Category Archives: Food for thought

MTN Foundation opens call for nominations for ‘What Can We Do Together’

MTN Foundation is pleased to announce a call for nominations for What Can We Do Together phase four (aka WCWDT 4.0). The Foundation is encouraging every Nigerian to elect a community, which they believe should benefit from one of a number of development projects. This year, nominations are sought for solar-powered boreholes and ICT laboratories […]

COVID: Between A Pandemic-Sized Rock And An Impoverished Hard Place by Iretomiwa Akintunde-Johnson

COVID-19 has thundered through the world. We will speak of the pandemic for centuries to come. When children have their devices floating in the air as they waddle to school, and robots have replaced humans in many positions at the workplace, the virus that pushed the world to its knees will be one of the […]

Cashless 2.0: The Second Coming of Cashless and the Rise of “Fintechs” by Akeem Lawal

On the 21st of February this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced the re-introduction of the Cashless policy. The cashless policy of the CBN, first introduced in January 2012, is aimed at achieving three main objectives; First, the development and modernization of Nigeria’s payment systems to drive economic development, secondly providing more efficient transaction […]