Soil Health: Nigeria and IITA Sign a Data-Driven Fertilizer Pact
Nigeria has poured fertiliser onto its fields for decades on a roughly uniform assumption — that more nutrient means more yield, applied much the same way from Sokoto to Enugu. The soil told a different story. Degraded, depleted and wildly variable from one zone to...
Soil Health: Nigeria and IITA Sign a Data-Driven Fertilizer Pact
Nigeria has poured fertiliser onto its fields for decades on a roughly uniform assumption — that more nutrient means more yield, applied much the same way from Sokoto to Enugu. The soil told a different story. Degraded, depleted and wildly variable from one zone to...
Import Relief: CBN Lets Firms Use Expired NAFDAC Licences for Form M
Regulatory transitions have a habit of stranding the very firms that follow the rules. When a licensing regime changes hands or shifts its process, the importer whose NAFDAC permit lapses mid-cycle can find a perfectly legitimate shipment frozen at the documentation...
No Dead Terminals: CBN Mandates Dual Connectivity for Every POS
A point-of-sale terminal that cannot connect is not a slow payment system — it is no payment system at all. For the Nigerian agent whose entire livelihood rests on a working machine, and for the customer standing in front of it, the most common failure has never been...
Cashless Drive: CBN Caps Weekly Withdrawals at N500,000 for Individuals
Nigeria has spent the better part of a decade trying to wean itself off physical cash, and for most of that time the policy fought human habit and lost. The 2023 attempt to force the issue ended in queues and scarcity. The Central Bank of Nigeria's latest move,...
This Month’s Issue
The Discipline Dividend
How Nigeria is trading looseness for rules – and why the operators who read the new hard rails first will own the next West African cycle.
- 01 Diamba Sud: How a Senegalese Gold Field Re-Rates the Region
- 02 Recapitalisation: Nigeria’s Banks Raise ₦4.65tn to Rebuild Their Capital Base
- 03 Policy Rate: Why the CBN Trimmed to 26.5% – and What It Signals
Soil Health: Nigeria and IITA Sign a Data-Driven Fertilizer Pact
Nigeria’s agriculture ministry and IITA signed an MoU for a national soil-health scheme with data-driven fertiliser advice and soil-testing labs to lift yields.
Import Relief: CBN Lets Firms Use Expired NAFDAC Licences for Form M
The CBN granted temporary relief letting Nigerian importers use expired NAFDAC licences for Form M until 28 February 2026, easing import bottlenecks.
No Dead Terminals: CBN Mandates Dual Connectivity for Every POS
The CBN now mandates dual telecoms connectivity on every POS terminal and a 30-minute bank response to fraud complaints, targeting payment downtime.
Economics
Import Relief: CBN Lets Firms Use Expired NAFDAC Licences for Form M
Regulatory transitions have a habit of stranding the very firms that follow the rules. When a licensing regime changes hands or shifts its process, the importer whose NAFDAC permit lapses mid-cycle can find a perfectly legitimate shipment frozen at the documentation...
Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — regional opportunity why it matters for investors
Coastal West Africa is not short of gold in the ground; it is short of the capital and permits that turn a deposit into a mine. For a decade the region's prospects have competed less on geology than on which government could offer a credible, bankable path to...
Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — market impact how the market shifts for investors
Senegal counts gold among its most valuable exports, yet for years the deposits along its eastern belt have generated more foreign invoices than domestic ones. The drill rigs, the process plants, the senior engineering and the bulk of the capital have tended to arrive...
Money
Central Banker Doubts 4.2% Growth as Diamond Sales Collapse
Money - Banking · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 Botswana built one of Africa's steadiest macro records on a single asset, and that same concentration is now the risk. In June 2024 a senior central-bank official warned that the country could fall...
How Governance Impacts Regional Trade Policies
Governance plays a pivotal role in shaping regional trade policies, influencing everything from cross-border commerce to economic integration. In Southern Africa, where regional trade is a key driver of growth, effective governance ensures that trade policies are...
The Role of Digital Transformation in Public Services
Digital transformation is revolutionizing public service delivery worldwide, and Southern Africa is no exception. Governments in the region are leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, transparency, and accessibility in their interactions with citizens. By...
Lifestyle
Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — lived-economy effect why it matters for investors
A gold project is priced in ounces and dollars, but it is lived in something else entirely, in roads, rents, rooms and the daily rhythm of a place that was quiet before the machines arrived. Senegal is about to test that distance again. Fortuna Mining said this week...
Malaria’s Playbook: What Tanzania Learned From China’s 1-3-7 Method
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The usual currency of health aid is goods - drugs, nets, diagnostic kits shipped from a donor to a recipient. The more durable, and rarer, export is a method. In...
COVID-19 in the Sahel: China’s Medical Team Lands in Burkina Faso
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 When COVID-19 reached the Sahel in early 2020, the global instinct was to pull resources inward. Protective equipment became a contested commodity, export bans multiplied...
Import Relief: CBN Lets Firms Use Expired NAFDAC Licences for Form M
The CBN granted temporary relief letting Nigerian importers use expired NAFDAC licences for Form M until 28 February 2026, easing import bottlenecks.
Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — regional opportunity why it matters for investors
Fortuna’s near-$400m Diamba Sud project moving to a permit decision resets the regional benchmark as coastal West Africa competes for gold mining capital.
Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — market impact how the market shifts for investors
Fortuna’s near-$400m Diamba Sud gold project, with permit expected within weeks and 230,000 oz peak output, reshapes supplier and cost calculations in Senegal.
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Chinese industrial zones are cast as engines of Africa’s export ambitions, but the recorded jobs and investment are modest, and the zones matter more as a template than a triumph.
Industrial parks: Value-chain infrastructure, or just serviced land
Industrial parks are sold as value-chain infrastructure, but a fenced plot with power and a road is only real estate until firms cluster and a supply chain forms inside it.
Trade fairs as pipelines: turning expo handshakes into SME orders
A four-day expo can announce billions in deals. The harder question is how many of those handshakes survive contact with shipping schedules, payment terms and a small firm’s first export.
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Diamba Sud gold project in Senegal — leadership lesson the business case for investors
Fortuna’s near-US$400m Diamba Sud gold project nears its Senegal construction permit. What the market, suppliers and operators should read into the leadership
China-Africa Expos: When Headline Deal Values Outrun Signed Contracts
The Changsha expo closed with US$11.4 billion in signed projects and a further US$43 billion merely announced. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Sports Revival Faces Gear Shortages
Schools have restarted sports but are short of equipment pending ministry approval – a small bottleneck that retailers and grant programmes are placed to clear.
Book Review: Pin The Location – Find, Convert & Keep Customers, Anywhere!
Author: Oscar Habeenzu Published: June 2023 Publisher: BehaviourReport.com Pages: 42 The Geography of Digital Customer Acquisition In an era where businesses obsess over the latest marketing automation tools and AI-driven personalization, Oscar Habeenzu's Pin The...
Domestic gold refinery in Mali — leadership lesson how the market shifts for investors
Mali’s new gold refinery could create a trusted domestic bar, but Ironu asks whether customers gain real access and price, or mainly new promises.
Benin’s EBRD investment eligibility — customer demand why it matters across the region
The EBRD’s approval of Benin promises new capital, but customers decide its worth. Whether households gain access or price, weighed as of May 2025.