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Podcast: Covid, conflict and oil – a Nigerian economic story
While the Government’s response had proved effective at containing the Ebola virus just a handful of years earlier, Dr. Adeniran describes how it soon became clear that this new shock…
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Promoting an effective tobacco tax system to save lives and the environment
‘Tobacco use is killing us and our planet’! Annually, tobacco use kills about 8 million people globally and 29,000 people in Nigeria. The economic costs of tobacco attributable disease on…
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New Digital Governance Platform: Why It Matters For Policymakers
Digital innovations are advancing at a rapid pace, connecting businesses, individuals, governments around the world and creating exciting opportunities. These opportunities provide numerous benefits and major gains in terms of…
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AI & Gender – Bridging the gap
The rapid growth of AI is swiftly changing the world of work and business. Embedded in this growth is its potential to create new opportunities for gender equality. However, if…
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Developing an effective data governance framework to deliver African digital potentials
Rapid digitalization has the potential to enhance structural transformation among African countries as well as galvanize progress on regional developments like the recent African Continental Free Trade Area. However, these…
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Africa: Key issues to track in 2022
Africa enters 2022 with a long and urgent to-do list. In this blog, Adedeji Adeniran joins other experts to outline key political, economic, security and health issues the continent must…
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COP26: Why reducing carbon emissions is not enough
The efforts by world leaders – or lack thereof – has left us with only a 60% chance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5ºC by 2050. A chance that the…
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An Update on the Nigerian Electrification Project: Electrifying Nigeria’s most underserved
The Nigerian Electrification Project (NEP) is a federal government scheme designed in 2018 with the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and other partners to provide energy access to…
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Mobilising Community Support for Education: Lessons from the Igbajo Community in Nigeria
How can policymakers spur communal investment in education when benefits are shared among all, regardless of contributions? A case study of the Igbajo community in Nigeria’s Osun State finds an…
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Sport and Economy: The Fate of Developing Nigeria
Ever wondered why some countries win medals while others do not? Neither do they have the ability to win medals if they participate in sports event such as the Olympics?…
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Digital Governance Index
With the explosion in digital technologies and data, countries across are grappling with effective ways to address the threats emerging in the digital space as well as provide supportive structure…
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Avoiding extremes in data governance: an Interview with Adedeji Adeniran
Data governance remains a difficult concept to unpack even as efforts to understand what good data governance looks like have recently multiplied across the world. CSEA is leading a number…
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Quantifying the impact on Nigeria of the African Continental Free Trade Area
Nigeria—the largest economy in Africa—signed the AfCFTA on July 7, 2019, becoming the 34th member of the trading bloc. Under the AfCFTA, Nigeria stands to gain from increased access to cheaper…
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Medical Brain Drain in Nigeria and its impact on Sustainable Development Goal 3
The Nigerian health system has suffered several setbacks. It is vastly under-resourced in terms of personnel and medical infrastructure. While this is a widespread problem, conditions in rural areas are…
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Nigeria’s Electrification Roadmap: After Two Years, Where Does It Stand?
The Nigerian government and German energy company Siemens AG signed the Nigerian Electrification Roadmap (NER) partnership, also known as the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) in 2019. The Roadmap contains technical…
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AfCFTA: Investments in Africa’s Transport, Logistics Infrastructure Crucial For Regional Connectivity
Of all the countries on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, Egypt seems to have been the first in which either agriculture or manufactures were cultivated and improved to any…
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