Cutlasses to Drones: How Nigeria’s Restriction on Drone Usage is Delaying the Birth of a Tech-Driven Agro Economy

“Intellectual innovation could only occur in the kind of tolerant societies in which sometimes outrageous ideas proposed by highly eccentric men would not entail a violent response against ‘heresy’ and ‘apostasy.” Joel Morky, American Economic Historian. Introduction In 2015, Tanzanian authorities revealed that between 2009 and 2014, as much as 67,000 elephants were lost to […]

THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA: FROM CUTLASSES TO DRONES

Introduction Agriculture largely contributes to the Nigerian economy accounting for over 25% of the Nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it is also responsible for 30% of the existing employment in the country. However, the country remains behind its counterparts in developed countries as it still relies on crude implements and obsolete technology in the agribusiness, […]