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👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – OPay to NGX?

In today's edition: Quizzes || OPay reportedly eyes the NGX || Coronation sells part of its SPAR stake || Who secured the bag? 💰

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Pick n Pay, pick n scroll

In today's edition: Ventures Platform closes $84m fund || Kenya’s Musalia Mudavadi wants the country to join global cyber-police || Pick n Pay i…

Peter Otobong: From Coder to Fintech Systems Engineer

Peter Otobong on building blockchain systems in Nigeria, growing Africa's tech communities, and why he now sees himself as an engineer.

Nigeria's NCC grants MTN conditional approval for IHS deal

Nigeria's NCC has granted MTN Nigeria a conditional Approval-in-Principle (AiP) for its proposed acquisition of IHS Towers’ Nigerian business

Intron's new voice model can follow African speakers who switch languages mid-sentence

Intron has released Sahara v2.5, a set of voice AI models built for when Africans use multiple languages in one sentence.

Fibre Is changing Nigeria’s Internet. Now comes the hard part

Nigeria’s fibre boom is reshaping the country’s broadband market, but the bigger test is no longer just how quickly fibre can be deployed.

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – New landlord, same old tenant

MTN has secured Nigerian approval to acquire IHS Towers, but under one condition: it must sell 30% of its IHS stake to local investors.

How the B.A.B.Y. Scale Accelerator is redefining models for innovation initiatives in Africa

B.A.B.Y. Scale Accelerator focuses on improving total wellbeing for babies and young children by supporting solutions around early childhood dev…

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Cell C, plan C

Cell C is in talks with satellite Internet operators Amazon Leo and Starlink to resell low-Earth orbit (LEO) broadband to its customers.

The Next Wave: Are Kenyan startups not bootstrapping enough?

The hunger is not entirely gone from Kenya, but it will only return when the market stops paying founders to ignore it.

How a Nigerian built a crypto company from an $11.12 allowance

Bitoshi started as a crypto WhatsApp side hustle. Today, it has crossed $50 million in transaction volume.

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Mega Terra

Terra Industries raised additional $18 million, closing what has become the largest and most covered seed round in Africa's tech ecosystem.

Phones running Android 17 right now (2026)

Here is the full list of phones running Android 17 right now, updated for August 2026, from Pixel and Samsung to Motorola.

Android 17 QPR2 features confirmed so far

Android 17 QPR2 features are landing in beta. See what is confirmed for App Lock & Quick Settings editor before December's stable release.

What’s new with Samsung One UI 9 Beta 5 update

Samsung has released One UI 9 Beta 5 for the Galaxy S26 series. See what is new, what got fixed, and what this means for the stable update.

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – ICASA rolls over

After accusing Vodacom and MTN of colluding to oppose its data rollover proposition for user end-billing, ICASA has retracted its claim.

Why Tanzanian brothers think aid got Africa's water crisis wrong

Tanzanian brothers Constantine and Herman founded SafeSip, a startup that treats clean water as a service that must pay for its own survival.

Can Cape Verde rival Nigeria and Ghana in tech?

Cape Verde is placing a bold bet that a small, stable island nation can punch far above its weight in the digital economy.