Adeoti Malik 
One Regulator or Many? Inside the Bill That Could Rewrite How Nigeria Licenses Its 430 Fintechs Every fintech founder in Nigeria knows the feeling: you build a product that moves money, lends it or invests it, and then discover that three or four agencies each want a say in how it works. A bill moving … Read more
Dropped Calls, Missing Data and ₦20 Credits: MTN’s Five-State Outage Lands in the Middle of a Compensation Fight On Thursday evening, MTN Nigeria’s customers across some of the country’s busiest regions discovered their phones weren’t working properly, and the company’s own explanation, delivered in a short alert, left almost every important question unanswered. MTN posted … Read more
Deepfakes, Hidden Prompts and the 2027 Vote: What NITDA Is Telling Nigerians About AI Risk Nigeria’s technology regulator has spent much of this year delivering the same message in different venues: artificial intelligence is spreading through the economy faster than the safeguards around it, and ordinary users, companies and political actors are going to pay … Read more
Presidency Says NNPC Stations Will Sell Petrol at Landing Cost for 30 Days Nigeria’s Presidency announced on Thursday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has agreed to give up its retail profit margin on petrol for the next 30 days, a move officials say is meant to ease the strain on households from a … Read more
Nigeria Builds a Rulebook for Crypto and Stablecoins: What Fintech Founders and Investors Need to Know Five years ago, Nigeria told its banks to stop serving crypto customers. Today, the same country has a presidential executive order, two regulators running parallel testing programs, a draft stablecoin rulebook and a regulated naira stablecoin already trading on … Read more
What Is the National Digital Postcode in Nigeria? The National Digital Postcode is an 11-character alphanumeric code that identifies one addressable building in Nigeria. The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) launched the National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System in Abuja on October 1, 2026. The Federal Executive Council approved the policy in March 2026. The system is … Read more
NNPC’s Big Reset: Cost Cuts, Refinery Rethink and an IPO on the Horizon If you only skimmed the headlines about Nigeria’s national oil company this week, you might have caught the profit number and moved on. The more interesting story sits underneath it. In the span of a few days, NNPC Limited has laid out … Read more
From Promises to Pipelines: Nigeria’s Upstream and Gas Investment Boom Gets Its Reality Check For fifteen years, Nigeria has described its natural gas as the great unrealized prize of its energy sector. The country sits on 215 trillion cubic feet of it, more than any other nation in Africa, yet output barely budged for a … Read more
Dangote Slams the Door on Fuel Importers: What It Means for Your Next Tank of Petrol The refinery that now supplies roughly seven of every ten litres of petrol sold in Nigeria just told some of the country’s biggest fuel marketers to look elsewhere. The move, confirmed by refinery officials on October 6, has turned … Read more
Nigeria’s Oil by the Numbers Ask five people in Nigeria’s oil industry how much crude the country is producing and you might get five slightly different answers, and most of them can defend their number. That’s not a sign of sloppy bookkeeping so much as a reminder of how many different ways there are to … Read more