Author: Elan

As economic realities continue to widen educational inequalities in Nigeria, the challenge of keeping children in school extends beyond tuition fees alone. For many families, the rising cost of school supplies, transportation, uniforms, books, and daily learning essentials has become a growing burden, disrupting a child’s educational journey. According to UNICEF, Nigeria currently has about 18.3 million out-of-school children — the highest globally — with over 10 million of them at the primary school level alone.  “Nigeria’s nearly 105 million children and adolescents aged 0-17 years represent about half of the country’s population. Investing in children is a strategic opportunity…

As organisations increasingly collect and process customer data across payments, marketing, support, and analytics systems, data protection has become a fundamental operational requirement rather than solely a compliance obligation. A prevalent method for achieving this is PII tokenisation, which replaces sensitive personal identifiers such as names, emails, phone numbers, or customer-linked IDs with protected token values, thereby limiting exposure of the original data. Done well, tokenisation reduces privacy risk without making the data useless; if not, it creates a different problem. Typically, a project is initiated to enhance data protection: sensitive fields are tokenised, access controls are strengthened, and the…

Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Enjoy!Everyone has a creative spark in them. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others capture the perfect moment with a camera or love to grab pen and paper to create little doodles or pieces of lettering. And even if you don’t think of yourself as particularly creative, who knows? There might be a hidden talent waiting to be…

Complex technological architecture popularised by Huawei and ZTE is rapidly spreading across African cities, raising growing concerns about political monitoring, data control and the boundaries of state security.

NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, March 30, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Former Sierra Leone Ambassador Sidique Wai to Lead Strategic Initiative Connecting African Governments, Diaspora Leaders, and U.S. Institutions at Critical Inflection Point for U.S.-Africa Relations Gotham Government Relations, a leading New York-based government affairs and strategic advocacy firm, today announced the launch of the Gotham Africa Practice, a comprehensive platform designed to serve African governments, diaspora communities, and institutional stakeholders seeking effective engagement with Washington, New York, and U.S. policy institutions. The Gotham Africa Practice is the first Africa focused initiative by any major lobbying and government relations firm…

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In brief Republican fintech entrepreneur Michael Carbonara liquidated 10 Bitcoin for $800,000 to help bankroll his congressional campaign. The candidate’s shift to the 22nd District positions him in a newly wide-open race, triggered after the recent map redraw. Carbonara is leveraging his tech background to advocate for accountability on-chain, from campaign finance to the government’s budget. A Republican candidate jockeying to represent Florida’s 22nd Congressional District has liquidated a portion of his personal Bitcoin stash to bankroll his political bid, while striking a pro-crypto stance in a newly shaped battleground race.Michael Carbonara, who established a digital banking and payments company…

One afternoon in February 2026, I went to Ikeja GRA, a highbrow neighbourhood in Lagos, to talk to a new crop of executives at Cowrywise, the wealth management fintech that manages money for over two million Nigerians.  Four weeks earlier, at a January retreat held at a business club in Victoria Island, a highbrow area on the southern side of Lagos, Cowrywise had promoted 11 people to the title of associate vice president (AVP), the type of move that earns the rare tag of ‘unprecedented’ in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. For a company of fewer than 80 people, it meant one…

Andy Walker / Android AuthorityTL;DR Microsoft will soon begin sunsetting third-party logins for SwiftKey backup. If you want the keyboard to store your personal dictionary files and sync them across devices, you must now use a Microsoft account. If you already use a different login, such as Google or Apple, your data will be deleted unless you back it up by tomorrow. For months, Microsoft has been advising SwiftKey users to switch to OneDrive-based backup. The final deadline set by the software giant is May 31, i.e., which is tomorrow. And although the deadline for this transition has been sliding,…

Paystack, one of Africa’s leading financial technology companies, has launched a completely rebuilt merchant Dashboard designed for the AI era, introducing an AI-powered Command Centre that gives businesses instant answers about transactions, revenue trends, settlements, and operational performance. The new Paystack Dashboard marks the company’s first full redesign in nearly 10 years and reflects the growing role of artificial intelligence in African fintech, payments infrastructure, and business operations. More than 300,000 organisations — including startups, enterprises, SMEs, and government agencies — use Paystack’s technology to process online and offline payments securely across Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Côte d’Ivoire.…