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Out for a break!

Pulling paywalls

Experiments, not employment

Next-day beats next week

Two fascinating items

Policy Theatre

Trust is the product

Will the VC Thesis On Nigeria Actually Change?

The Butterfly Memos

The League table

A $56 million power bill

Basket Case

Jumia’s walk to profitability is a tightrope

YC-backed Reliance Health lays off 100+ people in breakeven push

Divorces, DNA & Discounts

The big, beautiful business of airtime lending

Honest taglines for Nigerian fintech

The adults in the room

Will we get streaming wars again?

Salary accounts are dead, long live the neobanks

Who buys a bad loan?

The wrong way to kill a $92 million startup

MTN has entered the chat. Should AWS really be worried?

Open banking, closed doors

Sterling's Big and Vague Ambitions

Exit strategies

If it ain’t broke, compare again

A tough week for startup employees

Fintech player comps: Afrobeats Edition

PalmPay, Moniepoint, and Moove: the media game behind fundraising

The things we don’t forget

Union Bank goes to court over ₦9.3bn fraud

Open Banking and crickets

Buses, bandits, and the broken banks that created fintechs

Nope, that isn't insider trading

Two startups walk into an FMCG...

Jumia's $13.7 million cloud bill

A Profitable Partnership

Launch first, ask for forgiveness later

Nigeria's Central Bank approves Open Banking launch for August 2025

You’re just hailing a yellow cab

Free transfers are so last year

Nigerian banking is premium, here's why you think it's bare minimum

Is fintech becoming a slur?

Gokada is raising $200k to keep the engines running

The raise is here; don’t tell your coworkers

The VC Binge of 2021 Was Wild. The Hangover Is Here

₦1 trillion reasons why free banking was never real

Nigeria’s bad idea factory is working overtime

Paystack Built the Rails; Now It Wants to Ride Them

Can’t touch this

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