If You No Get Money, Hide Your Face The Toxic Underbelly of Nigeria’s Employment System
A sizeable portion of millennials in Nigeria are currently being pushed to extremes in the name of ‘being gainfully employed’.
Economics
Women Like Olabisi The Understated Significance of Nigerian Market Women
Despite their history of being at the forefront of social transitions, the economic and political contributions of market women in Nigeria have long been ignored and buried.
What Does a Future-Ready Africa Need? Change: A Terrifying Story
To adequately prepare for the future of work, African professionals will have to reimagine what education and professional life mean.
The Grind Goes Online Work in the Digital Economy
The digital economy has changed the rules of the game for all stakeholders in the labour market. Countries in the global south like Nigeria need to not only recognize the new rules but use them to their advantage.
Who’s Afraid of Saving Money? The Political Economy of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
Nigeria's sovereign wealth fund has the important objective of addressing critical issues in relation to the Nigerian economy and is, perhaps, the most important fiscal initiative from the Nigerian federal government in the last decade.
African Tech for African Problems Should We Be Celebrating Big Tech in Africa?
The African tech industry still struggles to define itself: what is African tech? How do you define African tech? What qualifies as an African tech company?
Disinformation Era The Politics of Information in the Digital Age
Disinformation has increasingly become a problem in Nigeria. The stakes in Nigerian politics have always been high, and the information warfare is simply the latest development in political manipulation.
Connection Timed Out Nigeria's Internet Problem
The Internet’s growth remains on the fast track mostly in the Western Hemisphere but, for most countries in Africa, Internet development falters and often depends on Western innovation or intervention. Nigeria is not exempt from this.
Africa’s Misinformation Struggles The Impact of Misinformation on Africa and African Media
The major damage of misinformation in Africa will not be press regulation, but that the public may come to distrust all news, including real news.
Maga Don Pay Nigeria's Culture of Cybercrime
Is the fight against cybercrime in Nigeria and other forms of advanced fee fraud yielding positive results or is it simply propaganda?