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UNILAG Student Wins Red Bull Basement Nigeria With Livestock Tracker “VitalTag”.
A University of Lagos (University of Lagos) student has emerged winner of the Red Bull Basement Nigeria national finals with an innovation called VitalTag, a livestock health monitoring system designed to help farmers detect illness in animals at an early stage. The winner, Jesutofunmi Oniyide, a Mechatronics Engineering student, developed VitalTag as an Internet of…
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Refiant AI Raises $5M Seed Round to Cut AI Energy Costs in Clean Tech Push.
Refiant AI has raised $5 million in seed funding in a round led by VoLo Earth Ventures, marking fresh investor interest in startups building more energy-efficient artificial intelligence infrastructure. The funding round, completed around April 14, 2026, positions the company as part of a growing wave of “clean compute” innovators targeting AI’s rising energy demands.…
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Sama Lays Off Over 1,000 Kenyan Workers as Meta Contract Winds Down.
Sama has laid off about 1,100 employees in Kenya following the winding down of its work relationship with Meta, marking one of the most significant job cuts in Africa’s AI data labeling sector. The affected workers were based primarily in Nairobi and were engaged in AI data annotation and content moderation tasks that support the…
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Standard Bank Breach Leaks Card Details, 1.2TB of Data — Internal System Vulnerability Exposes Customers.
Standard Bank has confirmed a significant data breach that exposed sensitive customer information, including card numbers and expiry dates, following unauthorised access to its internal systems in March 2026. The incident escalated after reports revealed that as much as 1.2 terabytes of data had been extracted and later leaked online, raising concerns about the scale…
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How Consumer Protection Rules Rewired Digital Lending in Africa.
Digital lending in Africa didn’t begin as a regulated industry. It began as a product of speed. In Nigeria, Kenya, and other emerging markets, loan apps grew by stripping out friction—no collateral, minimal documentation, and approvals that took minutes. For many users, credit stopped being a bank process and became an app interaction. That model…
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Zambia Centralises 12 Million Patient Records in Digital Health Overhaul — Sets Stage for AI-Powered Healthcare.
Zambia has consolidated more than 12 million patient records into a unified national digital platform as part of a major health system upgrade built around its SmartCare Pro electronic health record system. The move marks one of the most extensive health data integration efforts in sub-Saharan Africa, as the country shifts from fragmented hospital records…