Market Trends & Consumer Behaviour
Nigeria ordered the sale of NITEL’s successor. Here’s why it still hasn’t happened Summary AMCON, Nigeria’s asset management agency, has tempered expectations for a quick sale of NatCom Development and Investment Limited (NATCOM) — the company that succeeded NITEL and now trades as ntel — despite a presidential directive earlier in 2025 to divest the […]
Nigeria’s Caring Africa joins Morgan Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures as sole African pick Summary Caring Africa, a Nigerian tech and policy organisation building digital infrastructure for the care economy, has been selected as the only Africa-based participant in Morgan Stanley’s 2025 Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures innovation lab. The organisation’s flagship product, Caring Blocks, is described […]
Only 1 in 100 Africans use 5G despite $28 billion investment Summary New data from the ITU and UNESCO shows that only around 1% of Africans were connected to 5G in 2024 despite roughly $28 billion poured into next-generation mobile networks over the past five years. By end-2024, just over half of mobile connections on […]
How you ran Google ads for the last 20 years is about to change Summary Google has expanded AI Max for Search campaigns globally (rolled out 10 September 2025). AI Max brings automated features — final URL expansion, improved search-term matching, asset optimisation and AI-driven text customisation — that change how search ads match users […]
Africa’s gender funding gap persists; women founders still get just 1 in 10 dollars Summary Africa’s tech funding rebounded strongly in 2025, with more than $2bn raised across 500+ deals by August. Yet the recovery has not been evenly shared: male-led startups captured roughly 75% of funding, while companies with at least one female founder […]
Next Wave: How to plan for Africa’s next technology decade Summary This piece argues that Africa’s technology story so far has been driven largely by entrepreneurial opportunism and global hype cycles. The author calls for a shift towards Strategic Direction — coherent, multi-layered planning across local, regional and continental levels — to make the next […]
For immigrants, this fintech makes credit history as portable as a passport Summary Wale Akanbi, co-founder of Aella, launched Bleyt in 2025 to solve a common immigrant problem: credit histories rarely travel across borders. Bleyt’s app uses AI to pull financial data from local credit providers and bureaus, aggregates traditional and alternative data into a […]
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI Summary OpenAI is intensifying its robotics push, recruiting researchers with expertise in humanoid systems and building a team to develop algorithms that let robots learn through teleoperation and simulation. Recent hires and job listings point to work on teleoperation, high-fidelity simulation (including Nvidia Isaac), sensing and […]
Can BasiGo put 1,000 electric buses on Kenya’s roads by 2027? Summary BasiGo, a Nairobi-based e-mobility startup, aims to have 1,000 battery-powered buses operating in Kenya by 2027 to replace diesel minibus services and cut urban emissions. The company has locally assembled 53 buses and has 27 more in production at its Thika assembly line—Kenya’s […]
Here is how Nigeria made ₦597 billion off your data bill in 2024 Summary Nigeria collected ₦597.65 billion in VAT from the information and communication sector in 2024 — driven largely by telecoms and rising data consumption. That figure marks a 122.31% increase from the ₦268.84 billion recorded in 2022. Data usage almost doubled in […]
