Author: Open Space

My name is Pascal. I’m a 22-year-old content creator. On the internet, I appear to have my life together. If you check my page on any random Tuesday afternoon, you’ll see me in a well-ironed blazer, sitting in a fancy restaurant, holding an iced coffee. The caption will say something motivational like “Soft life is […]

There is something you begin to notice when you study companies that survive multiple economic cycles. They do not just focus on profit. They focus on resilience. And resilience rarely happens by accident. Risk experts like Professor Georges Dionne have long argued that structured risk management is what allows institutions to preserve capital and maintain […]

If you ask most business owners what slows their growth, the answers are usually predictable: capital constraints, exchange rate pressures, infrastructure gaps, or demand volatility. But in many cases, the real constraint is much more practical. It is the inability to access the equipment, vehicles, and productive assets required to scale without putting dangerous pressure […]

Meetings like that one always start the same way. You see everyone walking in confidently, laptops open, voices chattering seriously, as if they’re planning the country’s budget. People greet each other with that professional warmth that lasts exactly fifteen seconds before the real business begins. That morning was no different. Thirty minutes in, the politeness […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s 2025 Fintech Report, Shaping the Future of Fintech in Nigeria: Innovation, Inclusion, and Integrity, offers a clear signal on where Nigeria’s digital finance ecosystem is headed and what will separate enduring platforms from short-lived innovation. Nigeria has evolved from a fast-growing fintech market into a systemically important digital economy with […]

History is never shaped by incremental comfort. It is shaped by bold conviction. When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in 1954, experts had insisted the human body could not endure it. Within months, others followed. This shows that the barrier was never only physical; it was psychological. And once that belief shifted, performance accelerated. […]

The first thing I noticed was the ceiling.   It was too high for a bedroom ceiling and too decorated for a hospital ceiling. It stretched upward like the inside of a mall, but the light hanging from it was the one from my childhood home at Iyana Apaja, the slightly crooked one my father […]

For three weeks, I was convinced someone was stealing from me. I didn’t want to speak to anyone about it, so I don’t sound paranoid, but I was watching my account like a hawk. Every morning, I’d open my banking app with suspicion. I refreshed and scrutinised my transaction history EVERY OPPORTUNITY I GOT. Because […]