its fee waiver for mobile money transactions of 100 cedis and less for three more months. In ...
Startup
Meet the MEST Africa Challenge national winners, so far
Startups from Ethiopia, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Rwanda and Ghana have been named country winners of the MEST Africa Challenge, earning their places in ...
Nigeria
OPay Shuts Down ORide, Others in Nigeria
OPay, African Fintech startup, has announced it is suspending some of its Nigerian operations including ORide, OCar, and OExpress, excluding its payment operation, ...
Africa
The Fate Of Uber Cash In Africa As e-Hailing Giant Dumps Fintech Dream
By now, it’s no longer news that global ride-hailing giant, Uber Technologies Inc, has abandoned or, at least, suspended the original plan that ...
Nigeria
Mobile payments in Nigeria have grown 391% in 1 year
Mobile payments in Nigeria are growing at an incredible pace according to data from the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS). Latest data shows ...
Ghana
MTN Ghana Continues to Fight Against Regulator’s Attempts to Restrict Operations
MTN Ghana has initiated a new move in seeking a judicial review of Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA)’s decision to declare the telecom ...
Nigeria
FX LIQUIDITY: Nigerian banks vulnerable, Moody’s warns
Global rating agency, Moody’s, has issued fresh warnings that Nigerian banks are facing foreign currency liquidity pressures of the type seen during the ...
Nigeria
NCC Announces Virtual Hackathon to Reward Covid-19 Tech-driven Solutions
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has opened entry for adaptable digital solutions for addressing the impacts of pandemic and epidemic prone-diseases from technology hubs, ...
News
Nigerian entrepreneurs get £5,000 funding for innovative ideas on COVID-19
The funds were provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering project CARE (COVID Africa Rapid Entrepreneur) initiative in response to the coronavirus pandemic. ...
Nigeria
Senate summons Minister of Finance, CBN, EFCC, ICPC, others
The Senate on Wednesday summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, to brief it on measures put in place ...