Tag: Nigeria
E-commerce in Nigeria: how Jumia, Kaymu and Jovago are taking over Africa’s biggest market
If Nigeria is “Africa’s India”, it’s for the sheer size of the market – 170m people now, 440m by 2050 – and because with a GDP growing between 4.5 and 9% each year over the past decade, there is now a small but growing part
Read MoreE-commerce In Nigeria -What the Future holds
Today, thanks to e-payment solution companies like MasterCard, InterSwitch, VisaCard and e-transact, Nigerians can not only pay, withdraw or transfer funds anywhere in the country, they can also make purchases with their e-cards. This is a welcome development, especially in
Read MoreDecolonising The Mind: On Colonial Trauma And Corruption
In his response to my article entitled “Thinking Through the Corruption Complex with Frantz Fanon” of 30 August 2010, Akin Adesokan suggests that I am wrong to believe that colonial trauma is a factor in any concerted effort to understand
Read MoreNigeria: Between Halloween and our culture
The last day of October, every year, to the people of Canada, Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom, is the Halloween Day. This has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain. Halloween activities commonly include wearing scary
Read MoreReligious Crisis, Terrorism, and Our Security.
This must be a very difficult time for Nigerians and Nigeria itself, especially with recent events such as; Bauchi crisis (Kala Kato), the attempt to blow up flight 253 by Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, the second Nigerian who caused a security
Read MoreCrime, Justice and Punishment: Bode George as a Case Study
Since the BIG news broke, I have been agonising. I don’t know whether I should consider this as a victory, justice, retribution, or insult. Like many Nigerians, home and abroad who heard or read the news of Bode George and
Read MoreAspects Of “Maternal Home System” In African Tradition
“A contested culture”, says Frantz Fanon, “is a dead culture”. Period! The “Maternal home system”, just like the African extended family system that I’d written about in the past should be of research interest to scholars and individuals who are
Read MoreReforming Police and Policing Reforms.
I have watched and heard a lot about the recommendations of the police reform committee chaired by M D Yusuf. I also watched a programme on AIT (Focus Nigeria) on the 21st April 2009 were the chairman of the police
Read MoreNigeria: The Role of Education in the Service Industry
The educational system in Nigeria has been seriously battered by the failure of the socio-political system. Politics is an important factor in the development of nations and where the political class and political policies have failed, one of the most
Read MoreManaging The African Environment
In the context of this very writing, environment would be defined in the sense of both the biotic and abiotic. It is the entire conglomeration of the natural habitat—the surroundings, influences and conditions wherein human beings live and interact. That
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