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By Ike.S Anison Historically, the formal banking sector’s penetration in Africa has been relatively low. And, while there has been significant improvement in this area in recent years, there is still a significant portion of the population on the continent who are unbanked or lack access to financial services. According to the World Bank, approximately 350 million adults in sub-Saharan Africa are still unbanked, accounting for 17% of the 2 billion global unbanked population. This has largely been due to a struggle to tap into the continent’s low-income segment, the widest proportion of the population. Consumers within this market feel

By Olutayo Irantiola In the last few weeks, many markets across Lagos State have been locked and opened by the Ministry of Environment and the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). There is no gainsaying that these markets are due for closure. However, what next after the re-opening of the markets? One of the places in town synonymous with huge refuse generation is the markets. Many times, markets are considered to belong to nobody; as such, traders want their immediate environment habitable for their businesses, and at the close of the day, they “drop” the byproducts of their wares somewhere, mainly

By Nneka Okumazie Revolutions are often based on change, but the success of any revolution is not just the change of power. Africa has been running on the assumption of revolution for new power for decades but no African country has gone far with replacements of people in power across levels of government. Two of the factors that make revolutions succeed are great ideas and cooperation. There might be a cap on how great an idea is or its interval to maturity, but the greater the idea the better the chances for success of the revolution, even with minimal cooperation.

By Adedapo Adesanya President Muhammadu Buhari has again approved the indefinite postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census. Mr Buhari made this known after a meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the National Population Commission (NPC) on Friday night. He said the earlier scheduled census, which was to hold from May 3-7, would be determined by the incoming administration. The 2023 national census, which would have been the country’s first in 17 years, was initially scheduled from March 29 to April 2, but it was moved to May 2023 due to the 2023 general

By Adedapo Adesanya The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed that the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be used throughout the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament set to commence next month in Cameroon. This will be the first time that the technology will be used for the entire duration of the regional football tournament as it was first introduced during the 2019 edition of the AFCON in Egypt, at the knockout stages of the competition to the final. There was also a plan for the system to be used in the 2019 CAF Champions League final between

By Adedapo Adesanya The journey of the Nigerian Naira into the N500/$1 region at the unregulated segment of the foreign exchange (forex) market is just a step away. On Thursday, the Naira was at the borderline as the recent FX liquidity squeeze in the system caused by the devaluation of the currency by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) further crushed the local currency against the greenback by N1 to sell at N499/$1 at the black market. At the preceding trading day, the domestic was sold against the United States Dollar at N498/$1 but the pressure mounting on the Naira

By Dipo Olowookere Leading GSM service provider in Nigeria, MTN Group, is yet to formally file an application for its planned listing of $500 million (N153 billion) worth of its shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) this year. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the NSE, the two major regulatory agencies in the nation’s capital market, are yet to receive formal application from the telco giant. MTN Group, which was initially fined N1.04 trillion for failing to disconnect unregistered subscribers on its network, later had the fine reduced to

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Federal Government has been advised to be very serious with its economic diversification strategy as it would do the nation a greater good. Executive Director and co-founder of Sahara Group, Mr Tonye Cole, gave this charge ahead of the Africa CEO Forum, which commences on Monday, March 26, 2018, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Mr Cole hopes to use the occasion to draw global attention to the need for diversification and collaboration in the quest for sustaining Nigeria’s economic growth. The Africa CEO Forum is an annual gathering of the influential African and international CEOs, bankers and investors

By Jerome-Mario Utomi To understand more fully where this second part is headed, I will encourage readers to search and read a report titled; Scientific and Technological Innovations In Biafra (1967-1970), as it also gave a big helping hands to the first part and chiefly provided the step by step accounts of how the nation’s education sector originally/fundamentally went into ‘trouble. With this point highlighted, let’s focus on other accounts as history further points at how successive administrations in Nigeria (military and civilian alike) defined learning too narrowly in a manner devoid of process and outcome fairness. Beginning with the

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Zenith Bank Plc has continued to record strong performance despite the various challenges it has to deal with. In its 2017 half-year earnings released today, the lender declared a profit of N75.317 billion compared with N35.467 billion recorded in the first half of last year, representing growth of about 112.4 percent. In the same vein, the financial institution said its gross earning appreciated by 77 percent, growing from N214.812 billion as at June 30, 2016, to N380.440 billion on June 30, 2017. Also, trading income, which recorded a N864 million loss last year, appreciated to N65.318 billion

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) on Monday, August 16, 2021, after years of back-and-forth movement, an Act which provides legal, governance, regulatory and fiscal framework for the Nigerian petroleum industry and development of host communities, my recent ‘sojourn’ in the creeks of Niger Delta region, South-South geo-political zone, Nigeria, in the past one month or thereabout has strengthened my belief that nothing has changed. Aside from raising consciousness that the poor level of infrastructural and socio-economic development in the region is an indication of sustained poor management