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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...
Technology
AI is fixing year-end reviews
Let's be honest about year-end reviews: they're crucial, but they're often flawed. We sit down, look back, and try to piece together twelve months of decisions. The problem...
Editor | Dec 12, 2025
Economy
Why economies fail when contract enforcement fails: The era of justice denial for the common man
Efficient contract enforcement is critical to the economic growth and sustainability of any nation, because without the enforceability of laws, protection of the rights of the enforsee, ...
Editor | Dec 11, 2025
Economy
Why lawmakers must take a second look at the proposed excise amendment bill
In a period when Nigeria is working hard to stabilise its economy, strengthen investor confidence, and rebuild the manufacturing sector, the rapid progress of the Customs, Excise and Tariff Amendment Bill (CETA) deserves closer attention....
Editor | Dec 11, 2025
Economy
State budgets, big ambitions: Are Nigeria's governors finally getting serious about development?
The season of budget speeches has begun, and Nigeria's governors are outdoing one another in a contest of trillion-naira ambition. Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Oyo and several others have now laid their 2026 spending plans before their Houses of Assembly...
Editor | Dec 11, 2025
Companies
BUA Foods drives Nigeria’s invisible market value boom
BUA Foods Plc has emerged as the single largest source of Nigeria’s corporate intangible value, with nearly 93 percent of its enterprise value tied to non-physical assets, ...
Editor | Dec 09, 2025
Education
The human capital deficit: Confronting the real threat to Nigeria’s growth trajectory
Nigeria’s basic education system is straining under pressures that threaten to compromise the country’s demographic promise. The numbers are unflinching: millions of children excluded from school, ...
Editor | Dec 09, 2025
Banking
Non-performing loans are not accidents: How poor loan monitoring and weak enforcement are strangulating Nigeria’s productive economy
Nigeria's banking sector is bleeding. Despite several attempts by the Federal Government to reduce the rise of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs), part of which was the creation and enactment of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON Act, into law in...
Editor | Dec 05, 2025
Economy
Reimagining informal apprenticeship for national productivity
The popular apprenticeship structure, popularly known as ‘Nwa Boi’ among the Igbos, has been one of Nigeria’s greatest wealth transfer and job creation systems....
Editor | Dec 04, 2025
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