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Nigerian policy makers urged banks to turn on the taps and increase lending to stimulate the economy, or have access to a near-risk free way of making money choked off. The West African nation’s Monetary Policy Committee is using persuasion...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (THEWILL) - The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN, has asked the management of the National Assembly to withdraw the draconic guideline it set for the accreditation of journalists and media outfits intending to cover the...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (THEWILL) - It has been revealed that MTN Nigeria Communications Limited has paid a total of N235bn out of the N330bn fine imposed on it in August 2015 by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Executive Vice...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (THEWILL) - Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has approved the withdrawal of the Certificate of Recognition of a traditional ruler in the state, HRM Monday Frank Noryaa, Gbenemene Baabe. The monarch was removed following his alleged...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (THEWILL) - The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has withdrawn the 25 Certificates of Return it issued to 25 winners of the just concluded 2019 General Elections on orders from various courts across the country. INEC made...

After more than a decade in limbo, beef farmers are back in business Zimbabwe’s famed beef industry, which collapsed in the 2000s following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, is now rebounding. The Southern African country’s global beef exports resumed in 2017, 10...

Innovative projects tackle entrenched gender inequality As ride-hailing apps proliferate across the globe, the year-old An Nisa Taxi in Kenya is one of the standouts in Africa. Developed by 33-year-old Mehnaz Sarwar, An Nisa is run by women and serves female...

African women’s restricted access to quality education, knowledge and resources is preventing them from gaining leadership positions on the continent, says Togolese politician, Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, a veteran West African women’s rights activist. Another problem is that women—especially rural women—are...

President Buhari’s recent call for ‘true federalism’ has left many people confused and wondering what his real intentions were. At an award ceremony organised by the All Progressives’ Governors’ Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on May 10 2019, the President...

Mamadou Gouro Sidibé of Mali could have continued his comfortable life working for the French National Center for Scientific Research, but in 2017 he decided to return to his country to develop Lenali—a voice-based social network app. Unlike Facebook, Instagram...