The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said the country’s first digital currency, eNaira, must be accepted as a form of payment by all merchants and business outlets. The apex bank said it would launch the pilot scheme of eNaira by October 1, 2021, with Bitt Inc., a Barbados-based fintech firm, as its technical partner. […]

Children under the age of 2 are not getting the food or nutrients they need to thrive and grow well, leading to irreversible developmental harm, according to a new report released by UNICEF Fed to Fail? The crisis of children’s diets in early life – released ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit this week […]

“In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, how do we put the women and people who have suffered the largest economic effects at the center of recovery efforts and work toward fixing long-standing inequalities, stereotypes by leveraging technology? As a nation, recovering from a global economic crisis, high unemployment, increased poverty, stagnating income growth, […]