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Learning under siege: The fiscal paradox of Nigeria’s safe schools initiative
Nigeria’s Safe Schools Initiative captures a painful contradiction between fiscal ambition and lived insecurity. Despite a N144.77 billion (2023–2026) federal commitment to secure learning spaces, classrooms remain under siege. In May 2026, gunmen abducte...
Economy
Africa's business recovery falters as more economies contract
...five of eight major economies contract as inflation, external shocks bite...
Editor | Jun 09, 2026
Economy
Nigeria Policy Watch: How Nigeria lost its industrial edge
This edition of Nigeria Policy Watch deep dives into one of the most important unanswered questions in Nigeria's economic history: how did a country whose manufacturing sector once accounted for more than one-fifth of GDP end up with factories contributin...
Editor | Jun 08, 2026
Economy
Cash is no longer king: The economics behind CBN’s N2.83 trillion target
The central bank’s new target to draw roughly N2.83 trillion from private cash holdings into the formal financial system is not merely a payments story. It is a monetary-policy story, an election-finance story, a banking-liquidity story and, ultimately, a...
Editor | Jun 08, 2026
Economy
The economics and commercial side of kidnapping in Nigeria
A concise economic note on how kidnapping has become a shadow market, why it persists, and what commercial institutions must price into risk....
Editor | Jun 08, 2026
Companies
Succession is the most consequential financial decision a founder will make
The Nigerian founders who have built the most have, in most cases, made no formal decision about what happens to what they built....
Editor | Jun 04, 2026
Economy
Tax always follows the cash
The man who harvests palm fruit must expect stained hands....
Editor | Jun 04, 2026
Economy
How data transforms inclusive finance and closes Nigeria’s $6.75 billion gap
Nigeria stands at a historic economic crossroads. As the nation targets an ambitious $8 billion in gender-lens capital by 2030 to foster shared prosperity, it faces a stark reality: a massive $6.75 billion financing gap....
Editor | Jun 04, 2026
Economy
Why one job no longer sustains a Nigerian home
At 4:30 a.m., while much of Lagos is still asleep, Taye Bamgbade is already working. ...
Editor | Jun 02, 2026
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