Nigeria’s 2026 Budget comes at a moment that feels both fragile and decisive. After more than two years of sweeping reforms that upended familiar but deeply flawed systems, President Bola Tinubu is presenting this budget as a turning point — a shift from pain to payoff. Framed as the “Budget of Consolidation, Renewed Resilience and Shared Prosperity,” the speech openly admits what many Nigerians already know: households and businesses have paid a steep price for reform. That honesty matters in a country showing clear signs of reform fatigue.