Damilola Ayeni

OPay is losing Nigeria’s PoS agents to Moniepoint as CBN deadline nears

As the April 1 deadline approaches, thousands of OPay devices that were once active in Ekiti and beyond could be returned.

Obituary: The end of the SEO factory

When an SEO story succeeds today, it is often an illusion, a hollow victory driven by the social-to-skim pipeline.

Nigeria’s new digital postcode: 4 Reasons it matters—and one reason to worry

Think of it as a digital fingerprint for every single building in Nigeria. Instead of a long, confusing address, every home, school, and shop gets a short code made of letters and numbers

Martha, the AI agent that cut 8 jobs at Zap, just got smarter

If the first version eliminated eight roles, what does a more advanced one mean for the workforce?

Bimpe: The Yoruba-named AI transforming UK logistics

Sam’s Bimpe is an AI assistant who answers customers, checks inventory, and processes payments while the owner sleeps.

The quiet strategies behind Africa’s fastest-growing AI startups

Without external funding, Adekunle’s startup has made significant progress in less than a year, serving customers within and outside Africa.

Inside Dala’s playbook: How an African AI tool gained 85,000 users in 4 months

When a user prompts in Yoruba, the system uses the MCP to give the AI geographic and cultural context before it even starts thinking. 

When ‘edgy humour’ was funny on Twitter—and why Simi survived but Olubi didn’t

Since Grok has a memory of X’s real-time and historical data, Condia asked it to act as a digital archaeologist and compare the cultural climate of then versus now.

Venture capital is cocaine for startups. An investor disagrees

They say two truths can coexist. And in case one of us is wrong, my bet is on me.

Why new Unilever-Google partnership is dangerous for startups

As Unilever builds a "digital backbone" with Google Cloud, it is constructing a barrier that could make smaller competitors functionally invisible to the AI assistants of tomorrow.

Talksign-1: A Nigerian is racing Google to build AI for deaf communication

A little-known project is building a foundational AI model that understands sign language and enables seamless communication for millions of deaf people.

The $6.2 billion tug-of-war: Whose win is MTN’s IHS acquisition?

While MTN frames the move as a strategic necessity to stabilise costs, local tech leaders and federal regulators are raising a red flag.