Nigerian fintech company Paga has appointed Opeyemi Oyinloye as acting chief executive of its Nigeria business, marking a major leadership transition after more than a decade under founder leadership.
Founder Tayo Oviosu said in a LinkedIn post he will step...
PayPal, the global payments and commerce platform, has partnred with Paga to allow live account linking for customers in Nigeria, a first for users in Nigeria to access PayPal-supported cross-border payments, allowing them to receive international payments and withdraw...
Paga Group, the Nigerian fintech firm now headquartered in the UK, has expanded into the US market with digital banking services for Africa’s diaspora in the US.
Paga’s new service helps Africans in the US to open and manage a...
Paga, the payments and financial services ecosystem for Africa, has launched its ‘Making Life Possible’ brand campaign. The campaign tells the story of the Paga Orange ship, which has empowered people to simplify their lives and businesses for over...
The Huayra Codalunga is a longtail version of Pagani's Huayra supercar. Pagani built it at the request of two clients, who collaborated with the company's Grandi Complicazioni department, which specializes in one-of-a-kind and limited-run vehicles. Pagani only produced five...
Paga, a Nigerian mobile payments and financial services company, has partnered with the Bank of Abyssinia and received regulatory approval from Ethiopia's National Bank to launch an online payment gateway.
Paga, which was founded in 2009, provides Nigerians safe and...
Nigeria’s digital financial services provider, Paga, has joined an alliance of 50 plus Fintech investors and digital finance innovators who gathered at Amsterdam to launch investor guidelines aimed at spreading the benefits of the Fintech revolution even further.
The company...
The Communication Authority of Kenya reminds broadcasters on the regulatory requirements governing the responsible use of broadcasting platforms as the General Election approaches. As such it warns broadcasting stations not to incite propaganda for war, incite violence and spread...
Jay Alabraba, Paga's Co-founder and Director of Business Development, believes that accessibility has critical roles to play in the future of mobile payments and financial inclusion in Nigeria. Alabraba added that a viable agent network will finance services to...
Nigeria's mobile payments service Paga has officially launched its business focused solution dubbed Paga for Business aiming at allowing small and large businesses receive mobile payments from its customers mobile phones or online.
Businesses can also send cash to mobile...
Ex-Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Chief Economist, Jim O’Neill has invested into Paga, Nigeria’s leading Mobile Payments service which celebrated its 5th anniversary recently.
According Paga Founder & CEO, Tayo Oviosu Jim, O’Neill has spotted Paga’s potential to...
Nigeria's money transfer and payments service, Paga which allows users to send and receive cash, pay bills, power merchants and buy airtime over mobile phones and web is celebrating five years with over 1.3 million users and over 7...
Leading global payment service company Western Union in collaboration with Paga mobile payment platform in Nigeria has launched a new mobile money transfer service in Nigeria in a bid to expand reach in the country.
The move will henceforth allow...
Nigeria's mobile payment service Paga, has hit over 1 million registered users just barely three years after its commercial launch September 2011.
Though it was founded early 2009, Paga had to work on regulations beforegoing commercial.
According to Paga's CEO Tayo...
PayPal is not currently engaged in sale negotiations with Stripe or any other potential suitors, despite recent market speculation.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the payments giant has spent several months working alongside investment bankers to "prepare for...
Italian cars are known not only for their striking design and performance, but also for their ability to integrate history with innovation. From the track-ready builds of Ferrari to the electric charm of the Fiat 500e, Italian manufacturers continue...
Verto, a cross-border payments platform, has launched its Verto Reserve that allows businesses to earn interest on their holdings in G10 and African currencies regardless of their country of incorporation.
Kenya's BusinessTech reports that Verto customers can earn up 10%...
Supply Chain Hit Hard by Cyberattacks
Attackers now tend to target the weakest links in the supply chain to gain access to corporate systems.
The rise of social engineering, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting employees with strategic access or high privilege levels...
VertoFX, the fintech providing cross-border payments, FX and banking solutions across emerging markets, has appointed Dr. Austin Okpagu as its first Country Manager for Nigeria and the broader West African region.Â
Most recently serving as Managing Director at JumiaPay, Okpagu...
 Kenya has signed a Ksh38 billion ($284.1 million) financial agreement with Korea for the construction of a Digital Media City at Konza Technopolis expected to position Kenya as a creative and content industry leader in Africa.
This comes on the backdrop of...
In a recent hearing before the Public Petitions Committee of the National Assembly, Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki revealed that the National Security Council is actively discussing the potential ban on senior government officers sharing certain information or using the popular Chinese app TikTok on government devices
NewsGuard, a platform that aims to combat misinformation, in its recent report has uncovered a staggering 725 websites disseminating news and information generated by Artificial Itelligence (AI) algorithms, often operating without sufficient human oversight.
This organization that is actively...
Elon Musk's X, where the coveted blue verification tick is available to anyone willing to pay a monthly subscription, finds itself in hot water following a disturbing report
Nigeria's alGROWithm,a talent accelerator has secured funding to scale its Growth Talent Accelerator Program across Africa, nearly two years after it started building Africa’s first ever Growth Talent Accelerator Program (GTAP) in March 2022.
With the funding, alGROWithm will unlock...
In February of this year, following discussions initiated in October 2021, Kenya and Netflix Africa finalized an agreement permitting Netflix to self-categorize streamed movies in Kenya by excluding LGBTQ-specific content
Turaco, the African insuretech distributing affordable insurance has announced it has surpassed 1,000,000 lives insured. In September 2022,Turaco raised a $10m Series A investment which has enabled the company to grow rapidly.
Operating in Nigeria, Kenya, and...
To mark the International Women's Day,The African Energy Chamber launched -The African Women Business Energy Network initiative to celebrate and empower in the women in the energy sector.
The African Women Business Energy Network (AWBEN) is a platform created to advocate for women towards career...