Techpoint Africa Podcast

It has been an eventful week and we could not help but talk about it on the Techpoint Africa Podcast. From Apple's World Wide Developer Conference 2022 (WWDC22) to Nigeria's primary election drama, we did not leave anything out.

1:15 - Apple's Buy Now Pay Later option and other WWDC updates

6:18 - MFS Africa acquires GTP

15:16 - Ethiopia places outright ban on crypto trading

24:04 - Preventing lengthy vote counts with blockchain

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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It's been a horrific few days for Nigerians. The attack at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State resulted in the death of over 50 persons. Gruesome videos flooded the Internet as calls for blood donations were made in the numbers.

The last few years have seen an increase in saddening deaths, kidnappings, and terrorist attacks in Nigeria, and that is one reason US-based logistics company, Zipline launched in Kaduna State, Nigeria on Friday, Jun 3, 2022.

On this episode:

2:02 - Zipline expands drone service to Kaduna, Nigeria

16:12 - Yuga Labs hack

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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Startups are not the only ones going through changes. Techpoint Africa is too. We’re making changes on our editorial team, revamping some existing series and starting new ones in some cases. We discussed this in addition to Ayoken’s pre-seed funding and Swvl’s employee layoffs.

0:56 - (Re)Introducing our (new) series

13:36 - Ayoken's $1.4m raise and its NFT marketplace for creatives

26:15 - SWVL layoffs

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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From Starlink's approval in Nigeria to ANC's proposed ban on DStv's exclusive sports broadcasting rights, today's episode of Techpoint Africa Podcast had us talking about money, the people that have it and those that don't.

2:11 - Starlink coming to Nigeria

19:20 - DStv's monopoly in Africa

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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What do you think about an NFT project that wants to reclaim Africa's lost artefacts? Well, the editorial team had some interesting thoughts, and you can listen to this and other stories on today's episode of #TechpointAfricaPodcast.

1:04 - Uber completes one billionth ride in Africa

3:26 - About the Africa Mobility Conference

7:01 - Kenyan govt. rolls out telemedicine programme 

16:22 - CAR to launch official crypto hub ‘Sango’

23:12 - Relooting African art with NFTs

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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If you’re a regular listener of the Techpoint Africa Podcast then you probably know that we discussed Autochek’s acquisition of the Moroccan cars marketplace KIFAL Autos, last week. We also brought up a report that shows that most car marketplaces in Nigeria made up to 150% profit from car sales.

Autochek reached out to Chimgozirim to clear things up and we decided to kick off today’s episode of the Techpoint Africa Podcast with that.

0:00 - Intro

1:06 - Follow up on Autochek's Buy Now Pay Later plan for cars

9:38 - RE: SEC regulations. Nigeria Crypto exchange CEOs to retire after 10 years

16:21 - New phone call tax to fund mandatory health insurance in Nigeria

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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Taxation is not a subject that Nigerians want to talk about, but the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is about to make it unavoidable.

0:58 - FIRS' Data for Tax initative

13:04 - Jumia branching into healt-tech

22:18 - Autochek's acquistion of Moroccan online car marketplace, Kifal

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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From Nigeria’s new rules for crypto to a possible reset in the tech ecosystem, we had quite a bit to discuss on today’s Techpoint Africa Podcast. Here’s the low-down.

1:27 - SEC's new regulations for cryptocurrencies in Nigeria

13:27 - Are we experiencing 'The Great Reset' in the African startup ecosystem?

30:10 - The 'Fake it will you make it' syndrome in African tech

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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Fintechs dominate the African tech ecosystem; 62% (~$2.9 billion) of total startup funding went to fintech in 2021 but does this mean we have too many of them? On today's edition of #TechpointAfricaPodcast, we decided to weigh in on the debate.

Shout out to our debut producer, Ogheneruemu Oneyibo

0:41 - Why there aren't enough fintechs in Nigeria
13:06 - BNPL. 
24:41 - Bill payments coming to the eNaira

This episode was edited by Múyìwá Mátùlúkò

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The prolonged deadline for the linkage came to an end on Monday, April 4, 2022, and caused disconnected subscribers to troop to the nearest National Identification Management Commission’s (NIMC) office to have their lines unbarred. However, many have been unable to link their SIMs as NIMC seems to be unable to verify NINs. According to Premium Times, over 7.5 million MTN subscribers are yet to get their NINs verified by the NIMC.

This is where we began our discussion on today's edition of the Techpoint Africa Podcast.

1:03 - MTN yet to reactivate 7.5 million phone lines

5:01 - Proposed tarrif increase by Nigerian telcos

11:22 - YouTube Go is shutting down

19:50 - Elon Musk's plans for Twitter (would you pay to use?)

From hashtags to the reality: 5 impactful social movements in Nigeria that started on Twitter

Register for the Techpoint Africa Blockchain Summit by visiting blockchain.techpoint.africa. See list of confirmed speakers here.

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