2021 Socio-Economic Outlook: Covid Fatigue and Moving Past Stage One

If you are wondering what Stage One means, it’s Tayo Fagbule’s (Editor of BusinessDay) description of how government tends to focus on responding to the immediate outcomes of an event and not the broader and longer-term effect of such events – case…

The Role of Entrepreneurship in Diversifying the Nigerian Economy

Last month, just around the time Nigeria officially slipped into a recession, my dear friend Akanimoh thought it would be a good idea to talk about The Role of Entrepreneurship in Diversifying Nigeria’s Economy – just as well that the conversation theme…

Entrepreneurship in Africa – A Ghanaian & Zimbabwean Lens

Entrepreneurship has been bandied around as the solution to Africa’s development and so in the spirit of the narrative, I decided to hear entrepreneurs’ experiences from other African countries. Speaking to Tawanda Kembo from Zimbabwe and Nathan Lee-Winans Annobi from Ghana. Tawanda…

Every Entrepreneur in Africa Deserves Access to Finance

It was an interesting and enlightening conversation with Business entrepreneur and tech enthusiast – Vital Sounouvou. Vital is the Founder and CEO of Exportunity Group, a fintech that facilitates B2C and B2B trade across Africa. Describing himself and his partners at the…

Addressing Nigeria’s youth unemployment: Nostalgic lessons from an 18-year old

November is the month of the Global Entrepreneurship Week and in light of that, Entrepreneurship is the broad discussion theme on the Social Conscience talk-show for the month. With this, the conversations kicked off with the topic, ‘Entrepreneurship or Employability – Addressing…

The Nigerian Youth Renaissance & Hope as a Survival Currency

Democracy reportedly has its early origins from Greece and history tells us that the Greeks developed a ‘’three-way Democratic Code’’ which was used to assess the behaviour and eligibility of electors within Athens & Sparta. The groups of people identified, and which…

Nigerian Police Brutality: What really needs to give?

Police brutality is not a phenomenon that’s peculiar to Nigeria and the protests in the United States to end police brutality in the months preceding the EndSARS protests were testament to that. However, in the thick of the peaceful protests by young…

Empowering the African Youth: The case for Mental Independence

October 10 was World Mental Health Day, and it occurred to me that in these parts of the world, mental health is not a “thing”. A couple of years ago, I recall feeling tired, generally unwell and a bit cranky – being…

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