Deliberate policy contributed to Nigeria’s fintech boom. The open question is whether that playbook can work for agriculture, health, and climate too. Nigeria’s technology ecosystem has enormous potential to extend beyond fintech, which currently accounts for an estimated 36–60% of the country’s tech sector, depending on whether you count by number of startups or by
Cocoa is one of Nigeria’s major non-oil export commodities contributing significantly to rural development, revenue earnings and overall socioeconomic development. Initially (starting from the 1870s) farmers in southwestern states such as Ondo, Ogun, Osun, and Oyo cultivated cocoa on a relatively small scale. Due in large part to visionary leadership by Obafemi Awolowo, a prominent
Most people have a fair idea of what the roles of finance ministers are; managing government finances, formulating and overseeing economic policies, financial regulation amongst many other important roles. While I think we currently do not have the political infrastructure for a finance minister, any finance minister to optimally deliver on core expectations, at the
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