{"id":235018,"date":"2026-06-01T04:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-nigerias-expanding-tech-ecosystem-leads-africas-innovation-push-report\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:54:52","slug":"africa-nigerias-expanding-tech-ecosystem-leads-africas-innovation-push-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-nigerias-expanding-tech-ecosystem-leads-africas-innovation-push-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Nigeria&#8217;s Expanding Tech Ecosystem Leads Africa&#8217;s Innovation Push &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nigeria&#8217;s growing influence in Africa&#8217;s technology and innovation ecosystem has received fresh global recognition as startups founded by Nigerians emerged strongly on Bloomberg&#8217;s latest list of 25 African Startups to Watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The ranking, which highlights innovative startups solving critical challenges across the continent, underscored Nigeria&#8217;s expanding dominance in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, health technology, education and digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Bloomberg&#8217;s inaugural list&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290456.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s growing influence in Africa&#8217;s technology and innovation ecosystem has received fresh global recognition as startups founded by Nigerians emerged strongly on Bloomberg&#8217;s latest list of 25 African Startups to Watch. The ranking, which highlights innovative startups solving critical challenges across the continent, underscored Nigeria&#8217;s expanding dominance in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6287,20170,15229,7467,9429,257,393,5761,6354,5144,254,8437],"class_list":["post-235018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-ecosystem","tag-expanding","tag-innovation","tag-leads","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-push","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}