Nigeria’s government must invest in digital infrastructure to reduce corruption in its budget.
- Economist and Postgraduate Supervisor, University of Lancashire
- Economist and Lecturer in Management, Keele University
Poverty is the common thread across the places experiencing terrorism in Nigeria.
Meta sous pression au Nigéria. Elle est sommée de payer des amendes, de respecter les lois sur les données personnelles et les droits des consommateurs.
Meta faces heightened scrutiny and fines from Nigerian regulators demanding respect for local data protection and consumer rights.
Chinese products that would have gone to the American market might be diverted to developing countries such as Nigeria.
Energy bill discounts have failed to meet the scale of the problem, research shows.
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Serena Williams’s investment in a Nigerian digital company shows why the country’s technology sector is attractive.
Tax cuts could ease the burden on households and small businesses that are struggling, alongside tax increases for large firms.
Although there is strength in diversity, members of ethnic groups in power distributing resources to members of their ethnic group at the expense of national growth entrench poverty in Africa.
A vicious cycle of limited opportunity and poor health.
Ideas and talent from abroad should be welcomed.
The WHO estimates that only about 15% to 25% of those in need of assistive technology products in Africa have access to them.
Nigeria risks losing its recent status as Africa’s most attractive tech hub following its decision to suspend Twitter’s operations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected businesses owned by Black, Asian and minority ethnic people. Here’s how we can help them bounce back.
Nigeria’s post COVID-19 economic recovery plan appears to be a good start. But the government’s plan leaves a lot to be desired.
As part of response to COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria has announced a lock down in three strategic states but this is going to be tough on the self employed and small scale entrepreneurs.
Tackling corruption is notoriously difficult but Nigeria is pursuing a fresh approach. Using technology, especially social media, its citizens are producing evidence to hold officials to account.
Mandatory reporting could help highlight the ethnicity pay gap in much the same way that gender pay gap reporting does.
Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
There is a huge amount of secrecy around the budgeting process at every level of the Nigerian government.
There is concern that Nigeria’s attitude towards foreign direct investors may erode inward capital flows.
Millions of dollars have been repatriated to Nigeria by Swiss authorities, but there are better ways to spend it than what the government is proposing.
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