Abdulrasheed Abubakar

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  Startups

  Chowdeck hits nearly $1 million in Black Friday food delivery sales

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  3rd December 2025

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  News

  AXIAN rebrands fintech arm in digital banking push across Africa

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  26th November 2025

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  Funding

  Bluworks, Egyptian HR automation startup, raises $1 million for regional expansion

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  23rd November 2025

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  Startups

  Backed by $350K, Fusepay takes aim at Seychelles’ slow, paper-heavy payments system

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  21st November 2025

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  Healthcare, Startups

  Nigeria’s drug supply chain is broken. OneHealth thinks PillFinda can fix it

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  19th November 2025

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  Venture Capital

  A new liquidity index wants to solve African VCs’ biggest data problem

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  18th November 2025

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  Venture Capital

  Nigeria launches ₦50m VC grant to turn student ideas into scalable ventures

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th November 2025

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  Education

  Every click is a gamble: Nigerian graduates bear the cost as NYSC’s portal glitches

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  13th November 2025

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  News

  Half of South Africa’s frontline workers have no savings as living costs soar

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  12th November 2025

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  Startups

  Chowdeck’s new ‘Bills’ feature and Mira migration show its super app ambitions

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  10th November 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence

  AI optimism is sky-high in Africa: 92% of Nigerians and Ghanaians say it matters daily

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  6th November 2025

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  Telecoms

  From Olorunnimbe to Maida: Meet the new NCC board that will shape Nigeria’s $75bn telecom sector

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  28th October 2025

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  Companies

  NVIDIA invests in Cassava Technologies to tap Africa’s fast-growing digital economy

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  24th October 2025

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  FinTech, Startups

  This YC-backed startup wants to be the control centre for African business finance

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  24th October 2025

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  Artificial Intelligence

  OpenAI brings ChatGPT’s cheapest plan to Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  23rd October 2025

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  Acquisitions

  How Canal+ quietly won Africa’s TV crown  and what it means for DStv, GOtv, and Showmax

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  21st October 2025

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  Ecommerce

  Africa’s next billion-dollar startups will come from fixing the invisible systems of commerce

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  21st October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  Experts push for new funds, hubs to unlock Africa’s creative potential

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th October 2025

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  Collections, Creators, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  Africa’s creators need homegrown platforms, not just global stages

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  How APIs are building the backbone of Africa’s financial ecosystem

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  16th October 2025

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  Collections, Moonshot, Moonshot Conversations

  Why broken payment systems are the hidden taxes slowing Africa’s growth

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  15th October 2025

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  Startups

  After losing a $50,000 Upwork contract, this Nigerian founder built a startup to fix global hiring bias

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  10th October 2025

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  Funding

  Cameroon’s REasy raises $1.8m to fix how Africa’s importers pay suppliers

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  9th October 2025

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  Startups

  Mali’s OKO raises fresh capital to protect Africa’s farmers from climate shocks

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  1st October 2025

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  FinTech

  Nigeria’s lenders have dodged credit bureau reporting for years; Lendsqr just made it free

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  1st October 2025

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  Startups

  Neibar, the app fostering gifting of pre-owned items in African communities

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  30th September 2025

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  News

  Mastercard Foundation names Sewit Ahderom as next CEO; here is what it means for Africa

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  30th September 2025

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  Startups

  Google taps Nigeria’s Infinity Health Africa for first AI for GovTech accelerator

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  25th September 2025

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  Startups

  AgoraVisa believes not enough African top talent is immigrating

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  18th September 2025

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  News

  Nigeria’s Caring Africa joins Morgan Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures program

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  16th September 2025

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  FinTech

  For immigrants, this fintech makes credit history as portable as a passport

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  15th September 2025

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  Startups

  Alami Capital’s LaunchPad targets funding gap for African women-led startups

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  12th September 2025

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  Funding

  Morocco’s Nucleon Security raises $3.5m to scale Zero Trust AI across Africa

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  12th September 2025

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  FinTech

  Afriex expands to Asia to tap booming cross-border payments market

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  29th July 2025

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  Consumer Tech

  Mobile network with best call rates in Nigeria in July 2025

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  25th July 2025

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  News

  AfriLabs backs 280,000 entrepreneurs, bets big on Africa’s $1 trillion digital future

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  24th July 2025

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  FinTech

  Moniepoint, PiggyVest, M-KOPA, Interswitch named among world’s top 300 fintechs by CNBC

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  17th July 2025

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  Government, Social Media

  Nigeria’s top government officials reach just 17 million people on social media, report finds

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  16th July 2025

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  Corrections, FinTech, Startups

  Correction: WhatsApp AI bot Xara wants to make banking in Nigeria as easy as chatting

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  4th July 2025

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  Startups

  African startups undervalued globally due to poor storytelling, report says

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  26th June 2025