Tag: nigeria

• Nigeria is now the No.2 bitcoin market on this fast-growing global marketplace

  February 14, 2021

  During the police brutality protests in Nigeria in October, bitcoin saved the day when the government shut out protesters from using local payment platforms for collecting donations to support it.… more ›

• Undressing for redress: the significance of Nigerian women’s naked protests

  September 9, 2020

  Social media went abuzz on July 23, 2020, when hundreds of women – mostly naked – staged a protest in the northwestern state of Kaduna, Nigeria. Wailing and rolling on… more ›

• Wealthy Nigerians are buying up passports for cash from Caribbean nations to beat visa rules

  September 6, 2020

  A year ago, the office of Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) in the small Caribbean island nation  of St. Lucia had received no applications from any Africans in its nearly… more ›

• Replacing CFA with Eco ‘challenges the sovereignty’ of Nigerian naira

  June 30, 2020

  The Francophone countries coming together to replace the colonial currency, the CFA Franc with the Eco, may be “a major step forward and a positive thing,” says Andrew S. Nevin,… more ›

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• How Google created a Nigerian voice and accent for Maps

  August 4, 2019

  Directions and local street names, previously mispronounced by a default American or British accent, were now offered in a familiar accent with a new “Nigerian English” option. Novel as it… more ›

• The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality

  July 14, 2019

  On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at… more ›

• Africa’s desperate youth are getting high on…

  May 13, 2018

  Gutter water isn’t the only dangerous cocktail of drugs which a generation of young Africans use to get their high or fix for relatively cheap. Everything from lizard dung and… more ›

• Uber drivers in Lagos are using a fake GPS app to…

  January 21, 2018

  Uber drivers in Lagos are using a fake GPS app to inflate rider fares » Some Uber drivers in Lagos have been using a fake GPS itinerary app to illicitly… more ›