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·Dangote notifies customers of 6.7% increase Nigerians are poised for fresh hardship as the increase in petrol and diesel prices threatens to trigger another wave of higher costs across the economy. Specifically, Abuja and other northern cities are set to face prices as rising crude oil prices and transportation costs increase the cost of supplying petroleum products to inland markets. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines This followed the decision of Dangote Petroleum Refinery to raise its Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, gantry price by 6.7 per cent to N1,350 per litre from…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a blog post on Saturday that the speed of AI development is too fast and that left unchecked it may “outrun our ability to understand and control these systems.”He noted that AI’s current blistering advance is being driven by its own increasing ability to build the next generation of AI, or recursive self-improvement.Amodei also cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident in July, in which a swarm of agents acted as a “fanatically devoted collective,” breaking out of their testing environment and attempting to hack into a grader evaluating their performance.He said he worries that in…
For years, the deal between brands and influencers was simple: build an audience, become popular enough for companies to notice, promote their products and get paid. The bigger the following, the greater the bargaining power. That model is still working for many creators, but the business around it is changing. Brands are becoming more careful about what they pay influencers, while audiences are getting better at spotting sponsored content. At the same time, UGC creators are showing that you do not need hundreds of thousands of followers to produce content that works. More businesses are also learning to create the…
Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for the return on a design initiative.Sooner or later, a CFO looks at your wireframes and asks what any of it actually does for the bottom line. Storyboards don’t answer that question, and the era when a 5-minute pitch could answer it ended, unfortunately, a while ago.These days, if you want to win budget, buy-in, and backing for UX, the design has to be provably good for the…
President John Mahama is asking Ghana’s Christian establishment to forge consensus on a project poisoned by audits, politics and distrust – and decide what survives. Published on September 13, 2026 at 09:00 am (GMT +1) The unfinished National Cathedral in Accra has been less a monument to faith than a monument to political mistrust. Conceived by former president Nana Akufo-Addo after a personal pledge to God, the project became engulfed in disputes over public funding, procurement, cost overruns and the demolition of state properties to make way for it.By the 2024 election, the excavation had become an opposition campaign prop:…
Listen to this article Tokyo is redefining its engagement with Africa, transitioning from traditional aid-based approaches to strategic venture capital (VC) investments focused on long-term partnerships, innovation and capacity building. Several Japanese private companies are making Japan’s presence felt in Africa’s VC landscape, particularly in high-growth sectors such as fintech, climate tech and mobility. Growing demand for innovative, technology-driven solutions in Africa has drawn increasing interest from international investors. VC funding in Africa rose from over US$2 billion in 2019 to a peak of US$5.2 billion in 2022. Though investment declined to around US$3.6 billion in 2023, the continent’s start-up…
Rabat – The MENA startup scene recorded a sharp recovery in August, with startups across the region raising $375 million. Yet the headline figure hides a less encouraging reality for North Africa: Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia did not record a single deal during the month. According to data from Wamda and Digital Digest, 27 startups secured funding in August. The total marked a strong rebound, but most of the capital came from just a few large transactions. The biggest was a $250 million Series C round for mobility startup Moove, which alone accounted for about two-thirds of the region’s total.…
EBID honoured for outstanding sustainable project financing at the Sustainable Finance Awards 2026 – African Business EBID honoured for outstanding sustainable project financing at the Sustainable Finance Awards 2026 – African Business
Infinix Niger today officially unveils the GT 50 Pro, the gaming powerhouse serving as the centerpiece of the constantly expanding hardware ecosystem known as the New GT Ecosystem. More than an incremental update, the GT 50 Pro marks a strategic evolution by synchronizing the three core dimensions of Physical Refinement, Thermal Sovereignty and Intelligent Optimization. This approach eliminates the common friction between hardware and real-world performance, helping dedicated gamers showcase their skill by overcoming the inherent limitations of the smartphone form factor. Showcasing both its physical and visual sophistication, the GT 50 Pro introduces the HydroFlow Liquid Cooling Architecture, a…
Esohe Igbinoba is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Businessfront (publishers of Techpoint Africa). Her carreer spans over a decade, building teams and bringing communities together. Over the years, she has answered numerous questions from fresh entrants in program management who are always eager to know what the career progression looks like and how they can position themselves to attract the right opportunities. In this interview, Igbinoba addresses some of the frequently asked questions and offers practical insights for those seeking to excel in program management. Who is a program manager? And what are some of the misconceptions people…