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Nigeria ranks 12th in FBI’s foreign cybercrime complaints with 1,219 reports in 2025

Nigeria ranks 12th in FBI’s foreign cybercrime complaints with 1,219 reports in 2025

Nigeria ranked 12th among foreign countries filing cybercrime complaints with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre in 2025,…

Egyptian Fintech Lucky Raises $23M Series B To Become A Digital Bank In North Africa

Egyptian Fintech Lucky Raises $23M Series B To Become A Digital Bank In North Africa

Egyptian consumer credit startup Lucky has raised $23 million in Series B funding to expand across North Africa…

UTME 2026: JAMB to sanction  CBT centres not visible on its monitoring system

UTME 2026: JAMB to sanction CBT centres not visible on its monitoring system

JAMB has warned that accredited CBT centres not visible on its central monitoring system risk strict sanctions, such…

Truecaller wants to help brands connect with its 500m users

Truecaller wants to help brands connect with its 500m users

Global communications platform Truecaller has announced the expansion of its Business Chat platform to help businesses around the…

Call logs reveal Argentine President Javier Milei’s possible active collusion in the $251 million Libra token scam

Call logs reveal Argentine President Javier Milei’s possible active collusion in the $251 million Libra token scam

Newly uncovered call logs have provided prosecutors with much-needed evidence, allowing them to zero in on President Javier…

How MTN MoMo lost ₦22.3B in 7 days and sued 18 banks to get it back

How MTN MoMo lost ₦22.3B in 7 days and sued 18 banks to get it back

The alert came in on May 24, 2022. Inside MTN MoMo’s operations, something is wrong because transactions are…

Paga founder Tayo Oviosu steps back from day-to-day operations as company turns 17 and enters new growth phase

Paga founder Tayo Oviosu steps back from day-to-day operations as company turns 17 and enters new growth phase

Tayo Oviosu, the founder of Nigerian fintech company Paga Group, is stepping back from running the company’s daily… The post Paga founder Tayo Oviosu steps back

FG to hold Virtual Open Day for universities ahead of ₦12bn Digital Economy Research programme

FG to hold Virtual Open Day for universities ahead of ₦12bn Digital Economy Research programme

Nigeria’s Federal Government will next week hold a three-day Virtual Open Day to brief Nigerian universities and accredited… The post FG to hold Virtual Open Day

Tech Trivia with Chioma Oko, Product Manager at Semicolon

Tech Trivia with Chioma Oko, Product Manager at Semicolon

This is Technext’s weekly Women-in-tech trivia, a close-up series that spotlights the lives and personalities of female tech enthusiasts, professionals, and founders

SiBAN’s seat at the VASP working group: Inside Nigeria’s new risk-assessment moment for blockchain

SiBAN’s seat at the VASP working group: Inside Nigeria’s new risk-assessment moment for blockchain

SiBAN’s appointment to Nigeria’s National Risk Assessment working group on financial crimes is more than a routine industry… The post SiBAN’s seat at the VASP working