2024 admissions are underway and several Nigerian schools are using only online screening methods for admissions: See such schools here ..read more

The University of Ibadan (UI) has officially announced the commencement of the Post UTME & DE screening for 2024/2025. See all steps & fees ..read more

The myth: The government desperately needs money to fund a massive deficit budget and wants the money in your dormant account. It’s a fabulous story, but it’s not true ..read more

“Most of us do not have jobs, so the [legal] cost is a hindrance,” one of the ex-employees told TechCabal ..read more

In today’s edition: Hope PSB hit by cyberattack, seeks to recover ₦6.5 billion lost funds || Airtel Africa records $31 million profit || Ticketmaster acquires Quicket to expand in Africa || Funding Tracker ..read more

The Future is Female Mentorship Programme, organised by media communications company, Allison, has announced applications for the fifth edition of its flagship program. Applications to the programme close on July 31, 2024. Launched at the peak of COVID in 2020, The Future is Female Mentorship Programme has trained over 100 African female tech founders in ..read more

“On about July 15, 2024, there was unauthorised access to the Plaintiff’s banking platform, following which huge sums of money were transferred fraudulently from the plaintiff’s banking platform to certain beneficiaries' accounts ..read more

Internet service providers in Nigeria are facing an existential crisis with rising operating cost making it difficult to continue to operate ..read more

Intron Health, a Nigeria AI company that provides speech-to-text transcription tools for healthcare workers, has raised $1.6 million in a pre-seed funding round. The startup will use the capital injection to hire more employees, deepen its research efforts, and strengthen its cloud-native and on-prem capabilities. Launched in 2020 by Dr Tobi Olatunji, Intron Health helps healthcare professionals enter medical records by converting speech into text. This solution is important because doctors in many African countries attend to hundreds of patients daily and have a lot of paperwork to deal ..read more

After a difficult 2023 in which losses mounted after currency devaluation in some of its key markets, Airtel Africa returned to the blue in the first quarter of 2024. The telecoms firm, which operates in 14 African countries, reported $31 million in profit after tax, compared to a loss of $151 million in Q1 2023. Still, macroeconomic headwinds persist. The company’s revenue declined 16.1% to $1.15 billion due to currency devaluation and rising fuel costs in Nigeria. The telco will work on cost reduction and energy-saving initiatives to reduce network costs.   Key takeaways: Airtel A ..read more