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26/12/2025

This moment feels bigger than the airstrikes themselves. Bigger than the Christmas Day timing, bigger than the words that grabbed attention.

It shows a change in how Nigeria is being talked about and treated by a major world power, and that change will have effects long after the smoke clears in Sokoto.

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26/12/2025

Beyond the bombs: The hidden costs of US military strikes in Nigeria

This moment feels bigger than the airstrikes themselves. Bigger than the Christmas Day timing, bigger than the words that grabbed attention. It shows a change in how Nigeria is being talked about and treated by a major world power, and that change will have effects long after the smoke clears in Sokoto. On the surface, the story looks simple. US forces, acting at Nigeria’s request, hit Islamic State targets in northwestern Nigeria....

This opinion piece looks at US military strikes in Nigeria and how Trump’s comments on religion could affect security, unity, and future.

26/12/2025

24/12/2025

How African founders build community before revenue

Most startup stories you hear follow a familiar script. Someone has an idea. They raise money. They build a product. Users come later. But across Africa, the order is often flipped. Many African founders start with people, not products. Conversations, WhatsApp groups, Twitter threads, offline meetups. Long before there is revenue, sometimes even before there is a clear business model, there is already a community forming....

Most startup stories you hear follow a familiar script. Someone has an idea. They raise money. They build a product. Users come later. But across Africa, the order is often flipped. Many African founders start with people, not products. Conversations, WhatsApp groups, Twitter threads, offline meetup...

24/12/2025

8 lessons from failed African startups and what they teach us

Startup failure is usually spoken about in whispers. If it is spoken about at all. We celebrate funding rounds, flashy launches, and rapid growth. We share screenshots of dashboards going up and to the right. But the startups that quietly shut down, pivot into something unrecognizable, or simply fade away often disappear without a trace. In Africa, this silence is even louder....

Learn the lessons from failed African startups, not to assign blame, and not to discourage anyone, but to understand patterns.

23/12/2025

WASSMAS opens applications for $10,000 Grant for West African agro-entrepreneurs

The West African Support for Small and Mid-Scale Agro Startup (WASSMAS) has opened applications for its Agriculture Grant programme, offering funding of up to $10,000 to support small and mid-scale agro-entrepreneurs across West Africa. The initiative is aimed at strengthening agricultural productivity, improving food security, and enabling sustainable agribusiness growth in the region. The grant targets entrepreneurs operating across the agricultural value chain, including crop farming, livestock production, fish farming, agro-processing, and integrated farming systems....

18/12/2025

Paystack revives Consumer App, Zap, 8 months after $190,000 fine

African payments processor acquired by Stripe, Paystack revives Consumer App, Zap, reintegrating the service into its checkout infrastructure less than a year after a clash with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The relaunch marks a strategic recovery for the Lagos-based fintech, which was hit with a 250 million naira ($190,000) fine eight months ago. Regulators had penalised the firm for allegedly operating Zap, a peer-to-peer transfer service with deposit-taking capabilities, outside the scope of its existing licenses....

African payments processor, Paystack, revives Consumer App, Zap, reintegrating the service into its checkout infrastructure.

17/12/2025

VOLZ closes $5m in Series A, Algeria’s largest funding round in local currency

Algerian travel-tech startup, VOLZ, closes $5m in Series A (600 million dinars) to strengthen its product offerings within the country and expand into new markets across North and West Africa. The funding round was led by a group of private investors, headed by Tell Group, a financial services company. It saw participation from Groupe Industriel Babahoum Algérie (GIBA), a conglomerate widely recognised for its Guedila mineral water brand....

Algerian travel-tech startup, VOLZ, closes $5m in Series A (600 million dinars) to strengthen its product offerings within the country.