Frank Eleanya
Senior reporter at @techcabal 🥷 ex-BusinessDay. coverage areas: Telecom, Big Tech, Infrastructure, and Business.
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1 week ago |
techcabal.com | Sakhile Dube |Kosisochukwu Ugwuede |Frank Eleanya |Faith Omoniyi
Zimi, a South African electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions startup, has secured $320,000 (R6 million) in grant funding from the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP Africa Trust Fund) to test its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology in South Africa. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is a technology that lets electric cars send power back to homes, businesses, or the electricity grid when needed.
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1 week ago |
techcabal.com | Frank Eleanya |Faith Omoniyi |Adonijah Ndege |Kenn Abuya
Opera Mini, Opera’s lightweight mobile browser that’s become a digital lifeline across Africa—especially for users on affordable, low-spec smartphones—is stepping into the AI race with a significant upgrade, the company told TechCabal. The company is integrating its browser AI, Aria, into Opera Mini, bringing advanced AI-powered capabilities to more than 100 million users worldwide—many in data-conscious markets like Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
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1 week ago |
techcabal.com | Muktar Oladunmade |Frank Eleanya |Sakhile Dube |Kenn Abuya
Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech unicorn, has launched Monieworld, its remittance product that allows UK residents to send money directly from a Monieworld account, cards, a British bank account or via Apple Pay and Google Pay to any Nigerian bank account. In a live demo seen by TechCabal, it took just 17 seconds to send £1 to a Moniepoint account, which received ₦2,172—₦53 more than on other remittance platforms like Grey and ₦30 more than Lemfi.
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1 week ago |
techcabal.com | Sakhile Dube |Frank Eleanya |Towobola Bambgose |Adonijah Ndege
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has suspended the rollout of Postbank’s new black South African Social Security Agency (SASSA payment card), throwing the distribution of monthly social grants to over 28 million beneficiaries into uncertainty. The new cards were meant to replace the ageing gold cards used by SASSA grant recipients, one of Africa’s largest social welfare programmes.
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1 week ago |
techcabal.com | Kosisochukwu Ugwuede |Muktar Oladunmade |Frank Eleanya |Bunmi Bailey
Mobile money is so ubiquitous in Ghana people have little to no need for traditional banks. With a mobile money account—every major telecom player offers a ‘MoMo’ service—you can send and receive money, withdraw cash at vendor or agent outlets, even receive some interest if you leave your money in your wallet long enough, and run a small business comfortably. Kofi Dotse, a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur, told me he hasn’t entered a banking hall in several years.
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Visa’s bet signals a critical phase in its Africa playbook, where it is investing in newer, faster payment infrastructure to compete with homegrown systems. https://t.co/UMm82qje64
RT @TechCabal: Niger State has officially waived right-of-way (RoW) fees for fibre optic infrastructure, becoming the twelfth Nigerian stat…
Niger State has become the twelfth Nigerian state to implement zero right-of-way policy to incentivise telecom operators and expand internet access. https://t.co/5WAIXMYjUb