Africa's Tech Future, Today.
The Yaoundé Declaration asks African states to host all critical government data locally by 2030. What the data hosting target covers and who could benefit.
BPE website backups holding database credentials sat in a public folder for days, a researcher says. What was exposed and what Nigeria's privatisation agency must do.
The NCC device checker now screens new phones before they join Nigerian networks. Here is how *315# works, who is exempt, and why importers carry the burden.
The National Identity Management Commission has reaffirmed that Nigeria's national identity database is hosted locally within the country and managed entirely by internal staff. As the agency scales enrolment toward a 95 per cent national coverage target, it is implementing local data hosting and user consent management tools across its identity authentication services.
Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is expanding its enterprise footprint across Africa following a decade of profitable growth. The company is targeting large-scale institutional contracts across banking, central government, and critical national infrastructure.
Former banker Watson Matsa founded eSusFarm Africa to bridge the gap between traditional banking frameworks and smallholder agriculture. By leveraging soil, weather, and crop data, the platform creates dynamic risk management tools designed around seasonal earnings rather than rigid monthly schedules.
Meta Platforms has filed an appeal against a judicial decision preventing the tech giant from forcing Nigerian consumers to consent to ad tracking and behavioural profiling. The legal battle underscores escalating tensions between multinational technology corporations and African regulatory authorities over data privacy rights, platform monetization, and market dominance.
Meta is challenging a regulatory ruling that prohibits the social media giant from making ad-tracking consent mandatory for Nigerian users. The legal battle highlights intensifying scrutiny surrounding big tech data collection and user privacy protections across African jurisdictions.
Most African data protection statutes borrow the same structure. Knowing that structure tells a founder what they will be asked for long before a regulator asks.
Local cloud capacity is growing. Whether to use it is a legal question as often as a technical one.
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