Nigeria’s economic reckoning: The long road from collapse to recovery

    Dr. Oluyemi Adeosun | Editor’s picks | Jul 21, 2025    
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In the corridors of power and on the streets of Lagos, there is a familiar refrain: "It didn't start with Tinubu." This is undeniably true. Nigeria's economic crisis is not the sudden onset of a new illness but the painful culmination of decades of untreated ailments. The nation, Africa's largest economy by nominal GDP, finds itself in a profound reckoning, grappling with the consequences of successive administrations that, for various reasons, shied away from or botched the necessary, often painful, reforms.

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