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Sunil Taldar, Airtel Africa’s Chief Executive Officer, has urged African telecoms operators to open their infrastructure through coordinated equipment and spectrum sharing, a move he described as cost-effective and capable of expanding coverage and reaching more customers. The CEO made the remarks in an interview with Arise News on Friday during a Business Report show.

MTN Nigeria Chief Financial Officer, Modupe Kadri, has charged Nigerian businesses to reject a sense of policy entitlement, build reputable brands that can compete with international companies, and not submit to the ideology of being “local”. He made the remarks while speaking at the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of Commerce (NSACC) breakfast forum held on Thursday, August 27, 2026, at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Telecoms company Airtel Africa has revealed that most of its $1.1 billion capital expenditure (CAPEX) for 2026 will go to fibre rollouts and spectrum acquisition. This forms part of the company’s plans to improve network quality across its 14 African markets. In an interview with Arise News during the Business Report program on Friday, Airtel Africa CEO Sunil Taldar shared that the company wants to improve customer experience and leverage new infrastructure to deepen internet penetration.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has suspended trading in Labat Africa‘s shares after the company failed to pay a R22.7 million ($1.43 million) dividend it had declared. The suspension took effect immediately when Labat did not transfer the full amount to Strate, South Africa’s central securities depository, by the agreed settlement date. Initially, Labat scheduled the dividend payment for August 3.

The global artificial intelligence ecosystem is expanding rapidly, and African technologists are driving some of its most critical advancements. The 2026 TIME100 AI list confirms a reality that the continent’s tech sector has been building towards for years: Africa is actively architecting the frameworks, drafting the ethics, and writing the code that will define the AI age. This year’s roster clearly celebrates that homegrown mastery.

Nigerian defence-tech company Terra Industries has launched a commercial division to sell its autonomous security systems directly to privately owned infrastructure operators, expanding beyond the government and military contracts that have defined its business since 2024.

Digital creators are expected to produce more visual content than ever, often for several platforms at once. A single photograph may need to become a product image, social post, thumbnail, profile graphic and promotional banner, each with a different layout and background. That workload has changed which editing skills matter most. Tasks that once belonged mainly to professional designers are now part of everyday content production, and background removal is one of the clearest examples.

For Nigerians holding dollar-denominated stablecoins, the difficult part has rarely been acquiring them. It is the last step: turning a USDT or USDC balance into naira sitting in a bank account, without a chain of intermediaries taking a cut at every stage. Bitget Wallet, the self-custodial crypto wallet that passed 100 million users globally in July, has run a direct bank transfer feature in Nigeria since November 2025. Nine months on, the market it launched into has changed.

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“It’s TODAY, I found out that sharing hotspot can implicate you in a crime,” a user known as Talk2veee wrote in a post on X on 25 August, adding that if you share your hotspot with a random person, “it’s your IP address and everything that will pop up if they are being tracked.” The post set off a debate.