Nigerian payments company, Paga is 10 years old and has some interesting observations and projections.…
Why Paga hired founding engineers of a startup its CEO invested in
Paga recently hired the co-founders and a top engineer of ChopUp, a Nigerian gaming company which Paga CEo, Tayo Oviosu is an open investor in. Here’s how it went down.…
Why Paga’s technology is built and managed in Ethiopia
Since Nigerian mobile payments company, Paga was founded in 2009, its technology has been managed and supported in Ethiopia. We reached out to Paga to find out why, here’s what they had to say.…
Paga raises $10m Series B2, finally going global
Nigerian fintech company, Paga recently announced a new $10 million Series B funding led by the Global Innovation Fund…
NIBSS figures question Paga’s 9 million unique user base
There is a discrepancy between mobile money platform, Paga’s 9 million unique users claim and industry figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria, as quoted by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Sy…
Tayo Oviosu and Affiong Williams are relationship goals
Tayo and Affiong are our relationship goals. We love that they are both successful, cute together and fun-loving.…
Meet Tayo Oviosu, the man whose financial services company has wider reach than all banks in Nigeria combined
Tayo Oviosu is the CEO and founder of Paga, a mobile payments company he founded in 2009 to enable universal access to financial services for Nigerians.…
Paga processed over 9.5 million transactions worth over ₦156 billion in 2016
Editor’s note: The title of the article has been updated to reflect the correct figures. We sincerely apologise for the initial error. . . . . You will remember in August last year that…
Uber Lagos working on Mobile Payments option with Paga
Following foreign exchange issues that had some users being charged over the actual fares their receipts displayed, Uber announced cash payments in Lagos. Lagos is now the third African city, after Ca…
Paga bags $13 million Investment Deal
Paga, arguably Nigeria’s leading mobile payments company, has completed a $13 million Series B financing round. The financing was supported by Adlevo Capital, Omidyar Network, Acumen Fund, Capri…
Former DG of SEC, Arunma Oteh Invests in Paga
Former Director General of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission, Arunma Oteh has joined the league of Nigerians that invests in Nigerian tech startups, even as some seed funding accelerato…