Techpoint Africa Podcast

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Lagos State’s plan to tax remote workers might work

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State.

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$220m fine: Why FCCPC’s fight with WhatsApp is valid

Meta

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Is a mobile app for farmers dead on arrival?

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Which fintechs are taking on Africa’s $58 billion remittance market?

A paper plane with foreign currencies

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Can Mano win in Nigeria’s food delivery market?

Two Mano dispatch riders

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NIMC data breach: Why you should be scared

Data breach

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Davido, Sabinus, and the meme coin craze

Davido

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Why governments are bad with digital currencies

Rwanda CBDC

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Are we expecting too much from African startups?

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The path out of a ₦2 billion hole

Brass co-founders

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CBN vs fintechs: What’s really going on

CBN building

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Paystack’s 2023 payment report and user obsession with bank transfer

lockdown online transactions

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What you need to know about Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act

cybersecurity

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How Nigeria can use crypto companies to its advantage

Bitcoin

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Thepeer: How to properly shutdown an ailing startup

Thepeer team

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How Pula wants to insure farmers against bandits

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How Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency will work

Someone holding up a coin

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Why are e-hailing companies sharing your data with the government?

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NFTs didn’t die, here’s what happened

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How Internet works in Africa

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Lagos State’s plan to tax remote workers might work

The Lagos State Government has disclosed its plans to generate ₦200 billion annually from two million people through the digital economy sector tax. What are the odds of the execution taking place?

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$220m fine: Why FCCPC’s fight with WhatsApp is valid

On today’s episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, our hosts, Oluwanifemi Kolawole and Bolu Abiodun are joined by tech lawyer, Rosemond Phil-Othihiwa to discuss African tech stories making the waves this week. First, we go to Meta and its lawsuit with the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC). The FCCPC has imposed a $220…

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Is a mobile app for farmers dead on arrival?

On this episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss Kenyan e-hailing drivers strike, Nigeria’s app for farmers, and Chowdeck’s ad product.

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Which fintechs are taking on Africa’s $58 billion remittance market?

On this week’s episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss the OPay glitch, Africa’s remittance market, and UNDP’s technology hubs.

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Can Mano win in Nigeria’s food delivery market?

This week on the Techpoint Africa podcast, we discuss KuCoin’s new VAT charge on crypto trades in Nigeria and Mano’s foray into food delivery.

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NIMC data breach: Why you should be scared

Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss an alleged data breach in Nigeria and South Africa’s new e-hailing prices policy.

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Davido, Sabinus, and the meme coin craze

Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss the celebrity meme coin craze and the Ampersand-BYD partnership.

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Why governments are bad with digital currencies

On this week’s Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss Rwanda’s Central Bank Digital Currency and the Wasoko-MaxAB merger.

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Are we expecting too much from African startups?

On this week of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss Zone’s new blockchain PoS payment gateway, Gro Intelligence’s shutdown, and Copia Global’s woes

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The path out of a ₦2 billion hole

We discuss what the Brass acquisition means for the Nigerian tech ecosystem and Bolt’s new bidding system on this week’s Techpoint Africa Podcast.

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CBN vs fintechs: What’s really going on

On this week’s episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss the CBN-fintech tussle, and the 16-month salary delay at Bloc.

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Paystack’s 2023 payment report and user obsession with bank transfer

Today our hosts discuss: Tanzania’s unlicenced loan apps. Nigeria’s San Francisco startup house, and Paystack’s 2023 report.

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What you need to know about Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act

From Nigeria’s cybersecurity levy to a crackdown on unregistered PoS businesses, this episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast discusses some of this week’s trending stories.

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How Nigeria can use crypto companies to its advantage

Our guest on today’s podcast is Ray Youssef, CEO, NoOnes. We discuss Nigeria’s recent clampdown on Binance and crypto and what happened with his last company, Paxful.

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Thepeer: How to properly shutdown an ailing startup

On today’s episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss, the Thepeer audit, South Africa’s approved crypto asset providers, and Nigeria’s first multilingual LLM.

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How Pula wants to insure farmers against bandits

On today’s episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss Pula’s $20m Series B raise, Starlink’s troubles in Africa, and lessons from building Konga according to Sim Shagaya.

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How Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency will work

On this episode of the Techpoint Africa podcast we discuss Africa’s need for an AI strategy, Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency, and Jump n Pass’ partnership with Justrite.

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Why are e-hailing companies sharing your data with the government?

Today’s podcast sees us discuss Thepeer’s shutdown, Sim Shagaya’s VC foray, and Edo State’s API integration for ride-hailing operators.

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NFTs didn’t die, here’s what happened

Our guest on today’s podcast is Michael Ugwu, NFT Collector and CEO, Freeme Digital as we discuss all things NFTs and crypto.

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How Internet works in Africa

On today’s podcast, we discuss what Nigeria lost to the latest Internet disruptions, the Nigerian SEC’s proposed increase of crypto exchange registration fees, and one other story,

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