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Engendering financial inclusion through BVN
In furtherance of its efforts in the development of a safe, reliable and efficient payments system in the country,…
Checking excesses of microfinance banks
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (NDIC) latest financials show that microfinance banks (MFBs) invested their…
Rethinking Nigeria’s foreign policy
As a relatively new nation in the 1960s, Nigeria’s foreign policy elite viewed foreign policy in largely emblematic…
Growing opportunities in messaging apps
The number of users of mobile voice-over internet protocol (mVoIP) is set to reach 1 billion by 2017 (or one in…
2015 elections and the economy
Nigeria is expected to go to the polls in about four weeks to elect a president, several governors and about 460…
Leveraging e-learning for more inclusive education
The continued disruption of academic activities in parts of Nigeria’s north-east region occasioned by insecurity in…
Hedging dwindling oil revenue: The Lagos example
The dwindling oil revenue to the Federal Government arising from falling crude oil price in the international…
New space for Nigerian art
The landscape for contemporary Nigerian art is taking a new form as some hotels are already taking interest in what…
Politicians must guard their utterances
Nigeria’s electioneering campaigns have over time been characterised by negative utterances, unguarded statements…
Government security, other agencies must be non-partisan
It is reassuring that all the political parties and their candidates are mouthing their willingness to ensure that…
Leaders, history and memories
Nigeria, no doubt, is fast becoming a political theatre of the absurd. On account of a predominant collective…
Nigeria’s proposed recourse to the debt market
In a season of minimal cheer that has essentially been spawned by declining oil prices and the devaluation of the…