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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 coming deluge: Nigeria’s 14,000 high-risk communities and the politics of prevention
Nigeria has been warned, again, and in language too stark to be mistaken for routine bureaucracy....
Editor | May 05, 2026
Politics
Politics as a marketplace, not a mandate – The reality today
In a functioning democracy, politics is supposed to be a mandate — a transfer of trust from citizens to those elected to serve them....
Editor | May 05, 2026
Economy
The Strait of Hormuz Blockade:: Implications for global food security
The Strait of Hormuz is not only strategic to the shipping of 20 percent of more of global oil and gas, 25 percent to 35 percent of global fertilizer shipment also go through this vital shipping chokepoint. ...
Editor | May 04, 2026
Economy
Nigeria’s new debt surge and the question of what it bought
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took office on May 29, 2023, the first public-debt figure published after his assumption of office was ₦87.38 trillion as of June 30, 2023. ...
Editor | May 04, 2026
Economy
Nigeria’s new finance minister and the illusion of the first 100 days
When Bola Tinubu, president of Africa’s most populous country, appointed Taiwo Oyedele as Nigeria’s new Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, the immediate reaction focused on tax....
Editor | Apr 30, 2026
Economy
The whistleblowing policy as a game changer in tackling tax fraud (Part 1)
The passage of Nigeria’s new tax reform law in June 2025 under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was intended to address a long-standing structural weakness: how to expand the tax base without overburdening compliant taxpayers....
Editor | Apr 30, 2026
Economy
How Nigeria’s new retail class is turning local production into market power
On a humid Friday evening in Lekki, a young professional stands in the aisle of a neighbourhood store, scanning labels with unusual care. She picks up a jar of peanut butter. Puts it back. Reaches for another - this one locally made, with a simpler label,...
Editor | Apr 30, 2026
Economy
Nigeria’s new remittance discipline and the hard work of rebuilding trust
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s latest directive to international money transfer operators looks, at first glance, like a narrow operational tweak. It is not....
Editor | Apr 30, 2026
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