By Osa Mbonu-Amadi In a troubled country like Nigeria, artists who fail to use their work to address the problems of the society miss a significant aspect of the duty of an artist. It appears the Nigerian-born UK-based visual artist, Akinokun Isaiah Abiola, has taken that advice. It was the same advice the civil rights […]

By Juliet Umeh As the world faces a projected shortage of 85 million software developers by 2030, with potential economic losses estimated at $5.5 trillion, digital financial services provider Moniepoint has intensified efforts to build Africa’s next generation of engineering talent through its DreamDevs Bootcamp. The company recently graduated the second cohort of the programme, […]

On Democracy Day the President promised more than fifty thousand new police officers. The pledge is welcome and overdue. But the measure behind it—how many police we keep for each citizen—is the wrong way to ask whether Nigerians will be safer.   By Philip Obazee On the morning of the twelfth of June, in an address […]

By Juliet Ebirim Lagos is set to host a major gathering of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers and business leaders from across Africa and the diaspora as the Afretrade Entrepreneur’s Festival (TAEF) 2026 holds from June 17 to 19 at Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island. Organised by Afretrade Inc., a California-based pan-African trade and investment platform, […]

For Idara Michael, community impact is often measured less by ceremony and more by what people are able to do long after an event ends.