In a Fitzrovia boardroom and across five African capitals, one man has spent thirty years learning that governance is never abstract; it is the difference between a community that thrives and one left waiting.
Bukola Ifemade, the actuarial scientist turned systemic reformer, is building the insurance infrastructure that could make Nigeria's economy unbreakable. One policy, one family, one community at a time.
The January 2026 update of the Global Financial Safety Net Tracker, a co-production of Boston University's Global Development Policy Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, UNCTAD, and Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, is the most detailed map ever produced of the world's crisis finance resources.
Global finance has found a new metric, avoided emissions, to price the value of decarbonization technologies as real options rather than sunk costs.
Folake Soetan began her career answering phones for an airline. Twenty-six years later, she leads one of Africa's boldest experiments in integrated energy leadership, bridging oilfields and power grids under one vision.
The global private equity market is not waiting for Africa to prepare. KPMG’s data shows capital moving toward energy, infrastructure and AI-enabling systems, even in a selective deal environment.
On July’s first morning, as Lagos stirs to life, Mrs Ogochukwu Onyelucheya steps into one of Nigeria’s most demanding jobs: Acting CEO of Ikeja Electric, the country’s largest electricity distributor by customer base.
The 2026 WEF Global Risks Perception Survey downgraded environmental risks, not because the science shifted, but because geopolitical and economic turbulence drowned out the slower drumbeat of ecological collapse. Africa should be alarmed.
Otome Oyo spent three decades helping the world's biggest brands find their voice in Africa. Then he turned that same skill inward, toward the continent itself, its institutions, and the people inside them.
Dr Kola Adesina, Executive Director of Sahara Group and Group Managing Director of Sahara Power Group, is the man who redefined what it means to bring energy to life in Africa, one structural reform at a time.
A new wave of jobs is emerging across Africa’s green and digital economy. Employers are seeking skills in renewable energy, data, communications, ESG, finance and operations.
Nigeria's Energy Transition Plan charts an ambitious $410 billion roadmap to net-zero by 2060, targeting energy poverty affecting 92 million citizens alongside the climate crisis. The plan is well-designed and internationally acknowledged.
In a Fitzrovia boardroom and across five African capitals, one man has spent thirty years learning that governance is never abstract; it is the difference between a community that thrives and one left waiting.
Bukola Ifemade, the actuarial scientist turned systemic reformer, is building the insurance infrastructure that could make Nigeria's economy unbreakable. One policy, one family, one community at a time.
The January 2026 update of the Global Financial Safety Net Tracker, a co-production of Boston University's Global Development Policy Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, UNCTAD, and Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, is the most detailed map ever produced of the world's crisis finance resources.
Global finance has found a new metric, avoided emissions, to price the value of decarbonization technologies as real options rather than sunk costs.
Folake Soetan began her career answering phones for an airline. Twenty-six years later, she leads one of Africa's boldest experiments in integrated energy leadership, bridging oilfields and power grids under one vision.
The global private equity market is not waiting for Africa to prepare. KPMG’s data shows capital moving toward energy, infrastructure and AI-enabling systems, even in a selective deal environment.
On July’s first morning, as Lagos stirs to life, Mrs Ogochukwu Onyelucheya steps into one of Nigeria’s most demanding jobs: Acting CEO of Ikeja Electric, the country’s largest electricity distributor by customer base.
The 2026 WEF Global Risks Perception Survey downgraded environmental risks, not because the science shifted, but because geopolitical and economic turbulence drowned out the slower drumbeat of ecological collapse. Africa should be alarmed.
Otome Oyo spent three decades helping the world's biggest brands find their voice in Africa. Then he turned that same skill inward, toward the continent itself, its institutions, and the people inside them.
Dr Kola Adesina, Executive Director of Sahara Group and Group Managing Director of Sahara Power Group, is the man who redefined what it means to bring energy to life in Africa, one structural reform at a time.
A new wave of jobs is emerging across Africa’s green and digital economy. Employers are seeking skills in renewable energy, data, communications, ESG, finance and operations.
Nigeria's Energy Transition Plan charts an ambitious $410 billion roadmap to net-zero by 2060, targeting energy poverty affecting 92 million citizens alongside the climate crisis. The plan is well-designed and internationally acknowledged.
Cold chain systems are not simply a technical fix. They are a lifeline for food security, public health, and climate resilience.
ESG is more than compliance. It’s a lens for evaluating progress, risk, opportunity and most critically, legitimacy. We created SSAL with a clear conviction: Africa’s sustainable future must be told by Africans - authentically, accurately, and ambitiously.
Africa’s energy transition is often framed as a financing challenge. While capital remains essential, it cannot compensate for weak governance, poor stakeholder engagement or businesses that fail to earn public trust. ESG is no longer a corporate buzzword; it is becoming a strategic advantage for African energy companies seeking to attract investment and deliver sustainable growth.
Africa’s climate and development story is still too often framed elsewhere, through crisis, compliance and risk, while African evidence, innovators and communities remain supporting characters.
Global business has not retreated from sustainability: 92% of leaders expect competitive advantage, while 89% maintained or increased climate-related investment.
South Sudan is urbanising faster than almost any country on Earth, yet its cities remain underfunded, flood-prone and institutionally hollow.
ESG ratings promise clarity for investors but often deliver confusion for companies, which spend enormous resources chasing scores that shift with each provider's methodology.
In 2026, the World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index recorded its first decline in transition readiness in over a decade, signalling that the enabling conditions driving global clean energy progress are weakening.
