Best Power Grid Failure Podcasts (2025)

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What Happens When the Grid Goes Down S1E1 25:39

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Summary In this conversation, Joe and Debra Alexander discuss their book 'Lights Out America' and the importance of preparing for emergencies, particularly the loss of power. They emphasize the need for individuals to shelter in place, understand the fragility of the power grid, and develop a survival mindset. The discussion covers practical tips s…

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Nigeria’s Power Crisis Deepens on Grid Failures, Dysfunctional DisCos 19:04

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The power crisis in Nigeria is like a malignant disease, infecting the nation’s economy and causing its citizens untold suffering. Small businesses are especially vulnerable, as they struggle to shoulder the burden of providing their power, while individuals face daily frustrations and hardships. Every day, across Nigeria, the power situation has b…

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Nigeria’s Insurance Industry Sees Changes as Top 10 Insurers Post N472.6bn Premium 28:20

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A Dataset Showing Nigeria’s Top 10 insurers by gross written premium (GWP) is giving analysts the encouragement to suggest emerging dynamism in the country’s insurance landscape that could position it for enhanced growth and greater development. The data do not, however, show that insurance penetration in Africa’s most populous country and its larg…

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Macroeconomics, Legislation, Cyber Incidents Nigeria’s Biggest Risks 31:24

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In a Nigerian Economic landscape where 2024 poses major challenges for businesses, a survey conducted by multinational insurance and risk management giant, Allianz, and published in its 13th Allianz Risk Barometer, Nigerian business leaders participating in the global survey have identified changes in legislation, cyber and microeconomic developmen…

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Corporate Exodus Unravels Disastrous Buharinomics, Shaky Tinubunomics 28:25

2y ago28:25

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A disastrous eight years of Buharinomics, the clueless management of the Nigerian economy under former president Muhammadu Buhari, and a shaky Tinubunomics of the months-old current Presidency of Bola Tinubu are unravelling the extraordinary danger the Nigerian economy faces under the All Progressives Congress (APC) which appears to do more politic…

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COP28 Sets Goal to Boost Clean Energy, Phase Out Fossil Fuels 28:18

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A Raft of Initiatives is emerging and getting launched at the ongoing U.N. climate summit, COP28, in Dubai aimed at boosting clean energy and reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, details rolling out of the event show. One of the most widely supported initiatives is expected to lead to a cut in the share of fossil fuels in global energy …

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AfDB, Partners Burnish Africa as Next Frontier for Global Investors 20:59

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Africa’s economic landscape as the next frontier for global investments was on song for three days last week in Marrakech, Morocco, where the African Development Bank (AfDB) led by President Akinwumi Adesina of Nigeria, and its development partners successfully showcased the continent’s value chains to international investors, attracting more than …

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Nigeria’s Energy Transition Shows Distinct Gaps, Lacks Readiness Framework 27:36

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Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan with a 2060 target could be really challenged by the need for a clear development policy approach. Early distinct gaps noticeable in the NETP programme include a lack of holistic legal framework; no incentives for transition to clean energy; absence of disincentives for the use of dirty energy; and centralisation of…

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Foreign Investors Avoids Nigeria’s Oil Region States as FDIs Move South 26:49

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Foreign investors appear to be carefully avoiding Nigeria’s oil and gas-rich states, also called the Niger Delta region, as data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on assessment of foreign direct inflows into the nation’s sub-nationals in Q2 of 2022 show that the region’s states were among 32 subnationals which attracted zero dollar forei…

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Analysts See Boost for Economy, Consumers in Microinsurance 27:49

2y ago27:49

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Despite the challenges facing the Nigerian insurance market, microinsurance offers unique and exciting opportunities for both insurers and consumers, as well as the general economy, with its potential to reach millions of people excluded from traditional insurance products and other financial windows of the economy, multiple industry analysts have …

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Global Banking In Best Performance Since 2007 25:50

2y ago25:50

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Global Banking Posted its best performance in the last 18 months since 2007 on the back of sharp increases in interest rates in many advanced economies, including a 500-basis-point rise in the United States, a world review of the banking sector by global management consulting firm McKinsey, has shown. McKinsey’s just published “Global Banking Annua…

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African Banks Maintain Resilience amid Difficulty 29:09

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A new report by the European Investment Bank (EIB) based on a 2023 survey of Banking in Africa has found that banks on the continent have continued to show resilience despite operating in what the EIB described as “ a difficult environment.” The report titled “Uncertain Times, Resilient Banks: African Finance at a Crossroads” released under the EIB…

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AU’s G20 Membership Signals Redesign of Global Trade, Finance, Investment Architecture 28:05

2y ago28:05

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The Group Of The World’s 20 Leading Economies has admitted the African Union (AU) as a permanent member, a development termed by many as a “later than never” acknowledgement of Africa’s relevance on the global stage. Until now, South Africa was the bloc’s only G20 member and the AU had advocated for full membership for seven years in its quest to g…

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High-Interest Rate Causing Debt Distress in Emerging Economies 30:31

2y ago30:31

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The Combination Of Aggressive interest-rate hikes in developed countries, lack of sufficient affordable capital from the World Bank and a failure to consider and address the spillover effects are creating costly spillback economic consequences on low-middle income countries already at high risk of debt distress, a new analysis from One Campaign say…

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Analysts, Observers Turn Up Nose to Nigeria’s Latest Employment Data 25:11

2y ago25:11

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After Over Two Years Of anticipation from the Nigerian populace, the National Bureau of Statistics eventually published Nigeria’s labour statistics, considered an official analysis of the employment level of Africa’s most populous country. Prior to the report, economic and finance experts had difficulty assessing the real-time data on the nature of…

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Tinubu Faces ‘Political Motivation’ Vs. ‘Independence’ Choices for CBN Governor 30:15

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The new head of the Nigerian treasury, officially designated ‘Minister of Finance’, Wale Edun, will have fully taken charge. But in the quest to see that all the levers of economic policy management are well aligned, the attention of analysts and others following the unfolding direction of the Nigerian economy, will shift to the person to be appoin…

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IMF Expert Sees Lifeline for CBN’s E-naira in Mobile Money 27:37

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An expert in the Africa department of the International Monetary Fund has expressed optimism for the future success of Nigeria's e-Naira, Africa's first central bank digital currency and the world's second. Despite its underwhelming performance since its launch in October 2021, Jack Ree, a senior economist in the Africa department of the IMF, who c…

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Policymakers Snookered as African Currencies Tank Against US Dollar 25:11

2y ago25:11

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African currencies have lost ground against the US dollar year-to-date, thereby driving inflation in the import-reliant continent. Policymakers across the continent are left with limited options to arrest the decline as a result of depleting dollar reserves, according to a report adapted from DW. As US interest rate hikes make the dollar more attra…

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Otti, Geometric, AfCFTA Combo Raises Expectations over Aba Manufacturing 24:50

2+ y ago24:50

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A Crescendo Of Expectations is building up over Aba, one of Nigeria’s major manufacturing hubs, which for decades has had its stars dimmed by the ill luck of bad and incompetent governance and total neglect of the social and economic infrastructure required to make a manufacturing hub thrive. The expectations are being built around the provenance o…

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Buhari, Sylva, Kyari, NNPC’s $2.98bn Phased Refinery Repairs Hit Dead End 25:50

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Former President Muhammadu Buhari who doubled as substantive minister of petroleum resources, assisted by a junior minister, Timipre Sylva and Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited who was positioned to be running ground operations, may have been taken Nigerians for a big ride on the repairs and re…

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IMF, World Bank, Markets, Investors, Analysts Celebrate Naira’s Freedom 26:31

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The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the two Bretton Woods institutions that have spent at least 20 years breathing down Nigeria’s neck to let its currency, the Naira free, are today still in celebratory mood joined by domestic analysts and the markets who continue to express joy over the decision by the new government of Presi…

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Analysts Feast on Tinubu’s Inaugural, Positive in Outlook 28:49

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After at least eight years of the Nigerian economy drifting and feeling shortchanged by inept management, markets and economic analysts, both local and foreign, who trained their eyes and ears in expectation as Nigeria inaugurated Bola Ahmed Tinubu as its 16th president, have turned in a largely positive reception to the soundbites contained in the…

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Analyst’s Memo to Tinubu Harps on Value, Confidence for Naira 29:14

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Ahead of his inauguration as president, Business A.m. has learnt that President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his team have been inundated with tonnes of position papers and memoranda from a myriad of independent sources offering strong positions on what and how the incoming president should tackle a number of issues that have kept Nigeria’s economy …

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Nigeria to See Record Foreign Capital Inflow in H2’23, 2024 27:36

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In the biggest positive outlook on investment inflow into Nigeria by international analysts in nearly a decade, the second half of 2023 and all of 2024 has been projected as periods in the country would attract record international capital inflow following the ease of uncertainty caused by recent general elections in the country. Overall, we expect…

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Nigeria’s Construction Sector put on the Spot over Building Collapse 29:12

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The rising spate of building collapse in Nigeria, especially in Lagos, the economic nerve centre of the country, is putting worrying shivers down the spine of investors, the government and the general public primarily in regard to the enormous financial, economic and social implications. According to documents from the Building Collapse Prevention …

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Out Of Depth On Economy, Buhari To Leave N46trn Debt 29:58

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Except there is a last-minute miracle, the President Muhammadu Buhari government, already well known for being out of its depth on the economy, is very likely to hand over to the next government a highly risky economy, what economic analysts would rate as ‘junk’, and with a debt burden of at least N46 trillion. Revenue and debt management have beco…

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Nigeria’s Voter Suppression Highlights Fall in Global Freedom 29:13

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With wide reports Of voter suppression and armed attacks against voters in Nigeria’s February 25 presidential and national assembly and the March 18 governorship and state houses of assembly elections still seething, a new Freedom House report has revealed ‘global freedom’ declined for the 17th consecutive year in 2022, as 35 countries suffered det…

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Analysts Fear Economic Losses On INEC Rescheduling Of Elections 32:14

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Nigeria's 2023 general elections which began with the now disputed presidential and national assembly elections and which were to move to the gubernatorial and state assembly elections, suffered a little setback when initially scheduled for March 11, 2023, were postponed to March 18 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), citing lo…

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Eye On central Bank Of Nigeria after Supreme Court Naira Policy Ruling 36:45

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Economists And Financial experts across the country continued over the weekend to hail the decision by the Supreme Court to extend the validity of the withdrawn N1,000 and N500 currency notes until December 31, 2023, describing the ruling as a positive development and one that provides relief from the cash crunch and helps stave off the severe repe…

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Competitive, Inclusive Economy a Must-Do for Nigeria’s Next President 34:39

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One of united states leading think tanks, Brooking Institution, in an analytical article on Nigeria’s highly anticipated new government that will come into being after the forthcoming general elections, has placed a heavy weighting on fiscal and economic reforms, charging the incoming president to have an unwavering determination to implement polic…

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Businesses Stall, Nigerians in a Lurch as Currency Redesign, Cash Swap go Awry 33:12

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A supposedly harmless currency redesign policy for the Nigerian naira resulting in a cash swap program implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria turned into a full-blown crisis that came to a head in the last seven days as scarcity and persistent difficulties in accessing the new notes led to disruptions in business and economic activities and the…

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AfCFTA’s $3.4trn Potential Gets Global CEOs Keen Interest 35:12

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A Potential trade volume estimated at $3.4 trillion packed into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has now effectively received the attention and keen interest of ranking global chief executive officers from around the world, further putting pressure to deliver on African political and business leaders who will now have to do right by…

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Analysts On Navigating Nigeria’s Mixed Business Landscape In 2023 35:29

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Policymakers, business managers, and investors have been told that the landscape of the economy in 2023 remains mixed and corporate strategies in organizations navigating this landscape would require having a keen eye on a number of trends that are projected to emerge on the horizon of the Nigerian economy this year. Nigeria is in the throes of a c…

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Experts Say Capital Markets Great For States, LG Finance 32:34

3y ago32:34

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After Many Decades Of relying on a revenue sharing formula that allocates funds from a central pool that has gradually become inadequate to meet basic and developmental needs, experts have challenged Nigeria’s subnational governments, comprising states and local governments, to put on their revenue generation creative cap and expand their view to s…

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Nigeria’s 8-year Long COVID’ as Buhari Struggles With Economy 27:56

3y ago27:56

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In the Lead up to 2023, when elections are expected to take place for a new government to replace the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, now into its seven years and six months, it is becoming clearer that long before the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 in China and across the world in 2020, Nigeria has been suffering its own ‘…

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Analysts Project 13% Growth For The Nigerian Power Sector Over 5 Years 31:32

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Nigeria's Power sector is expected to record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 13 percent between 2022 and 2027, driven by government support for renewables-based power generation, according to analysts at Mordor Intelligence. The market research company, in a report “Nigeria Power Market - Growth, Trends, Covid-19 Impact, and Forecast …

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Inflation Pangs Hound Businesses, House Across Nigeria 30:44

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Rising Inflation since the beginning of 2022 has sent the global economy wobbling, driven majorly by an unusual mix of supply shocks associated with the Covid-19 pandemic and, later, the Russia-Ukraine conflict. From developed to emerging markets, multi-decades-high inflation and tighter monetary policy are threatening to tip the world into a reces…

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Queues Persist in Nigerian Banking Hall Despite Technology Wave 33:18

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Cashless transactions in Nigeria have recorded appreciable growth since 2012 when the Central Bank of Nigeria introduced its cashless policy to give bank customers ease of transactions, eliminate long queues across banking halls, curtail the excessive movement of cash, and control the volume of cash in circulation. Prior to this time, Nigerians dep…

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Nigeria Watches As All Signs Point To Global Recession 2023 26:28

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Economies across the world have taken a beating since the turn of 2022, exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, just as the world economy seemed to be recovering from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. From the US to China to the UK to Europe and emerging markets, it has been a tale of decelerated or negative headline GDP growth, spiraling in…

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Central Bank Of Nigeria Rides Opposition Waves In Naira Redesign Policy Push 33:14

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The Central Bank Of Nigeria is not going back on its decision to withdraw, redesign and reissue the higher denominations of naira banknotes despite a welter of opposition that has greeted the policy move. Last week Wednesday, the CBN announced that it has secured President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval to redesign the N200, N500, and N1,000 paper cur…

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Nigeria's DMBs Assets Grew 15.3% To N62.9trn In 2021 30:33

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With enterprise Ngr proudly presenting Nigeria’s first State of Enterprise report which measures the country’s Financial and Professional Services sector, the performance of the FPS sub-sectors in 2021 validates its pivotal role in the economy. Its particular contributions are significant in governments, businesses and people. By providing a curren…

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EMs Face Stiff Headwinds As Global Growth Slows 30:44

3y ago30:44

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As the global economy wriggles through uncertainties worsened by the protracted Russia-Ukraine war with its spillover effects seen in accelerating global inflation, aggressive tightening of monetary policies, worsening debt positions, the decline in capital importation and other adverse implications, the sharp slowdown in global growth raises the r…

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Experts Open Capital Market Solutions For University Funding 31:21

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Nigerian Public Universities'over-reliance on government direct funding has been the major cause of constant disagreements between the university staff unions and the federal government, which has come to see university funding as a millstone around its neck. These disagreements have led to lockdowns of the university system in the form of prolonge…

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Nigeria In As Global Contactless Payment Transactions Hit $10trn 37:05

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Nigeria's active young population that is increasingly technology savvy is setting it up to rapidly play in the deep end of the contactless payment revolution now seen to be racing to $10 trillion in transaction value in the next five years to 2027. According to a new study, contactless payments, the system which uses near-field communication for m…

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Nigerian States Must Empower Sources Of Revenue For IGR Expansion 31:14

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Nigerian subnational governments facing the dangerous consequences of the potential collapse of their much relied-upon revenue sourcing channel, the Federation Account Allocation Committee, must rethink their strategy and seriously consider the empowerment of different revenue sources domiciled within their boundaries. The SNGs in the country, much…

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Africa’s Climate Burden Weighs, But Financing Must Avoid Debt 27:38

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Even though it produces historically low carbon emissions and contributes the least to the global climate crisis in comparison to more industrialised continents, Africa has been hard hit by extreme climate change effects, which have seen the continent emerge as the most drought-affected region and the second most flooded area in the world. This is …

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Modular Refinery Strategy Back As Presidency Weighs Petrol Agony 27:46

3y ago27:46

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The Nigerian presidency IS contemplating a return to supporting the establishment of modular refineries mainly by small-scale operators as an option to solve the country’s obdurate petroleum agony, according to a letter from the presidency. The aim is to use the initiative to mop up hundreds of artisanal refiners that are strewn in most parts of Ni…

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Nigeria’s Aviation Capacity Deficit Stings In Airlines’ Forex Mess 27:24

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Nigeria's lack of capacity to compete in the international air travel space is responsible for its high outflow of foreign exchange to meet the needs of foreign airlines who are providing the services for international travelling passengers in Nigeria. The painful stings on the country’s already fragile foreign exchange position are at the heart of…

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Global Airlines Fancy Profits In 2023, But Outlook Gloomy For Nigerian Carriers 35:14

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Global airlines are expected to post a much lower aggregate loss this 2022, a year already in H2. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised the loss down to $9.7 billion, a sharp improvement from an earlier $42.1 billion, with global carriers expected to begin to see profit by 2023. According to IATA, forecast yields, a proxy for a…

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Inflation Exposes Buhari’s Failings As Noose Tightens On Households 28:21

3y ago28:21

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In the lame duck year of his presidency, President Muhammadu Buhari is finding out every day that all the indices of measuring his management of the economy are exposing him as lacking in the requisite capacity personally, and even in the ability to assemble men and women with the ability to deliver for him. President Buhari had assured Nigerians w…