According to Mastercard, giving people the ability to pay only for what they use, as they need it, can lift millions of people across Africa out of poverty and make prosperity possible. A new white paper titled Pay on Demand: The Digital Path to Financial Inclusion, from Mastercard, explores how digital
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The Checkra1n utility that is in use to jailbreak certain iPhones can now be used from a rooted Android smartphone. A practice that could have interest in rare cases. Only a few years ago, root and jailbreak were common. They allow respectively on Android and iOS to gain privileges at the
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Three cash-flushed tourists will travel to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket next year. The ten-day trip will see private citizens ferried to the orbiting science lab to spend time with astronauts and experience life in Zero-G. Announced on Thursday by Axiom, a company that helps to organize private space
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The African tech ecosystem is causing a positive paradigm shift on the continent’s development models. “Today, African start-ups have reached a new level of maturity. Now that they’ve become essential and indispensable, they’re taking a seat at the table of top African executives to actively participate in the continent’s economic
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As individuals around the world increasingly embrace digital platforms, the focus on cybersecurity has increased. For developing economies with weaker security protocols, going digital means they could constantly be susceptible to cyberattacks. Policies like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the National Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) of Nigeria’s
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Energy companies have traditionally been at the cutting edge of technological advances, but with those advances, utilities open themselves up to potential hazards. The energy sector spans several areas of industry, among them oil and gas producers and electrical companies. As more of these companies start to delve into new
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Climate and energy website Carbon Brief found that UK carbon emissions have fallen by nearly a third in the past decade, even as the economy has grown by a fifth. The country emitted 354 million tonnes of carbon dioxide last year - a reduction of 29 per cent since 2010. The analysis,
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In novel materials known as photonic topological insulators, wavelengths of light can flow around sharp corners with virtually no losses. Now scientists have witnessed key details of what the light does inside these structures, which could help them to better engineer these materials for real-world applications. Topology is the branch of mathematics
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The senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s $22.7 billion loan request — years after it was rejected by the previous assembly. At its plenary session on Thursday, the upper legislative chamber approved the 2016-2018 external borrowing plan which the president said would be used for critical projects across the country. We understands
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The bid to achieve a cashless economy in Nigeria is about to hit another stage, as various commercial banks have begun notifying their customers about the proposed fees for deposits and withdrawals, with effect from April 2020. In September 2019, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that there would be
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