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Lagos is a city on the move and this is reflected in the life of its residents. Oftentimes it seems every Lagosian is on the road at the same time heading to a destination unknown. To catch up with the fast-paced lifestyle, commercial motorcycles are a popular transport medium. Commuters hire them to beat the city's infamous traffic.
Now, for security reasons, the Lagos State Government has put a ban on commercial motorcycle operations, and as a counterreaction, people protested the ban. But this is not the first time Lagos state is restricting commercial motorcycles. One may ask why these bans never last?
We explored some of these reasons in this issue of VA Weekly, highlighting the staggering economic costs of the ban in the state.
Adekunle Agbetiloye
Staff Writer, Ventures Africa.
What's new?
The ban on commercial motorcycles (Okada) in Lagos won't last. Here's why?
Recently, the Lagos state government announced that commercial motorcyclists must stop operations in six Local Government Areas of the state. But this is not the first time Lagos state is restricting commercial motorcycles. Since Bola Tinubu banned them in 2006, the state has returned several times to make the same decision. The question is, why do these bans never stick? Read more.
Should Africa be worried about a global recession?
Why will what happens in the United States or Ukraine affect economies millions of miles away from them? The answer is hyper-globalization, a term used to describe how much economies today increasingly depend on each other. We have become so interconnected through international trade and, in some cases, external borrowings. Read more.
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Temitope’s early dream was to work in the health sector. So he spent five years studying Health Information and Clinical Coding at the School of Health Information Management, OAU Teaching Hospital. Temitope’s pursuit of growth and new challenges made him work at more hospitals. But Temitope started getting bored. He had gone through the ups and downs of managing and handling health information for six years. Read more.
Why impact investors should bet on agriculture.
The shock to the global food system sparked by the war in Ukraine is hitting sub-Saharan Africa especially hard. That’s because the region’s imports of commodities like wheat, maize and rice and finished food products have soared over the last few decades, reaching some $35 billion by 2020. But this weakness can be transformed into a source of strength. Read more.
Africa forward: Social entrepreneurs' collaborative actions will shape our continent's future.
Africa is rapidly expanding and evolving as socio-economic, political, technological and cultural changes sweep the continent. There is an emerging, urgent need for effective, local entrepreneurial innovations to explore ways to alleviate a myriad of systemic problems – unemployment, endemic poverty, sluggish economic growth and a lack of enterprise support mechanisms in many countries. Read more.
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