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…Infrastructure Maintenance with Tunde Obileye Almost every home is likely to have one or more extension lead or cord trailing through parts of the house. When limited to just a handful of sockets in any room, it can prove challenging to supply power to all the essential appliances. While extension leads and cords are, undoubtedly, […]

For decades, Nigeria has flared billions of dollars’ worth of natural gas into the atmosphere, a symbol of misaligned incentives, underdeveloped infrastructure, and chronic underinvestment. Now, as artificial intelligence rewires the global economy and sends power demand surging to levels that are straining grids from Virginia to Singapore, a debate is forming in boardrooms and […]

This edition of Nigeria Policy Watch deep dives into one of the most important unanswered questions in Nigeria’s economic history: how did a country whose manufacturing sector once accounted for more than one-fifth of GDP end up with factories contributing barely 8 percent of national output today? In the early 1980s, industrial estates expanded across […]

Event DetailsVenue: Federal Palace Hotel, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.Date: Thursday, June 18th, 2026Time: 09:00 AM – 1.00 PM (WAT) To: Nigerian Business Leaders, Start-ups, Entrepreneurs, Policy Makers, Financial Institutions, Artists, Trade and Investment Institutions, The Diplomatic Community, Academics, International Organizations, IGOs, and Angel Investors.We are proud to unveil the World Business Angels […]

President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of IGP Olatunji Rilwanu Disu in February 2026 was widely praised across Nigeria as an example of placing a “square peg in a square hole.” Security experts, civil society groups, and the general public collectively welcomed the decision, viewing it as a deliberate shift away from purely administrative leadership toward a […]

Getting students to learn about financial literacy early in life is fundamental, as it equips students with the tools required for long-term financial independence. Determined to drive the need development trajectory, Emerging Africa Group, Africa’s leading Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) focused Investment financing group, has organised a one-day Investment and Entrepreneurial training for students […]

MTN’s unusual public trial offers a rare glimpse into how smartphones, social media and cloud services are quietly reshaping data consumption. For years, millions of Nigerians have shared the same frustration. A data bundle that once lasted weeks now disappears in days. Sometimes hours. The complaints have become so common that they have spawned countless […]

…faults Tinubu on rising insecurity  Hakeem Baba-Ahmed,The National Leader of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu’s handling of insecurity, declaring that the worsening wave of kidnappings, violent attacks and school abductions across Nigeria demonstrates a failure of leadership and government protection. He warned that no part of […]

It was another Sunday. The kind of Sunday where you spend hours in church and by the time you are done, hunger is no longer a suggestion. It is a full-blown emergency. At that point, I knew there was no way I was making it home before eating something. So I did what any reasonable […]

Woman-led Nigerian agri-tech company named top recipient among seven startups as Cascador deploys over $5 million to high-impact entrepreneurs Lagos, Nigeria — Agriarche Limited, a Nigerian agri-tech company that gives food processors, aggregators, and exporters reliable, traceable access to quality agricultural commodities at scale across Northern Nigeria, has been named the largest funding recipient at […]