Tag: Nigeria
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🇳🇬 Flutterwave CEO Joins Global Technology Advisory Board Backed by Silicon Valley Leaders
Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola has joined the Founders Council of the Silicon Valley & The World Advisory Board, a global technology initiative co-chaired by leaders including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and AMD’s Lisa Su. The appointment gives Africa a prominent voice in discussions surrounding artificial intelligence, technology…
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇱🇷 🇸🇴 🇨🇩 Africa Has a Seat at the Table — But Not a Permanent One
Africa has three elected members on the UN Security Council in 2026, but no permanent seat or veto. As African leaders renew calls for reform, the debate is increasingly focused on whether the global security system still reflects the geopolitical realities of the 21st century.
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🇳🇬 🇺🇸 US Mining Funds Turn Their Attention to Nigeria as Abuja and Washington Advance Critical Minerals Deal
Nigeria is attracting growing U.S. mining interest as Abuja and Washington advance a proposed critical-minerals cooperation agreement. The initiative could open new investment in lithium and other strategic minerals while raising questions about processing, local value addition and Nigeria’s role in global mineral supply chains.
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🇳🇬 Dangote Refinery Launches $1.6 Billion IPO in Africa’s Biggest Share Sale
Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery is preparing a $1.6 billion initial public offering that would value the refinery at about $47 billion, in what Reuters reports would be Africa’s largest stock-market listing. The planned November listing marks a major stage in the development of the Lagos-based refine…
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🇳🇬🇨🇳 China Supplies Nearly 40% of Nigeria’s Imports in First Half of 2026
Nigeria imported N11.01 trillion worth of goods from China in January-June 2026, making China the source of 39.27% of Nigeria’s total imports during the period.
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🇳🇬 Nigerian Startup Terra Industries Raises Record $52 Million Seed Round to Expand Autonomous Security Across Africa
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s emerging technology sector is gaining international attention after Terra Industries, a Nigerian security technology company developing autonomous drones and advanced security systems, reportedly raised $52 million in seed funding, marking what is being described as the largest seed round in African startup history. The funding represents a significant vote of confidence…
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🇳🇬 Dangote’s Next Generation: Inside the Family’s Vision for Africa’s Industrial Future
By Pan African News Desk The future of one of Africa’s most influential business empires is increasingly becoming a question of succession, strategy and long-term economic transformation. In an exclusive conversation featured on Bloomberg Next Africa, Aliko Dangote’s daughters—Halima, Mariya and Fatima Dangote—offered insight into the next generation of leadership at the Dangote Group and…
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JAŸ-Z30: Jay-Z Announces Virtual Listening Party as 30-Year Hip-Hop Celebration Enters New Chapter
NEW YORK — Hip-hop icon Jay-Z is giving fans another opportunity to celebrate his historic career with a virtual listening party as the JAŸ-Z30 campaign commemorates 30 years since the release of Reasonable Doubt. The online event is scheduled for September 3, 2026, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, with the celebration connected to the JAŸ-Z30…
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🇹🇩 Inside ISWAP’s Online Propaganda Machine: How Al-Buhaira Outlet is Waging a War of Words Across the Lake Chad Basin
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has developed one of the most sophisticated propaganda operations among armed extremist groups operating in the Lake Chad Basin. Since its emergence from the factional split within Boko Haram in 2016, the organization has increasingly used media to communicate with communities, promote its ideological message and portray itself…