David examines AI-powered grief apps, discussing their potential benefits, ethical concerns, and privacy risks. He contrasts Western use of these apps with traditional African mourning practices and highlights expert opinions on the limits of AI in offering emotional support. Musa covers Nigeria's 2004 banking recapitalization reforms, focusing on capital growth, bank consolidation, and their effects on the stock market, while predicting similar outcomes for the 2026 recapitalization program.

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On today's episode, Musa explores the 2025 economic outlook: slowing global growth, resilient US and South Asia, and challenges for Europe and China. Inflation eases to 4.3%, but service costs stay high. Trade shifts to services, bringing disruptions but new opportunities in digital and fintech.

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two main topics: the resignation of Bento Africa's CEO, and the problematic nature of African Eurobonds. Ebon stepped down and relinquished his equity after accusations of withholding employee taxes and pensions, a service Bento was contracted to handle for companies like Foilmetrics. This follows a previous resignation and reinstatement of Ebo in 2022 due to allegations of fostering a toxic work environment. He's now launching a new AI venture, Ada AI. The podcast then pivots to a discussion of African Eurobonds, arguing that while oversubscription appears positive, it highlights a lack of negotiating power, leading to high interest rates compared to other developing regions. This unsustainable borrowing, often used for recurring expenses rather than long-term development, risks saddling future generations with debt and exposes African nations to currency risks. The podcast concludes by urging governments to negotiate lower rates, issue longer-term bonds, develop local capital markets, and improve financial management to ensure borrowed funds contribute to sustainable economic growth.

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On today’s Evening Dew, Musa talks about Nigeria’s $15 billion investment push to fix its power sector. With just 13,000 MW for a large population, unreliable electricity remains a challenge. The plan aims to boost renewables, expand grid connections, and introduce cost-reflective tariffs by 2027 while balancing subsidies for vulnerable households.

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In today’s episode of The Evening View, David discusses the market frenzy surrounding Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, which led to a US stock sell-off and impacted Nvidia’s stock due to false rumors, highlighting the dangers of hype and misinformation. Meanwhile, Musa breaks down the 2024 private capital report in Africa, revealing a 51% rise in disclosed transactions to $10.1 billion, with West, East, and Southern Africa attracting the most investments. Key sectors include financial services, consumer goods, technology, and industrials, with equity financing dominating, signaling strong investor confidence in African businesses.

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In today’s episode, Musa highlights Nigeria's Payment System Vision 2025, a five-year plan to modernize payments with upgraded infrastructure, blockchain, CBDC, agent banking, and open banking. The initiative prioritizes security, fraud prevention, and consumer protection, aiming for a safer, more inclusive financial system to boost trust and economic growth.

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On today's episode of the Evening Dew, Musa on the business sector gives a rundown of the plans of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group to tackle and reduce the problem of inflation in Nigeria, predicting that inflation would reduce in 2025.

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On today's tech news, Moniepoint is making waves in the fintech world being one of the biggest influences in the success of small scale business and now they've secured a partnership/ investment with Visa. And on today's business news the world bank has made a pledge to support Nigeria with a whopping 500 million USD to expand its fiber optic network. 

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On today's episode of the evening dew, it's a win for Nigeria as the nation has moved from 35% to 13% of the least of the most hacked and vulnerable countries in the world in the global threat index. While on the business sector, the central bank of Nigeria has created new Naira solutions for government Ministries departments and agencies.

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In today's tech news, Nigeria is set the build the first ever Ai University in Lagos, Nigeria which will serve as an answer to the growing demand of Ai in the world. While of the business news, we would look at a review by Tayo Dele on what the future of the Nigerian economy .

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