Across Africa, the percentage of female entrepreneurs remains low, highlighting a critical gap in the continent’s entrepreneurship landscape. A 2024 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum revealed that economies …
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There is one thing missing in the picture painted by the Federal Government on the proposed Ministry of Livestock Development. When President Bola Tinubu recently set up the committee for …
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However imperfectly executed, democracy, within the contextual paradigm of popular representation by ordinary people, is the prevailing global political orthodoxy. Swathes of Africa, Australia/Oceania The post The morality and legality …
Read More »NIBSS and AI in Nigerian banking: Security, efficiency and liability – Part 2
Recently, the functioning of algorithms used by banks and financial institutions has become increasingly opaque and difficult to review. This lack of transparency has led to erroneous, arbitrary, and unfair …
Read More »Reconstructing the educational system in Nigeria: Role of private sector – Part 2
Now, the sad reality with Nigeria is not that these three legs have been paralysed. The sad reality is that these three legs have been amputated by habitually bad judgment …
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Estate planning is an essential aspect of financial management and succession planning. For Muslim families, this process must align with Sharia (Islamic) law, which provides specific guidelines on the distribution …
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That the Nigerian economy is in a shambles is an understatement. The rising cost of living, high unemployment rate, astronomic poverty index, low life expectancy, high child mortality are all …
Read More »The informal over formal
In the lore of management theory, there is an argument that an informal organisation is usually stronger and more potent than a formal administrative structure or organogram of practically every …
Read More »Ariwoola: The baleful legacy of a lamentable tenure
At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week-old decision to judicially install Hope Uzodimma as the Governor of Imo State …
Read More »Appraising passage of national minimum wage bill
The passage of the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Bill 2024 by the National Assembly is now history. The Bill, which President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has already signed into law, amended …
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