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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...
Politics
APC primaries, Option A4, Orire abduction and need for national mourning
A lot is happening on Nigeria's political turf. The government appears to have received some numbing inoculations that have deadened its feelings....
Editor | May 21, 2026
Economy
Why the trillion naira generated yearly doesn't translate into national strength
Nigeria is not struggling to generate revenue....
Editor | May 21, 2026
Economy
A Nation Ahead of Its State: Nigeria and the crisis of capacity
Nigeria is one of the strangest political creations of the twenty-first century: a country whose society often appears decades ahead of its state....
Editor | May 21, 2026
Economy
Nigeria’s S&P upgrade: A vote of confidence, not yet a dividend
Nigeria’s sovereign credit story has taken a significant turn. On May 15, 2026, S&P Global Ratings raised the country’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings to B from B- and assigned a stable outlook....
Editor | May 21, 2026
Energy
Dangote’s Kenya refinery gambit
Dangote’s reported decision to keep a proposed $15 billion to $17 billion East African refinery alive, while insisting on firm anti-dumping safeguards, should not be read as ordinary corporate brinkmanship. It is a sophisticated negotiation between capita...
Editor | May 21, 2026
Companies
When profit is not enough: The Access Holdings dividend shock and the new era of banking discipline
Access Holdings Plc has delivered what would ordinarily be celebrated as one of the most impressive earnings performances in Nigerian banking history...
Editor | May 21, 2026
Politics
Why economy must define 2027 presidential race
As Nigeria edges closer to the 2027 general elections, the political atmosphere is already thickening. Aspirants are multiplying across party lines, from the APC and ADC to the NDC, APM, and a host of emerging platforms, each signalling ambition, each hin...
Editor | May 21, 2026
Economy
Disinflation reversal may renew pressure on Nigerian households
Nigeria’s inflation story in 2026 is beginning to look less like a recovery and more like a fragile pause....
Editor | May 21, 2026
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