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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
Nigeria’s 2026 budget: Consolidation on trial
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,...
Editor | Dec 24, 2025
Economy
Nigeria’s December economy: Plenty of money, not enough market
Bisi did not set out to become an economist in December. She is a makeup artist in Lekki - good, busy, well-reviewed - and December has always been her best month. But last year, sometime between the third wedding booking of the day and a frantic call fro...
Editor | Dec 24, 2025
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, nightlife innovation and Lagos’ raw, chaotic magneti...
Editor | Dec 23, 2025
Economy
How Nigeria’s broken logistics system is quietly taxing every business
Nigeria’s economy does not only struggle because of inflation or exchange-rate volatility. It also struggles because moving goods from one point to another is unnecessarily hard, expensive, and unreliable....
Editor | Dec 23, 2025
Economy
Where investors are finding liquidity in Nigeria as private equity exits slow
Private equity investors across emerging markets are increasingly turning to secondary transactions as delayed exits, higher interest rates and currency volatility force portfolio rebalancing. ...
Editor | Dec 22, 2025
Security
N17 trillion later, Nigeria's soaring security allocations fail to deliver safety to citizens
Since Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999, security and defense have consistently been prioritized by successive Presidents. Despite substantial investments over the past two decades, the country continues to face widespread insecurity...
Editor | Dec 22, 2025
Energy
The power question: Will settling gas debts finally stabilise Nigeria’s electricity market?
Few issues define Nigeria’s economic story more sharply than electricity. Unreliable power costs Nigeria around $29 billion annually in lost economic activity. ...
Editor | Dec 22, 2025
Markets
Forty stocks that made investors over 100% richer in 2025
No fewer than forty (40) listed stocks on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) made investors over 100 percent richer in 2025....
Editor | Dec 22, 2025
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