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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
The Detty December Bubble: How Nigeria is pricing itself out of a billion-dollar cultural economy
Detty December was never a government blueprint or a carefully sequenced tourism policy. It was a market accident—an explosion of Nigerian soft power driven by Afrobeats dominance, diaspora homecomings,...
Editor | Jan 01, 2026
Economy
From party to productivity: Can Lagos turn ‘Detty December’ into lasting economic growth?
As 2025 comes to an end, Lagos, like the rest of Nigeria, buzzes with the energy of ‘Detty December; an emerging economy that peaked at ₦54 billion in hotel bookings and 550,000 inbound travelers in 2024, indicating a resilient consumer behaviour....
Editor | Dec 30, 2025
Economy
Nigeria 2026 economic outlook: What governments, businesses and households need to get right
Nigeria enters the run-up to 2026 at a delicate moment. This is not a story of dramatic resurgence, nor one of inevitable decline. It is, instead, a story of balance — of an economy walking a narrow ridge between stabilisation and stagnation....
Editor | Dec 30, 2025
Economy
Nigeria's maritime in 2025: A year of reform, resistance, and a race for relevance
Tariff sprees, digital upgrades, billion-dollar port promises, and Nigeria's return to international maritime diplomacy. 2025 was a year in which Nigeria's seaports were tested and shaped by more policy choices than cargo flow. ...
Editor | Dec 30, 2025
Economy
Cautious investors drag Africa’s private equity market to 5-year low
Africa’s private equity market lost further momentum in 2025, with total deal value falling for a third consecutive year to $6.85 billion in the first nine months—nearing Covid-19-era lows—as investors retreated amid global volatility, tighter financial c...
Editor | Dec 30, 2025
Health
Top three trends that shaped health sector in 2025
The year 2025 was a defining one for Nigeria’s health sector, marked by major challenges and notable policy shifts....
Editor | Dec 30, 2025
Agriculture
Investors seek production subsidy as farmers losses pile
Investors are calling for urgent production subsidies to avert a worsening food-supply crisis in 2026 in the face of mounting farmers’ losses....
Editor | Dec 30, 2025
Religion
Prophecy, prediction and public trust: A statistical audit of Nigeria's prophetic culture
In Nigeria, few social rituals are as predictable as the wave of prophecies that accompanies each new year. From declarations about elections and economic fortunes to warnings of disasters, deaths and breakthroughs, prophetic pronouncements occupy a power...
Editor | Dec 29, 2025
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