Experts seek trusted, human-centred AI solutions for Nigeria’s healthcare
Experts seek trusted, human-centred AI solutions for Nigeria’s healthcare By Mercy Sawok The Africa Hub for Innovation and Development (AFHID) has called for the development and adoption of trusted, homegrown and human-centred Artificial…...
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Experts seek trusted, human-centred AI solutions for Nigeria’s healthcare
Experts seek trusted, human-centred AI solutions for Nigeria’s healthcare By Mercy Sawok The Africa Hub for Innovation and Development (AFHID) has called for the development and adoption of trusted, homegrown and human-centred Artificial…...
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Egypt’s biggest data grab
In today's edition: South Africa wants automated VAT || Egypt wants real-time loan data || Egypt holds interest rate at 19% || Who secured the bag? 💰
NIGCOMSAT rejects allegations of satellite procurement irregularities, threatens legal action
The Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) has rejected allegations of irregularities in the concluded procurement process for the NIGCOMSAT-2A and NIGCOMSAT-2B satellite programme, describing the claims as false and...
Troops Welfare: FG Launches Armed Forces Personnel Online Discount Shop
The Federal Government has formally launched the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) Personnel Online Discount Shop, a welfare initiative designed to provide serving personnel, veterans and their families with convenient access to essential...
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Shettima At UNGA: We Can Deploy AI To Wage War Or Transform Healthcare, Education, Agriculture
Shettima urges global cooperation to direct artificial intelligence towards human advancement while Nigeria invests in digital infrastructure and innovation.
#UNGA81: Direct AI Towards Humanity’s Good Not Destruction, Tinubu Charges World Leaders
President Bola Tinubu has called for the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence to improve healthcare, education, agriculture, governance and economic productivity at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. Tinubu,...
Meta Connect 2026: Everything Meta announced, from glasses to Muse
Meta also introduced its first smart glasses without a camera, as concerns grow about people being recorded without their knowledge by camera-equipped glasses.
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Dar Ventures taps Plug and Play to expand startup programme across Africa
The partnership will give the programme, DarE, access to Plug and Play’s global network of startups, investors and corporate partners.
Africa’s $30 smartphone goal is becoming harder to achieve
Africa has built the networks. The bigger challenge now is getting affordable smartphones into people’s hands. As component prices rise, the push for a $30 smartphone is getting harder—and so is closing the continent’s mobile internet gap.
Could AI threaten humanity? 8 Africans weigh the risks
As AI systems become more capable of reasoning and carrying out tasks with less human input, concerns are growing about what happens when humans can no longer fully control them.
How Africa’s AI boom is leaving 100 million disabled citizens behind
A 2025 Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) found that persons with disabilities are underrepresented in datasets used to train AI systems.
Kenswitch enters Kenya’s card market with domestic card scheme
The launch expands Kenswitch’s role beyond switching, connecting banks and other financial institutions to route payments.
The $6.8M credit engine hidden inside a Nigerian cassava patch
UfarmX is a credit infrastructure business that evaluates farmer creditworthiness using proprietary data, allowing agro-retailers to extend inputs on credit.
‘Don’t tell me what you studied, show me what you built’: South Africa’s tech new hiring benchmark
The three students represent different milestones along the same trajectory. Together, their experiences highlight why acquiring a technical qualification is only the baseline.