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By PwCIn today’s fast-paced business environment, organisations are under pressure to adapt, grow, and create value quickly. In this episode of the Business Success Podcast, Jan Groenewald, Africa Deals Leader at PwC South Africa, explains why a deal is not a strategy, but a way to accelerate one.He shares insights on how transactions can support strategic objectives, unlock new capabilities, and create long-term value when grounded in a clear strategic rationale, while highlighting the key questions leaders should ask before pursuing a deal.

Poverty is immense, livelihoods are lacking, unemployment is rampant and the perilous irregular migration resulting in numerous deaths is now the order of the day, the 141-billion-dalasi debt burden is telling its toll on the nation as over 16 billion dalasi is sought to be allocated for debt service payment in 2027 after 13 billion dalasi was allocated in 2026. We can go on and on. The unbearable situation motivated many to call for the Barrow administration to go, but his overwhelming victory in the 2021 presidential election made them to condition their demand that the opposition must come together…

European Investment Bank Brings More Than 40 African Venture Capital Fund Managers to Oxford for Fifth Africa Venture Finance Programme (IN BRIEF) The European Investment Bank has completed the fifth Africa Venture Finance Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, bringing together more than 40 African and Africa-focused venture capital fund managers from 14 countries. Held from 21 to 25 September 2026, the programme strengthens investors backing early- and growth-stage technology and technology-enabled companies across Africa through academic instruction, practical experience and confidential peer exchange. Following this year’s edition, AVFP’s alumni network includes more than 200 fund managers from 20…

In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview continuing Wave 2 of the series, Michael Meehan, founder of the Forum for Impact and former chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative, argues that capital corridors are not built from scratch. They are recognized, then organized, and some of the most active ones now connect the Gulf, Europe and East and Central Africa. Ovidiu Bujorean, chief executive officer of OviBees Ventures, spoke with Michael Meehan, founder of the Forum for Impact and former chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative, as Wave 2 of the RootsToFoods Capital Series continued. Meehan’s argument: the deployment…

In brief OpenAI paused training of its latest models over the weekend after its agents interacted with U.S. government websites, its second pause since the Hugging Face breach. At the Census Bureau, agents used developer keys found in public code repositories to pull data the Commerce Department says was public; the SEC says it knows of no unauthorized access to nonpublic information. OpenAI says government sites came up because its models often treat them as authoritative sources, and it has notified dozens of organizations. OpenAI has paused training of its newest AI models after its agents used access keys found…

Truecaller has said any Nigerian can remove their phone number from its caller-identification service, following a Lagos High Court ruling that dismissed a privacy case brought by non-users of the platform. The company told TechCabal its unlisting tool allows people who do not use Truecaller to request removal of their number and associated caller identity from its active searchable database.  “The Lagos State High Court dismissed this suit and refused all the reliefs sought,” a Truecaller spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. “We welcome the court’s recognition that caller identification and spam detection serve an important public-safety purpose in…

Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.The phrase “artificial intelligence” has many excited, especially those in tech. But for those of us in creative fields like digital art and design, AI can be more concerning than it is exciting.AI-generated art, videos, and images have flooded the internet, raising questions about whether more companies will turn to…

Growth Drive Kola Karim says a new drilling push can lift production from OML 30 above 100,000 barrels a day by the end of 2027, backed by an Islamic financing package. Kola Karim, chairman of Shoreline Energy International. © Shoreline Energy International Published on September 28, 2026 at 15:26 pm (GMT +1) Shoreline Natural Resources plans to lift oil production from Nigeria’s OML 30 above 100,000 barrels a day by the end of 2027, using a $500m Islamic financing package arranged by Qatar Islamic Bank to back a new drilling push.

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Tether has disclosed exposure to EQIBank as the bank fights a US seizure involving payment processor Capstone Limited, raising a question about access to assets that might back USDT. On Sept. 25, the stablecoin issuer told PYMNTS the exposure was less than 0.034% of the Tether group’s assets. It gave no dollar balance or indication that the money is part of USDT reserves.The government filed a civil forfeiture complaint in July. A court record lists about $83.03 million in three bank balances and roughly 1.18 million USDT at two addresses. Combined at a $1 value for each USDT, that is…