Latest Articles by Ishioma Emi

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  The role of capital markets in Africa’s post-covid recovery. “Capital markets are key in mobilizing private capital to finance COVID recovery beyond growth and sustainable economic transformation.” -Gaëlle Arenson, Editor-in-Chief, Jeune Afrique Business+. The capital market plays a significant role in the global economy.
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  #AFIS2021: How to reinvent insurance in Africa. Africa’s insurance industry has only about 3 percent subscription penetration across the continent compared to the telecoms sector, which has over 72 percent subscription penetration in Africa.
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  Weekly Economic Index: COVID-19 pandemic made a recession inevitable for Nigeria in 2020. In a recent interview, Ibukun Opeodu ICIR, an economic expert with Oando Plc., explains that “lockdowns and restrictions to movement imposed in Nigeria’s economic hub (Lagos) and Capital (Abuja) inevitably resulted in reduced economic activity...
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  Why Nigeria’s economy is still unstable despite a sudden exit from recession. Nigeria’s exit from recession in the fourth quarter of 2020 might have come as a surprise to many but can be easily explained. Firstly, the growth recorded was negligible at just 0.1 percent.
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  Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou wins the 2020 Ibrahim Leadership Prize. On Monday, 8 February 2021, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation awarded Mahamadou Issoufou with the 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for driving the country to the “path of progress.” Issoufou is the outgoing...
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  Weekly Economic Index: Nigeria’s excessive dependence on crude could collapse the economy. Nigeria’s huge economic dependence on crude oil is gradually making it volatile to events within the global oil market.
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  Oil Marketers oppose the fuel importation proposal by Dangote Group. A body of oil merchants known as the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) has opposed a proposal by the Dangote Group, recently tendered to the Nigerian Senate.