Somewhere in Nigeria, Girls Between the Ages of 7 And 13 are Used as Collateral for Loans aka Money Wives.
A few days ago, Chess-in-slums founder, Tunde Onakoya took to Twitter to announce their next project. It is to focus on teaching chess to women in Becheve, a community in Cross-river state. But these women aren’t just ordinary women but young ones who are referred to as “money wives”. Twitter went agog when he shared […]
Food Inflation: Turning “Yesterday’s Stew Into Today’s Jollof Rice”.
A constant in today’s Nigerian economy is inflation, especially food inflation. Prices of goods keep increasing, leaving everyone frenzied. For seven consecutive years, we’ve witnessed a shocking inflation rate and an increment in the international exchange rate as well. The inflation is a result of poor management of resources, bad leadership and the harsh effect […]