Eight months ago, I wrote an article about the flaws of the NUBAN account system implementation in Nigeria. Two weeks ago, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released a draft proposal to review NUBAN implementation in line with the recommendations from my article, taking it a bit further.
In a two-day hackathon, FirstBank Nigeria through her Digital Innovation Lab hosted a competition to find intelligent solutions to the challenges of the financial services industry. The hackathon was organised to coincide with their Fintech 2.0 Summit.
Hunting for suitable accommodation in Nigeria can be likened to an extreme sport. In the process, there's the risk of getting scammed, the reality of spending numerous hours on futile attempts, and the annoying dealings with sexist Landlords. The mandatory upfront one or two year rent that comes post-hunting is also worth mentioning.
Several surveys have revealed that a lot of Nigerian developers are self-taught. Even the Computer Science Graduates whom you’ll expect to be code-peddlers can’t program as such. So, the ones that make a career out of programming have to do more, either by learning online or via apprenticeships.
