What is Restructuring and Does Nigeria Need it? – The Essence of the Restructuring Debate in Nigeria
By Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria Introduction When I concluded plans to visit London this week, it was for the ...
African News
News
MIPAD honors outstanding achievers of African descent at Recognition Week 2022
All roads lead to New York City for the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Recognition and Awards Ceremony on Sunday, October 2nd ...
News
Thousands across Africa rally for urgent climate action, as continent gears up to host COP 27 climate talks
Thousands of activists and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis across Africa are taking part in multiple actions across the continent, ...
News
African Women Impact Fund launches with USD$60m commitment to drive inclusive investment environment
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Standard Bank Group, with the support of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), ...
News
ECOWAS, Nigeria, Morocco sign MoU for Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline megaproject
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Thursday 15 September in Rabat, Morocco between ECOWAS, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Kingdom ...
Business
Islamic Finance: Move towards open banking set to accelerate
Islamic finance professionals predict regulation of open banking will expand New research shows that most leading Islamic finance professionals expect the sector to ...
Islamic Finance: Move towards open banking set to accelerate
Islamic finance professionals predict regulation of open banking will expand New research shows that most leading Islamic finance professionals expect the sector to ...
People & Politics
Article
What does the newly introduced rotavirus vaccine mean for Nigerian children?
By Dr. Obinna Ebirim, Senior Advocacy officer, Niyel Passing stool or pooing often can kill – literally. This is the case for thousands ...
Article
State’s developmental role puts procurement at centre of economy
By Percy Letwaba, Public Sector Lead at SAP Africa Following years of economic hardship caused largely by the pandemic and exacerbated by the ...
Article
Africa can recoup 50% of pandemic GDP losses by using evidence-based ‘accelerated learning’ to help children catch up
Global study highlights key lessons from a decade of accelerated learning across Africa condensing up to three school years into one for out-of-school ...
Article
Why PR professionals need to mind their language when working in Africa
By Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, Founder, Chairman, APO Group People like to generalize about Africa. Commentators often try to simplify things for international audiences by ...
Article
Bishop Kukah and the fractured microcosm
By Abiodun KOMOLAFE Let me start this rather short Tribute by stating that the story of my contact with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah ...
Article
Nigeria, political choices and consequences
By Abiodun KOMOLAFE To those who have been asking for my views on the last Osun governorship election, let me confess that the ...
Article
Much ado about Osun LG elections
By Abiodun KOMOLAFE The Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) has announced October 15, 2022 as the date for Local Government and Local Council ...
Article
Nigeria and the politics we play!
The founding fathers of politics in Nigeria came with some ideals girding them. To begin with, one would discover that almost all of ...
Article
The healing prospects of Asiwaju and Atiku’s tickets
By Hashim Suleiman Jimi Agbaje, the PDP gubernatorial candidate in Lagos state for the 2019 elections had been rumored to want to join ...
Article
APC, compensation and the needless call for more defections
Lately, the new euphoria of the not so strategic APC supporters was a celebration of the crack in the PDP where Wike, Fayose ...
Business & Economy
Business
Islamic Finance: Move towards open banking set to accelerate
Islamic finance professionals predict regulation of open banking will expand New research shows that most leading Islamic finance professionals expect the sector to ...
Business
EBID commits $450m into Côte D’Ivoire’s economy
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has so far committed a total of XOF 294 billion (equivalent of about USD450 million) ...
Business
Study: VC and private equity investment in Africa sets for new record highs
Two out of three VC and private equity executives expect $1 billion-plus rise this year and another $1.5 billion-plus by 2025 More than ...
Business
African business leaders predict better than expected GDP growth
Almost all expect Sub-Saharan Africa to exceed IMF’s 3.8% forecast this year and 4% for next year More than a quarter believe ...
Business
Extent of AfCFTA’ s success to be driven by Sub-Sovereigns and the private sector
The majority of the fastest growing cities and urban set ups in the world today are in Africa. The administrative and commercial hubs ...
