3+ hour ago  (739+ words) A decade is a long time to live in darkness. In Etche LGA of Rivers state, it was a daily life. There is a line from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises where the villain says he never saw light…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (389+ words) The second edition of the Inclusive FinTech Forum (IFF) was held from February 24 to 26, 2025, in Kigali, Rwanda, bringing together close to 3,000 delegates from Africa and beyond to discuss the future of financial inclusion and digital finance. The three-day forum, hosted…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (637+ words) The rise of tech-driven entrepreneurship in Nigeria's regulated online markets'TheCable The rise of tech-driven entrepreneurship in Nigeria's regulated online markets There is a Lagos that tourists don't see. Not the gridlock on the Third Mainland Bridge or the noise of…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (670+ words) There are two conversations Nigerians have about oil. The first is nostalgic. Oil financed highways, universities, airports and decades of public spending. It positioned Nigeria as a continental heavyweight and underwrote the national budget for generations. Both conversations are true....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (436+ words) The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) says law enforcement agencies across 16 African nations have arrested 651 suspects and recovered over $4.3 million during a crackdown on online fraud. The organisation said the sting, codenamed Operation Red Card 2.0, ran from December 8, 2025, to January…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (399+ words) Matthew Akande, a 37-year-old Nigerian, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a United States court for stealing taxpayers" information to obtain fraudulent tax refunds worth $1.3 million. Indira Talwani, a US district court judge in Boston, sentenced Akande to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (170+ words) Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, has congratulated Esther Etiyemonu, a student at Lagos State Senior Model College Igbokuta, for emerging as a one-day governor of the state. In a'post shared on X, Sanwo-Olu said he hosted Etiyemonu on Monday after…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (388+ words) The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) has asked the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) to address what it described as "monopolistic tendencies" in the midstream and downstream oil sector. Yusuf Othman, NARTO president, spoke during…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (316+ words) BY COLLINS OKEKE AND GUKONGOZI ESTHER The Current Legal Framework This created a fundamental problem. Nigeria had invested in technology and raised citizens" expectations about transparency, but the legal framework made electronic transmission optional rather than mandatory. The law permitted…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (420+ words) Concert for Change, a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting orphans and children with disabilities, has announced the disbursement of N55 million to five charitable organisations across Nigeria. The disbursement was announced during a formal ceremony on Wednesday in Lagos, where representatives…...