For many young Nigerians, banking is now largely digital. From paying online vendors and settling school fees to splitting bills, running businesses on social media and sending money to family and friends, many everyday financial activities now happen through a smartphone. Speed, convenience, free transfers, and rewards remain important reasons customers choose and stay with digital financial platforms. But as more of their financial lives move online, another factor is becoming increasingly important: security. The financial services ecosystem continues to expand rapidly, and with that growth comes a greater need to protect users from fraud and other digital threats. According…
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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has strengthened Nigeria’s push for a globally competitive digital economy through strategic partnerships with two Canadian technology companies, Goose FL and Fireflies AI. The agency signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the companies during the Nigeria–Canada Investment Forum and the Nigeria Investment Economic Conference in Toronto, Canada, in a move aimed at attracting technology expertise, innovation and investment into Nigeria’s digital ecosystem. The agreements, witnessed by NITDA’s Director-General, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, are expected to support the development of solutions that can expand financial inclusion, strengthen Nigeria’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and accelerate the…
Airtel Nigeria is closing in on 18,000 cell sites as the telecommunications operator intensifies its nationwide network rollout, with more than 1,000 new sites being added annually to extend high-speed connectivity to communities previously underserved by digital infrastructure. The expansion underscores the scale of Airtel’s infrastructure commitment to Nigeria’s digital economy, with the operator’s network now reaching all 774 Local Government Areas in the country. More than 99 per cent of Airtel Nigeria’s sites are 4G-enabled, while the company continues to deploy additional sites, expand capacity and upgrade existing infrastructure to meet rising demand for mobile connectivity. According to Airtel…
By Rommy Imah A New Measure of Financial-Sector Leadership The latest ranking by CFA Society Nigeria has placed Access at the forefront of Nigeria’s financial talent ecosystem, identifying the Group as the country’s largest employer of CFA candidates and underscoring the growing importance of professional expertise in determining the strength and competitiveness of financial institutions. Published under CFA Society Nigeria’s Where Nigeria’s Finance Professionals Work series in a national daily, the ranking shows that 82 CFA candidates are currently employed by Access, more than twice the 38 recorded by the next-ranked institution and the highest figure among organisations across Nigeria’s…
MTN Nigeria has unveiled the Y’ello Street Museum beneath Falomo Bridge in Lagos, an immersive experience that chronicles 25 years of connectivity, culture, innovation and shared experiences, as the company marks its silver jubilee in Nigeria. Designed as a walk-through journey across five generations of network technology, from 1G to 5G, the museum brings together technology, campaign artefacts, cultural memorabilia, iconic devices and personal stories that reflect how connectivity has transformed the way Nigerians communicate, work, create, learn and engage with the world. Located beneath one of Lagos’ most recognisable landmarks, the museum transforms the urban space into a living…
The Google News Initiative (GNI) has selected six Nigerian independent news creators to join the Sub-Saharan Africa cohort of the Emerging News Voices Growth Lab. The news creators are Onlinebanker, Adetunji Films, More Branches TV, Wearegst, Iswellthecapitalist and The Republic. They are among roughly 20 emerging news creators from across the region taking part in the multi-month virtual programme, which runs through late September 2026. Creator-led digital journalism is changing how Nigerians, especially younger audiences, find and consume news. Social-first channels and digital-native platforms increasingly drive news discovery, yet the newsrooms behind them often run lean, with limited access to…
SeerBit, a leading pan-African payments company, has announced its integration with PayPal, enabling merchants across its supported markets to accept payments directly from PayPal users at checkout. Through this integration, customers shopping on SeerBit-powered platforms can now choose PayPal alongside cards, bank transfers, and mobile money, while allowing merchants to manage all transactions in one place. The feature enhances buyer confidence, reduces cart abandonment, and improves conversion rates; all key factors in global e-commerce success. This integration comes at a crucial time when cross-border digital trade across Africa is accelerating, fuelled by rising internet adoption, a surge in e-commerce activity…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged road construction companies, contractors, engineers and other stakeholders to strengthen coordination and adopt proactive measures to prevent damage to fibre-optic cables during road construction, rehabilitation and other civil works across the country. The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida, made the call on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at a stakeholders’ workshop on the protection of fibre-optic cables held at the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Office of the National Security Adviser, Abuja. Maida stressed that Nigeria’s drive to expand and modernise physical infrastructure must go hand in…
By Eyitayo Quadri Much of my working life is spent thinking about what can go wrong and/or how it can be done better in a safe way. That is the quiet vocation of a risk officer: to sit in the room where decisions are made, to ask the unpopular question, to imagine the failure before it arrives and to price the danger no one else wants to name. Over the years, that work has taught me a humbling truth. The largest risks a financial institution faces are rarely the ones on the spreadsheet. They do not live in the market…
The Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), Zacch Adedeji, has dismissed online reports linking the NRS to an imaginary fraud related to the Frontier Exploration Fund, calling it sponsored fake news. The report had alleged the transfer of $279 million from the Fund’s account to some unnamed accounts and claimed that Adedeji and the NRS were in the know of the ‘illegal’ movement of money. According to the report, the alleged fraud had put Adedeji under pressure with stakeholders calling for forensic audit of the Fund’s account. But in his reaction via telephone, Adedeji dismissed the said report…