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Nigeria

tongue control

Africa faces a balancing act on social media regulation

Protests have greeted the Nigerian Senate's introduction of an extensive fake-news bill. ...

aquisition inquisition

Telling the full story of African art just got harder

African art is going through an incredible renaissance in the US. Currently director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Gus Casely-Hayford ... sat down with The Africa Report to explain in his own words how fast and deep the change is.

Mission Impossible?

Nigeria’s Innoson: making cars or selling a feeling?

A Nigerian carmaker with Chinese technical partners, working out of a less-than-ideal semi-rural location in Umudim, Nnewi, plans to not only ... out-compete Toyota and Honda in annual new car sales, but also to eventually displace used car imports.

Vanity Fair

Nigeria’s World Bank business ranking conceals obstacles on the ground

Nigeria has made some progress in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking for 2020, moving up 15 places to be ranked 131 globally out ... of 190 countries in the world.

violence rules

Nigeria’s ruling APC starts to push PDP out of electoral strongholds

Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) ran an tough campaign in the Niger Delta’s governorship elections to win the People's Democratic ... Party (PDP) stronghold of Bayelsa for the very first time in the party’s history.

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Cash still king

South Africans show their scepticism over benefits of financial services

South Africans are significantly less confident that financial services can help make the country more prosperous compared with Kenyans and Nigerians, ... according to the Financial Prosperity Barometer published on November 25 by online payment service provider PayU.

Fintech fight

China-backed OPay bets big on Nigeria’s fintech opportunities

Chinese investors are backing a start-up that launched in Nigeria's fintech space in 2018 with $120m, just as MTN readies to enter the mobile ... money business in the country.

mute point

Calls to use Nigerian languages at school are going unheard

English and pidgin, are spreading and dominating other Nigerian languages. ...

plank walk

Fighting piracy in the Gulf of Guinea needs a radical rethink

On the most basic level, illegal fishing destroys fishers’ livelihoods, forcing some into piracy simply to earn an income.

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The “French Colonial Tax”: A misleading heuristic for understanding Françafrique

Politicians in francophone countries may rail against the CFA franc, but more for a quick popular win than genuine desire for change. ...

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