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Douglas Kendyson, founder and CEO of Selar, an African creator economy platform, has publicly accused the Lagos State Inland Revenue Service (LIRS)for hounding the company with backdated royalty demands and appealed to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa to look into the situation.

For Taiwo Akinropo, HeyFood wasn’t born out of a love for restaurants. It began with a fascination for broken systems. After leaving the University of Ibadan, he built HeyFood into one of Nigeria’s leading food delivery platforms, processing more than ₦6.1 billion in transactions. Now, he’s betting on autonomous AI, believing Africa should build—not just…