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Press Release: Sensitization Workshop on ‘Understanding New Nigerian Labour Force Statistics’
In a sensitization workshop event titled “Understanding New Nigerian Labour Force Statistics,” experts and other stakeholders gathered in Abuja on Monday, March 18, 2024, to deliberate on the importance and…
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Reflections on Nigeria’s Learning Crisis and Adopting a Systems Lens to Study and Address It
In this episode, RISE research fellow Julius Atuhurra speaks to CSEA’s Director of Research, Dr. Adedeji Adeniran, about CSEA’s education research journey that has evolved from an initial focus on…
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Press Release: Aligning Nigeria’s Debt Reduction Policies with Gender and Climate Goals
In a groundbreaking report dissemination event titled “Towards Reconciling Economic and Debt Management Policies with Gender and Climate Objectives in Nigeria,” experts and other stakeholders convened in Abuja on Wednesday,…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses and economic activities worldwide through its capacity to mimic or replicate human-like intelligence. With the growing potential of AI, many countries are adopting various…
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The Impact of Fuel Subsidy on the Nigerian Economy
In the maiden edition of ‘The CSEA Podcast’, Dr Adedeji Adeniran, Director of Research at CSEA, speaks on the impact of the Fuel Subsidy Removal on the Nigerian Economy.
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Did you know? African governments spent 16.5% of their revenues servicing external debt in 2021, leading to debt distress. Domestic policy and global support are needed to address the current…
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How Mobile Money can help solve Nigeria’s ongoing Naira scarcity
Nigeria continues to miss its financial inclusion targets. Because of the numerous constraints surrounding the formal banking system, a significant proportion of the Nigerian population remains excluded from the formal…
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The Need for Africa’s Active Role in the Global Digital Governance Environment
Globally, a plethora of rich and stimulating conversations are currently taking place around the emerging institution of digital governance, reinforcing the fact that digital governance is inextricably linked to development.…
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Nigeria to build more capacity for technology developers
The history of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the public service agency tasked with the sole responsibility of implementing the policies and guidelines that drive ICT in Nigeria,…
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Africa needs Innovation to be a leader in the Global Digital Market
The recent emergence of Mauritius (an island country in the Indian Ocean, which is located off the eastern coast of Africa) as the most digitally prepared of all African countries…
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Nigeria’s plans for the biggest data governance drive in Africa
The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), the newest Nigerian government digital agency, was birthed on February 4, 2022, following President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of its establishment. Stating its statutory functions,…
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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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New tools for understanding learning crisis in Nigeria Workshop
The Centre for the Study of Economies of Africa (CSEA) in collaboration with Research on Improving Systems in Education (RISE) and Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, organized a…
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DID YOU KNOW? 1 in 5 out-of-school children globally is in Nigeria? Poverty, cultural practices and limited supply, including targeted kidnappings and Insurgency in recent times, have aggravated the education…
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An Interview with Dr. Adedeji Adeniran on Data Governance in Africa
The conversation around Data Governance continues. Dr Adedeji Adeniran, Director of Research at CSEA, shares his thoughts on maximising the potentials and limiting the risks of data governance.
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An Interview with On Think Tanks and Dr Chukwuka Onyekwena
In this interview, Dr Chukwuka talks about the policy space in Nigeria and the context in which think tanks operate, how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted the demand for research…
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