Nigeria’s journey to the Petroleum Industry Act started in 2000 under President Olusegun Obasanjo, who inaugurated an oil and gas sector reform implementation committee. The committee’s report formed the basis of the first Petroleum Industry Bill eight years later. It …
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On Thursday 1st of July 2021, the National Assembly finally passed into law, the long-overdue Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, after many attempts to rewrite, restructure and modify the bill to suit the various sectors involved. First proposed to the national …
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We frequently come across the term “inflation.” In March 2020, we saw governments and central planners around the world shut down the economy in response to the global pandemic. This was subsequently followed by a global recession, with 3 million …
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In the 1700s, the gold rush in southeast Brazil created a high demand for mining labour. The Minas Gerais region became one of the main destinations for African slaves. For the first half of the century, demand was met …
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We all woke up to a different world today with the shocking images of Monday’s bungled US evacuation from Kabul still overflowing our social media feeds and this nagging feeling that something big, really big happened that we still don’t
Angola’s parliament recently approved a bill to review the country’s constitution 11 years after its promulgation.
President João Lourenço used his constitutional prerogative to initiate a review process by sending a proposal for revision to parliament in early March. His …
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“There’s famine now in Tigray.” That 10 June 2021 declaration by the UN’s most senior humanitarian official was the clearest indication yet that embattled Tigray faced a severe food emergency. Close to five million Tigrayans were subsequently placed under watch …
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Ghana’s Ministry of Health wants to digitise records in all of Ghana’s public and (religious) mission-owned hospitals and clinics and thus make paper folders for patients a thing of the past. The idea is good, and the plan itself is …
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One of the major barriers hampering universal electrification in sub-Saharan Africa is the fact that national utility companies often find little incentive to extend the national grid to rural areas since it’s financially unfeasible. Indeed, expanding the grid to these …
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Chatbots are becoming an integral part of service provision around the world. Chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate a conversation – both voice and text – with human users, especially over the internet. They are described as a never-sleeping, …
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