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Africa’s financial infrastructure did not evolve like Europe’s or North America’s. In many respects, it leapfrogged legacy models altogether. Across much of the continent, mobile money, not cards, is the primary payments infrastructure. Instant payment volumes across the continent have grown at an average rate of 35% annually since 2020, and mobile money volumes now

Shalom Osiadi founded a company out of a frustration that came too close to home. In 2022, as Naira lost value against the dollar, his parents, living in Ireland, watched the real estate properties they had bought in Nigeria before emigrating lose much of their value in dollar terms, even though nothing about the physical

Abuja, Twenty‑seven‑year‑old Godiya Tumba walked several kilometres with her two children to reach a temporary health outreach in Wuro Jabbe, Adamawa State. Neither child had completed routine vaccinations. “I came because they explained why vaccines matter,” she said. “Nobody had ever told me like this before.” Her experience reflects a wider reality across Nigeria: science

Abuja, In a decisive step to accelerate Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria, on 14 April, convened ambassadors and heads of mission for its first Ambassadorial Health Diplomacy Roundtable in Abuja. The meeting mobilised diplomatic alignment, resources and accountability to support the Government of Nigeria’s health sector reform agenda under

Morning Bid: Markets light on volume and high on hopes

Morning Bid: Markets light on volume and high on hopes

Oil jumps, stocks wobble as Mideast ceasefire hangs in the balance

The U.S. military under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth killed three people Sunday in...

As 2027 presidential election approaches, there is significant and growing discontent in Northern Nigeria regarding the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu, particularly the removal of the fuel subsidy, which many in the region feel has caused severe hardship. While the North was crucial to Tinubu’s 2023 victory, providing a high percentage of his total

The strategy of using Nigerian universities and finishing in some foreign ones known as ‘split-site initiative’ will not only save cost but will free more spaces for more Nigerian scholars. This strategy is said to allow a student to start in a Nigerian university and conclude in a foreign one. This is even more important

… Names cure to polluted underground water body As demand for a pan-Niger Delta clean up and solution to mass pollution in the oil region rises, a Rivers-born Nigerian environmental scientist, Suka Momta, has unveiled what he calls solution to global environment pollution. The Ogoni-born scientist said the discovery has been tested in some polluted

Frequent change of leadership may kill the newly created regional developments, if the lessons of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) were anything to go by. The new commissions must thus be assisted to stay away from such practice. These were the highlights of the message of Samuel Ogbuku, the managing director of the NDDC

…Distributes N2bn on scholarships to 4 states, submits planks for immediate oil resumption Nigeria has lost 32 years of 96 idle oil wells in Ogoni area of Rivers State, and an estimated $226.734 billion in revenue. Now, the pipeline protection firm that has worked with communities has called for immediate resumption of oil production in

Bank Indonesia to hold rates at 4.75% through 2026 as Iran war fuels inflation...

On the outskirts of Enugu city in Southeastern Nigeria, the state government is developing new schools in communities where classrooms have long faced challenges such as inadequate infrastructure and outdated curricula. The buildings are clean-lined and modern, fitted with interactive boards, science labs, digital libraries, and innovation studios. In some, children who once hawked goods