By Tolu Ogunlesi The new payments system quietly integrating a continent, unleashing business innovation, and empowering central banks with transaction data & trading insights. Open your Nigerian banking app and…
By Ismaeel Ahmed The conversation about Compressed Natural Gas is not new in Nigeria. For years, governments and private operators explored its potential. We knew the technology, possessed the gas…
By Fattyma Ibrahim Dangote Petroleum Refinery's initial public offering has been marketed as a "People's IPO," with a minimum subscription of just ₦5,250. This piece argues that a low entry…
By Tolu Ogunlesi PAPSS is the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, launched by Afreximbank on 13 January 2022. Mike Ogbalu III, a Nigerian banking and fintech veteran (ex-UBA, Ecobank, First…
The UN’s overwhelming vote for Equal Earth was never just about maps. America’s lone objection made that impossible to ignore. A map is supposed to tell us where things are.…
Every society builds a place that isn’t home or work, where people can simply exist alongside one another. The sociologist Ray Oldenburg gave this idea a name in his 1989…
By Hon. Minister Mohammed Idris Mohammed Idris argues that restoring petrol subsidy would recreate the fiscal pressures, distortions and vulnerabilities that forced Nigeria to abandon the old regime. The renewed…
The APC’s 2027 campaign council blurs the line between the ruling party and the machinery of government. There is something almost wonderfully Nigerian about our election campaigns. The people who…
By Oluwatobi Ogunlesi I watched the conversation around the UBA Graduate Trainee graduation yesterday and felt compelled to offer a different perspective. A young graduate trainee stepped forward to ask…
By Kemi Adeosun The case for putting Abuja on a financial dry fast — and the nations that prove the bottom-up road works. Second of two parts. Last week I…
