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Impactful yet invisible: How data-driven systems underplay Africa’s informal economy
Ziggy Ojiegbe More than 80 percent of employment in Nigeria and several fast-growing African economies is informal. Around 90 percent of consumer spending is conducted in cash. Nearly 60 percent of enterprises are owned by women. Yet an estimated 83…
Book Reading Series: NCDMB restates commitment to intellectual convergence
Ziggy Ojiegbe The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has restated its resolve to provide veritable platform for intellectual convergence in the petroleum and linkage industries in Nigeria. Executive Secretary, Engr Omatsola Ogbe, declared at the weekend that raising…
NCDMB commends Shell, NNPC on UNILAG Geosciences Centre of Excellence
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has expressed excitement at the state-of-the-art Geosciences Centre of Excellence at the University of Lagos, declaring it as an enduring value that transcends mere infrastructural development. In a sector where…
NLNG awards ₦250m to 51 entrepreneurs at 2026 VIBES Pitch-a-Thon
Ziggy Ojiegbe Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited has awarded ₦250 million in grants to 51 entrepreneurs following the conclusion of its 2026 Vocational Innovation and Business Empowerment Scheme (VIBES). The beneficiaries emerged from a pool of 103 participants drawn from…
Africa caught in debt squeeze as global crises push borrowing costs to record heights
Frank Okon African nations are among the hardest hit by high borrowing costs imposed by a series of global crises, including widespread pandemics, armed conflicts, and economic shocks. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war, and rising instability in the Middle…
AOW:Energy 2026: NCDMB partnership to boost African energy development
Sopuruchi Onwuka Participation of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in the upcoming AOW:Energy 2026 will advance key priorities shaping the continent’s energy future, the organizers have declared. According to a media available to Oracle Intelligence, the participation…
Nigeria–Morocco $25bn gas pipeline set for multilateral backing
WAPCO declares infrastructure readiness for extension A major trans-African energy project, the Nigeria–Morocco gas pipeline, is moving closer to reality as plans advance to secure multilateral endorsement and finalize a key intergovernmental agreement this year. The project known as the…
NCDMB, Seplat move to launch gas Centre of Excellence at DELSU
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Seplat Energy Plc have advanced plans for the take-off of a Centre of Excellence in Gas Development at Delta State University (DELSU), following a high-level engagement with the university’s…
Dangote Refinery reaches 87% installed capacity in March
As debate rages over fuel pricing in Nigeria Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s largest refining facility, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, reached 87 percent capacity utilization in March, marking its highest operational level since commencing production and signaling a major shift in efficiency…
Nigeria’s 2025/26 licensing round unfolds Africa’s global energy role
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s planned 2025/26 licensing round is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched upstream opportunities in recent years, both for the scale of assets expected and for what it signals about Africa’s evolving role in…
