Virtual Terminal Network, a Nigerian mobile payments operator, has launched a blockchain lab in Nigeria. The VCASH Blockchain Experiment (VBE) aims to make Nigeria a leader...
Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary, Joe Mucheru, recently announced that his ministry is in the process of creating a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) task force. The...
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a counterfeit medicine as “one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to its identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can...
The Australia-based company African Mutual Resources has implored Nigeria to utilise blockchain technology in the gold mining supply chain to enable the West African country to foster...
An economy is only as good as its gross domestic product (GDP), political climate, and technological development. In many parts of Africa, these three factors are...
A major issue that African countries have been grappling with is academic certificate fraud. One country that makes for a good case study is Kenya where...
Many Kenyans rely on brokers and advocates when it comes to the transfer of land title deeds due to the tedious amount of paperwork and long queues...
Blockchain technology was a key topic of discussion at the UN conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the 21st to the 24th of November. The just-concluded four-day...
The Nigeria Blockchain Alliance (NBA), a platform under the umbrella of the cryptography development initiative of Nigeria (CDIN), will be hosting the first edition of its...
The Central Bank of Nigeria is reportedly exploring the potential of blockchain technology and its application in various sectors. This represents a fundamental shift in the regulator’s...