Nigeria has taken a big step toward closing its digital divide thanks to a new rural connectivity initiative from Huawei and MTN Nigeria. On December 5, 2025, the two companies announced the world’s first commercial deployment of the “RuralCow” solution…
In 2020, a handful of Nigerian entrepreneurs reached a painful realisation. They had seen many talented children across Africa falling behind in school, not because they lacked potential, but because the broader system was failing them. Textbooks were outdated, teachers…
Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare has confirmed that a service interruption on the morning of December 5, 2025, briefly disrupted access to major global sites, including Zoom and LinkedIn. The company says service has now been restored, and the outage was…
On December 2, 2025, technology giant Apple issued a new set of cyber threat notifications to users across 84 countries, as part of its ongoing campaign to protect people from digital surveillance and espionage. The company stated that, in total,…
Senior reporter Frank Eleanya has been named “Tech Journalist of the Year” at the AOT Lagos 7.0 conference, held on Thursday, 4 December 2025. The award is part of the event’s Tech Ecosystem Awards and honours journalists whose work has…
Global tech giant Meta has just inked several new commercial agreements with a list of prominent news publishers to provide real-time content for its AI chatbot, Meta AI. The tie-ups, revealed on Friday, cover deals with notable outlets including USA…
In December 2025, what began as a two-day gathering in Abuja evolved into a wave of excitement, fresh ideas, and renewed hope across Nigerian classrooms. The Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN)’s Girls’ National Summit and STEM Exhibition 2025 has…
Nigeria, with its young and growing population, was ideally positioned to ride the wave of global AI-driven growth. Roughly 70 percent of citizens are under 35 years, and about 3.5 million enter the labour market annually, a demographic composition that…
In a move to ease the anticipated surge of commuters to the annual concert festival, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has extended the operating hours of its rail services ahead of The Experience Lagos 2025. The publicly announced…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has achieved a major milestone by delivering digital skills training to more than one million Nigerians under its partnership with Renewed Hope Initiative. The agency disclosed this achievement during the closing ceremony of…
Global money‑transfer platform Wise has taken a major step in its African ambitions by receiving conditional approval from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to operate within South Africa. This milestone marks Wise’s first regulated presence on the continent and…
Nigeria’s communications regulator and leading telecom operators are calling for urgent, unified action to build Africa’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. Their warning: if the continent does not act now to build local capacity, it risks being left behind in the new…
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s telecom sector, including regulators, operators, cloud providers and data-centre developers, have sounded a warning: Africa must collaborate now to build the infrastructure needed for an AI-driven future. Without decisive, coordinated action, they say, the continent risks becoming…
In a continent where the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector has long battled delays and inefficiencies in international payments, Bluebulb is emerging as a game-changer. By offering a modern, efficient and compliant financial platform, Bluebulb is enabling FMCG companies to…
The 2025 edition of Microsoft Ignite 2025 has thrown down the gauntlet for how businesses worldwide — from global enterprises to small firms in Lagos or Abuja — will use artificial intelligence going forward. With a slew of new tools,…
