Culled—Proshare AUGUST 23, 2019 By FDC A decade after the 2008 financial crisis, the question that has preoccupied the minds of a number of Nigerian investors is how immune Nigeria is to the looming economic slowdown. Forecasting a global recession can be tricky especially with the IMF predicting a global […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Fintech, Fiber-optics, and Financial Inclusion
August 22, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Peoples’ connection to new technology is built on the backbone of electrical and fiber-optic cables running beneath our feet—and under oceans. In 2010, most economies that were not connected to the modern, cabled internet could be found in the Pacific. However, this is no longer […]
Between Extortion and the Sanctity of Petroleum Contracts in Nigeria, DRC and Senegal
August 21, 2019 By NJ Ayuk, CEO of Centurion Law Group Last week, a commercial court in the United Kingdom gave reason to a claim by engineering company Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P&ID), which demands over USD$9 billion from the Nigerian government over a failed gas deal. The decision […]

