Nigeria and Africa
Perspectives from Anslem Oshionebo on building Nigeria and Africa: fintech, energy, regulation, education and the levers for the next generation of growth.
18 articles
- Raising Capital for African Businesses: What Investors Look For Anslem Oshionebo on how African founders and companies can prepare to raise equity and debt: governance, numbers, story and structure.
- Due Diligence on Nigerian Upstream Acquisitions: Red Flags to Watch Anslem Oshionebo on the technical, legal, financial and operational red flags investors should test before acquiring Nigerian oil and gas assets.
- Technology in the Classroom: Giving African Children the Right Tools Anslem Oshionebo on how technology can improve learning for African children, and the foundations needed for it to work.
- Gas as Nigeria's Transition Fuel: The Investment Case Anslem Oshionebo on why natural gas is central to Nigeria's power, industry and energy transition, and what investors should weigh.
- Strategy in Uncertain Times: Scenario Planning for African Businesses Anslem Oshionebo on using scenario planning to make better strategic decisions amid currency swings, policy shifts and commodity cycles.
- Preparing a Winning Bid for a Nigerian Oil Block Anslem Oshionebo on the technical, financial and legal readiness companies need before bidding for oil and gas blocks in a NUPRC licensing round.
- Making Nigeria Great: Five Levers for the Next Generation Anslem Oshionebo on five practical levers for Nigeria's growth: education, power, institutions, the digital economy and the diaspora.
- The Future of AI: What the Next Decade Means for Work, Business and Africa Anslem Oshionebo on how AI will reshape work and business over the next decade, and why Africa can be a builder rather than only a consumer.
- Inside Nigeria's Oil Licensing Rounds: How the NUPRC Bid Process Works Anslem Oshionebo, MD/CEO of Haricot Energies, explains the stages of a Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission licensing round under the PIA.
- How Oil Prices and Production Shape Nigeria's Economy Anslem Oshionebo explains how oil prices flow through Nigeria's budget, currency, inflation and investment, and how to build resilience.
- Recovering Non-Performing Loans in Nigeria: A Playbook for Lenders Anslem Oshionebo, CEO of Tenaza Asset Recovery & Intelligence, sets out a practical playbook for lenders recovering non-performing loans in Nigeria.
- Credit Scoring with Alternative Data in Africa Anslem Oshionebo on how mobile, transaction and behavioural data can widen access to credit in Africa, and the risks lenders must manage.
- Data Protection for Fintechs: Lessons from Nigeria and the United States Anslem Oshionebo on how fintechs operating in Nigeria and the US can build data protection into products under the NDPA and US privacy rules.
- Financing Nigeria's Upstream Oil and Gas: Why Technical and Financial Diligence Must Meet Anslem Oshionebo, MD/CEO of Haricot Energies, on why upstream oil and gas deals in Nigeria succeed only when engineering and finance are tested together.
- Nigeria's Fintech Regulation: What Founders Need to Know Anslem Oshionebo on the regulators, licences and compliance obligations every fintech founder building in Nigeria should understand.
- Stablecoins and the Future of African Remittances Anslem Oshionebo on whether regulated stablecoins can cut the cost of sending money to Africa, and what still stands in the way.
- Why Sending Money Home Still Costs Too Much, and What Will Change It Anslem Oshionebo on why remittances to Africa remain the world's most expensive, where the cost really comes from, and the technologies bringing it down.
- Africa's Role in Fintech Anslem Oshionebo on how Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt became fintech hubs built on mobile phones and financial inclusion.