One Regulator or Many? Inside the Bill That Could Rewrite How Nigeria Licenses Its 430 Fintechs Every fintech founder in Nigeria knows the feeling: you build a product that moves money, lends it or invests it, and then discover that three or four agencies each want a say in how it works. A bill moving … Read more
Dropped Calls, Missing Data and ₦20 Credits: MTN’s Five-State Outage Lands in the Middle of a Compensation Fight On Thursday evening, MTN Nigeria’s customers across some of the country’s busiest regions discovered their phones weren’t working properly, and the company’s own explanation, delivered in a short alert, left almost every important question unanswered. MTN posted … Read more
Deepfakes, Hidden Prompts and the 2027 Vote: What NITDA Is Telling Nigerians About AI Risk Nigeria’s technology regulator has spent much of this year delivering the same message in different venues: artificial intelligence is spreading through the economy faster than the safeguards around it, and ordinary users, companies and political actors are going to pay … Read more
What Is the National Digital Postcode in Nigeria? The National Digital Postcode is an 11-character alphanumeric code that identifies one addressable building in Nigeria. The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) launched the National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System in Abuja on October 1, 2026. The Federal Executive Council approved the policy in March 2026. The system is … Read more
Solardẹrọ Foundation Brings Solar Power to Nigerian Classrooms Where the Grid Doesn’t Reach In a country where roughly 70 percent of rural residents live without a reliable connection to the national grid, a Lagos-based social enterprise is trying to solve the problem of darkness after sunset one school bag at a time, while laying groundwork … Read more
Nigeria’s NASDRA EU Launch €2.7m Satellite Project to Boost Food Security Nigeria’s federal government and the European Union have inaugurated a €2.7 million agricultural initiative that uses satellite technology to help farmers make better decisions about what to plant, when to plant it, and how to manage their land as climate pressures increasingly threaten food … Read more
The Nigerian Browser Game That Turned Lagos Itself Into a Million-Player Hit A week ago, almost nobody outside a small circle of Nigerian tech Twitter had heard of Lagos Life. By the end of that same week, more than a million people had created a character, rented a room, and started paying virtual rent every … Read more
Broadcom to Lend Anthropic Up to $42 Billion to Help Finance Its AI Chip Leases Anthropic’s initial public offering filing has pulled back the curtain on one of the more unusual financing arrangements to emerge from the AI industry’s enormous infrastructure buildout: chipmaker Broadcom has agreed to lend the AI company up to $42 billion … Read more
A Tokyo court has delivered Japan’s first legal ruling declaring that a person’s voice is protected under publicity rights, a landmark decision that emerged from a lawsuit filed by one of the country’s most recognizable anime voice actors against TikTok over AI-generated content he says mimics his distinctive baritone. Wednesday’s verdict from the Tokyo District … Read more
Last updated: September 28, 2026 Summary: The Numbers Are Messier Than the Headlines Suggest Nigeria’s tech “brain drain” is one of the most talked-about topics in the country’s tech press, but the hard data on how many developers are actually leaving is thin, contested, and often conflated with a different, larger trend: Nigerians increasingly earning … Read more