Nigeria, Ethiopia push digitalization across Africa

Homepage > News > Business > Nigeria, Ethiopia push digitalization across Africa TL;DR: African countries like Nigeria and Ethiopia are expanding their digitalization efforts in education and digital ID. Elsewhere, in Central Asia, Kazakhstan is looking to launch a tenge-pegged stablecoin and has announced two tokenization efforts. Key Takeaways: Nigeria aims to fully digitize the authentication and verification of academic certificates. Ethiopia plans to expand its National Digital ID Program to Zambia, Mozambique, and Burundi. Kazakhstan has launched KZtg, a tenge-pegged stablecoin on Telegram. Additionally, Kazakhstan plans to tokenize the $50 million Iconic Tower complex by the end of 2026. Table of Contents: Nigeria moves academic credential checks fully online Ethiopia takes its digital ID system across Africa Kazakhstan explores stablecoin and tokenization projects FAQs Nigeria to digitalize academic credential verification Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education has announced a new process to fully authenticate academic certificates digitally, capping several months of coordinated work to implement it. The digital reform comes amid growing global momentum for digit...