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Johnstone Kpilaakaa

Johnstone is a journalist covering innovation and social responses in Africa. He is 2024 MTN Media Innovation Fellow at School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University in Nigeria. He was formerly a senior reporter at Condia.
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Escape, remand, and now a demand: Binance seeks release of detained exec in Nigeria

Binance has urged the Nigerian government to release Tigran Gambaryan, the detained head of its criminal investigations team.

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BD Insider 228: Multichoice hit in ₦7.9 billion fraud

Inside: Nigeria wants to launch another national ID, Kenya's e-mobility policy and Hauwei's $10 million cloud credit grant for African startups.

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African tech VC funding declined 51% YoY in Q1 2024

In Q1 2024, African startups raised at least $369 million across 64 publicly announced deals, a 51.36% plunge from the previous year according to BD Funding Tracker.

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Kenyan traveltech Triply is the third African startup in YC 2024 winter batch

Kenyan traveltech startup Triply has joined Y Combinator's 2024 winter batch as the third African company selected.

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Thepeer, a startup facilitating inter-wallet operability in Africa is shutting down

Three-year-old seed-stage African API fintech, Thepeer is shutting down after raising nearly $2.5 million in funding.

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Sim Shagaya launches The Honey Badger Fund (HBF) to back African entrepreneurs

Sim is popular for pioneering the e-commerce movement in Nigeria through his company, Konga which he founded in July 2012. He raised about $80 million with Konga pre-2020 when capital was scarce in the African tech ecosystem.

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Netflix hikes subscription prices in Nigeria

Netflix, a leading global streaming service, has hiked its subscription fees in Nigeria by 11%.

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BD Insider 227: Why Cellulant exited the Nigerian mobile money market

Inside: Cellulant exits Nigerian mobile money market and Uber's statement on its data sharing agreement with Lagos.

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TikTok’s sister app LetsChat shuts down in Africa

LetsChat, the instant messaging app owned by TikTok's parent company ByteDance, has been shut down.

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Leatherback and YES BANK Partner to enable Indian Rupee transfers for global remittance

Leatherback has partnered with YES BANK to enable Indian Rupee remittances and payouts for individuals and businesses globally.

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This hacked Twitter user turned ethical hacker now recovers social media accounts

With her birthday just a few hours away, Victoria Johnson clicked a phishing link by mistake and was locked out of her Facebook account with over 7.8k followers, which she relied on to manage her businesses online.

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BD Insider 226: Ethiopian bank scrambles to recover $40M+ lost in error

Inside: Ethiopia's bank suffers a $40 million technical glitch, Meta's monetisation programme and Nigerian mobile subscribers plummet.

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