AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom

[Daba Finance] Nigerian fintech startup Rex Africa has launched what it describes as the country's first AI-native bank. The new banking service, which went live this month, is built around an AI-powered financial agent designed to provide customers with personalized guidance. Founded by Yinka Odeleye, Rex Africa aims to integrate artificial intelligence directly into the core b...

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja is leading a National Police Service (NPS) delegation to Israel to explore emerging drone technology and its potential application in policing, security operations and law enforcement training.

[This Day] The number of active subscribers for data (internet) services on each of the licensed service providers utilising the different technologies such as GSM, Fixed Wired/Wireless and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), reached 158,520,893 as at August 2026, numbers released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has reveaaled.

[This Day] The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations agency responsible for the regulation of digital technologies across globe, has opened its Plenipotentiary Conference 2026 (PP-26) in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the opportunities and challenges in emerging technologies.

[This Day] Chairman of Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has told an international gathering of women leaders that his decision to build a technology company in Africa, at a time when the sector was virtually non-existent on the continent, amounted to what he described as 'corporate suicide'.