American multinational card payment services corporation,Mastercard has partnered with Busha, a pan-African digital asset exchange, to expand Mastercard Crypto Credential across Africa and bring greater trust and simplicity to digital asset transfers. This effectively mean all eligible Busha users in Nigeria are enabled to use a unique Crypto Credential alias, expanding the network of verified users and making it easier to send and receive cryptocurrency across participating

Nigeria’s real estate market is projected to record the fastest annual growth among several major African property markets between 2025 and 2029, with a new continental investment report forecasting average annual expansion of about 6.9%. The projection places Nigeria ahead of Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa and reinforces the country's position as one of Africa's largest property markets. The report estimates Nigeria's real estate market at approximately $2.6tn, suppor

Dangote Refinery’s IPO opens with $49bn share capital The Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals (DPRP) has signed the registration documents for the biggest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Africa, valued at approximately N2.2 trillion, about $1.6 billion. The IPO targets up to 10 million Nigerian investors, including low income earners, through a Bank Biometric Verification Number (BVN)-integrated subscription process. The President and Chief Executive of Dangote Pe

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A television game show inNigeria’scommercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away in Zimbabwe, learning a language her parents feared she would never speak. “Mhoroi,” Nyashadzashe Machingura says ch

Africa is stepping up efforts to secure greater control over its critical mineral resources, with the Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) set to convene a high-level roundtable in New York next month as part of a broader push to promote mineral processing, investment and value addition on the continent. This was revealed from a press statement from AMSG on Sunday. The Third AMSG High-Level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa is scheduled for September 21,