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CBN crypto licence rules: a thick regulation document with coloured tabs, a stack of naira coins and a phone showing a digital token (illustration)

CBN crypto licences and approvals: which one your business needs

The CBN now has five crypto licence routes, from ₦10 billion for naira stablecoins to a bolt-on for banks. Firms have 180 days.
  • November 13, 2026
  • 8 minute read
Browser game with AI: illustration of code turning into a yellow danfo game running in a web browser, with a bus stop, coins and a leaderboard

How to build a browser game with AI, the Danfo Run way

How to build a browser game with AI, step by step: we had one playable in 15 minutes. What Danfo Run and Lagos Life used, what it costs and what to fix first.
  • November 13, 2026
  • 9 minute read
African apps and data centres abroad: illustration of a phone loading an app, linked by a broken cable to server racks

A war far away can switch off your apps: here’s why

Many African apps run on data centres and cables outside the continent. When wars hit those places, services here slow down or stop.
  • November 12, 2026
  • 2 minute read
Games like Lagos Life: PH Lifestyle, a Port Harcourt life game, showing a 3D cutaway of a furnished flat.

Games like Lagos Life: the best-looking ones, and who built them

We opened 12 games that followed Lagos Life. Here are the best-looking ones, who built them and what each adds.
  • November 12, 2026
  • 6 minute read
Raenest buys Remitise: illustration of a Lagos skyline linked by an arc to a London skyline with a clock tower

Nigerian fintech Raenest buys UK payments firm Remitise

Raenest has bought 100% of Remitise, an FCA-registered UK payments company, giving it its own regulated base in Britain.
  • November 12, 2026
  • 2 minute read
Kenya VAT on digital payments: illustration of a card terminal, a phone paying by tap and a stack of coins

Kenya now taxes the fee behind your card and phone payments

Kenya now charges 16% VAT on the fees behind card and digital merchant payments. Person-to-person transfers are not automatically affected.
  • November 12, 2026
  • 3 minute read
The Lagos Life game map: a 3D virtual Lagos with the Lagos Lagoon, homes and roadside billboards.

Lagos Life: how a game built overnight eclipsed them all

Shalom Rayhamen built Lagos Life in one night. Nine days later her company had raised $500,000. Here’s what’s verified, and what isn’t.
  • November 12, 2026
  • 6 minute read
Danfo Run featured illustration: a yellow danfo minibus with black stripes driving on a road at night.

How Danfo Run helped spark Nigeria’s browser-game wave

A Berlin-based Nigerian engineer’s free danfo game spread worldwide in days, and set off Nigeria’s browser-game wave.
  • November 10, 2026
  • 5 minute read
Charge Africa is back: night skyline of a coastal African city lit up after dark, AI-generated.

Charge Africa is back: here’s what we’ll cover in 2mins

Our last story went up on 8 September 2023. Today, Charge Africa is back, explaining African technology so everyone gets it the first time.
  • November 10, 2026
  • 3 minute read
Elias Ahonen

Roqqu Appoints Head of Operations for Europe

Africa’s leading blockchain company, Roqqu, has announced a significant addition to its…
  • September 8, 2023
  • 1 minute read