This week on Techpoint.Africa

All the best stories on startups, technology and innovation this week [View this email in your browser]( Weekly Newsletter Announcing the 'Inspired Technovation Challenge' The future of Africa is undoubtedly technologically oriented. This is why Techpoint Africa is partnering with the University of Sussex in England on the “Inspired Technovation Challenge”. This competition is aimed at identifying, inspiring, encouraging and recognising future innovators, techpreneurs, data scientists and artificial intelligence engineers in Africa. Interested participants are to submit a disruptive and tech-driven innovation that has the potential to impact Africa’s future. The top five innovations will be invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of experts during TechPoint Inspired. [Learn more]( This week on Techpoint Africa Excerpts: [MTN Nigeria breaks into top 5, less than 2 days on the Nigerian Stock Exchange]( Barely 48 hours after listing on the market, MTN Nigeria is already making impact on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. [Read on »]( [Winners can get up to £6,000 scholarship in the Techpoint Africa and University of Sussex “Inspired Technovation Challenge”]( Techpoint Africa is partnering the University of Sussex in England on the “Inspired Technovation Challenge” [Read on »]( [Social Media Roundup: How Guccy Branch became a social media sensation]( This week on social media, Naira Marley's fraud case and Guccy Branch's viral memes, Mount Zion was trending on Nigerian Twitter and more stories. [Read on »]( [1 month after NITDA deadline, Nigerian startups appear not fully complaint with online data privacy policy]( In January 2019, Nigeria's ICT policy agency, NITDA released the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) draft to provide a framework for safeguarding the rights of persons to data privacy. Following the April 25 deadline for implementation, it seems most Nigerian internet startups are still not fully complaint. [Read on »]( [MTN Nigeria lists on the Nigerian Stock Exchange today, still has more hurdles to cross]( As part resolution of its 3-year-long battle with the Nigerian Communications Commission, MTN Nigeria, on Thursday finally listed on the local stock exchange. However, the telecoms giant still has ongoing battles to surmount [Read on »]( [MTN gets super-agent license from CBN, in bid for a larger share of Nigeria’s financial services space]( With its super-agent licence, MTN Nigeria is getting more channels to offer financial services to Nigerians. [Read on »]( [How religious influencers are using social media to gain followers for their faith]( Last week, the Catholic Church in Germany reportedly revealed plans to train 50 new priests to become social media influencers through a two-day “smart camp”. On the backdrop of this, we take a closer look into the phenomenon of religious influencers on social media [Read on »]( [Gona is offering to bring cashless payments and efficiency into public transportation in Nigeria]( Beyond enabling seamless cashless payments in the Nigerian public transportation system, Gona wants to bring overall efficiency into the system. [Read on »]( [Despite seeming reforms, Nigeria still does not have a functional railway ticketing system]( Nearly a year after notices were sent out, there is still no functional e-ticketing system for Nigeria's railway [Read on »]( [Ethnic bias and power tussle surround appointment of new leadership in Computer Village, Ikeja]( A deeper dive into the situation around the recent installation of traditional market leaders (Iyaloja and Babaloja) in Nigeria's foremost ICT market, Computer Village, Ikeja [Read on »]( If you have any thoughts, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to hit the reply button; I'd love to hear from you. Muyiwa Matuluko Editor-in-Chief, Techpoint.Africa Copyright © 2019 Techpoint Africa, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the Techpoint.africa newsletter. Our mailing address is: Techpoint Africa 8 Adebayo Mokuolu street, beside Hotel Newcastle, Anthony VillageLagos 100232 Nigeria [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Mailchimp Email Marketing](