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Clickatell and UBA launch chat banking in Nigeria
Clickatell, an authorised WhatsApp business solution provider, has announced that United Bank for Africa (UBA) will be going live with their chat banking solution – Leo on WhatsApp
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Benin is the latest African nation taxing the internet
The new law has been denounced, with citizens and advocates using the hashtag #Taxepamesmo (“Don’t tax my megabytes”) to call on officials to cancel the levy. The increased fees will not only burden the poorest consumers and widen the digital divide, but they will also be “disastrous” for the nation’s nascent digital economy, says ISF’s executive director Julie Owono.
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