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@wizaj @twifintech @NikMilanovic @dsem221 Congratulations Wiza!

Big day for us at @twifintech - super proud of this team, @NikMilanovic and @dsem221. 5 years ago I joined Nik on this journey hosting Africa events, and over the last few months Paschal Okeke has taken that to a new level. We're only getting started! axios.com/pro/fintech-de…

Ghana demands compensation for slavery in landmark UN vote bbc.in/4rRUjny

Paystack, take risk and succeed

@TheOAPod Lmaoooo!

Nigeria will launch a key digital platform on Friday to streamline imports and exports in a "game changer" for trade in the West African nation, Minister of Trade and Investment Jumoke Oduwole told Reuters. reuters.com/world/africa/n…

HISTORY MADE AT THE UNITED NATIONS The United Nations General Assembly has adopted resolution A/80/L.48, declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement as the Gravest Crime against Humanity. Standing on the Right Side of History

Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving empty seats and broken dreams. “A punch to the heart,” said one woman who lost her scholarship. on.wsj.com/3Pwmprd

Making a product open-source can be altruistic. But it can also be a competitive tactic to undercut revenue that would have flowed to the rival products. If those rivals are financially weaker, then they can't effectively compete with you. That's Meta's Llama LLM in a nutshell.

Didn't expect OpenAI to bow out of AI video creation so early. But AI video probably consumes a lot of computing resources that could be better allocated to other products. Regardless, it's now ceding the market to Adobe, Google, RunwayML, Kling AI, et al. wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

Women in Jos, Nigeria, have formed an all-female vigilante group to tackle violence, confronting drug dealers and thieves armed with nothing but whips and ID cards

Inside the N1.6bn UNILAG hostel that became part of crisis it was built to solve INVESTIGATION: When the N1.6B Gbajabiamila Hall was opened at @UnilagNigeria in 2024, students hoped it would ease the housing crisis. With rooms priced at N950K and bed spaces at N710K, it mirrors the cost of private hostels despite being publicly funded and maintained with taxpayers' money. This BusinessDay investigation uncovers how UNILAG turned a public intervention project into a commercial venture. Read the full BusinessDay Investigations report below. businessday.ng/investigation/…

i've been thinking a lot about how nvidia has become the financial kingmaker of the AI industry my latest story for @WSJ is a deep dive on this topic, filled with examples of how the company wields its balance sheet as an instrument of power link below: wsj.com/tech/nvidia-ai…

The amount of money here is tiny. But the damage to journalistic credibility is huge. It creates the impression that under-the-table payments to journalists are normal in South Africa. It is not normal, and it needs to be stamped out entirely. Just say no.

Unitree filed for a $610M IPO on the STAR Market last week. Revenue went from $23M to $248M in two years. 60% gross margins. 35% net profit. As promised, we wrote a quick take on the Unitree IPO. Unitree's cost discipline is real and we wouldn't count them out. But the gap between the hardware and the intelligence is also very real. And when we visited another humanoid maker, Kepler, in Shanghai last fall, we also learned that what makes a robot look amazing on stage is not what makes it useful in a factory. Different design priorities entirely. I personally don't think any of these stops the stock from going parabolic in the short term, but longer term, it's got its work cut out.

If there is a status attached to height – and there is – then 5ft 11in doesn’t quite measure up. Six foot is manly, commanding. Five-11 is acceptable, unremarkable. But a near-miss. It’s the upper end of almost, the FT's Alex Bilmes writes. ⁠ft.trib.al/Cy2ronS

“After taking everything we had … they want to colonize us again.” Brazil’s president Lula is warning that the global race for critical minerals could repeat a long history of colonial extraction.

The European Union upgrades its relationship with Nigeria and announces significant new Global Gateway investments | EEAS eeas.europa.eu/delegations/ni…

'Iyanu' Creator Roye Okupe's 'Malika: Warrior Queen' Feature Film Boarded by Singapore's August Media Group (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/glob…

Moniepoint didn’t buy Orda for payments. While that is the obvious read, I think it only scratches the surface. Moniepoint already processes about ₦8 billion a day at Nigerian restaurants. Annualised, that is roughly ₦2.92 trillion—just 0.71% of the ₦412 trillion it processed