The world’s longest undersea cable, 2Africa, has made landfall at Yzerfontein and is linked to its cable landing station at Duynefontein near Cape Town. MTN GlobalConnect officially announced the landing …
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Best Five Performing Banks in Nigeria for H1 2022
by Editorby EditorBanking remains the heart of modern-day commerce. The ease and reliability at which funds can be distributed from sellers to buyers play a critical role in the sustenance of the …
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Advertising Regulatory Board accuses MTN for misleading advertisement on limited-stock specials
The Advertising Regulatory Board has ruled against MTN regarding a complaint about misleading advertising for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 smartphone. Complainant Dianne Barnard upgraded two of her contracts telephonically, …
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Lagos-based equity and Investment firm decries funding gap for women-led businesses
The Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital, a Lagos-based equity and investment company, Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes, has complained about the funding gap women-focused businesses are grappling with. She argued that businesses managed …
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Airtel signs $194 million loan deal with IFC to boost African operations
Tuesday entered pact with Washington-based International Finance Corporation (IFC) to obtain $194 million credit to strengthen operations in six of its 14 African markets. IFC is a unit of the World Bank …
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Wisdom Kwati donates relief materials, food to flood victims Adamawa State
In a bid to help reduce the plight of flood victims in Adamawa state, the CEO of Wisdom Kwati smart city, Wisdom Kwati has donated relief materials to people of …
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Sanlam and Absa officially partner to form South Africa’s largest black-owned asset manager
Sanlam and Absa have officially combined their investment businesses to form South Africa’s largest black-owned asset manager. The two companies announced in October 2021 that they were joining forces to …
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MTN Ghana to deactivate quarter of it’s subscriber’s SIM cards on Thursday
MTN Ghana, which is Africa’s largest mobile operator’s third-most lucrative market, is bracing for the potential deactivation of a quarter of its subscriber’s SIM cards on Thursday, as it looks …
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Meta fined R4.7bn over data leak of half a billion of it’s Facebook users
Meta Platforms was slapped with a €265 million (R4.7 biillion) fine for failing to prevent the leak of the personal data of more than half a billion users of its …
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Uber Eats gets nailed over misleading TV ad
Uber Eats advertisement has been deemed misleading by The Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) in terms of the Code of Advertising Practice. According to the ARB report, Rina Hartzenberg brought the …