At Alaba International Market in Lagos, transactions worth millions of naira are completed daily, without formal contracts, without bank guarantees, and often without written records. Goods move across cities and borders. Credit is extended, disputes are ...

Nigeria’s industrial future cannot continue to depend on factories and businesses generating their own electricity through diesel generators and private power systems. That is the uncomfortable truth at the heart of the country’s electricity crisis. For t...

A quiet transformation is unfolding across Nigeria’s universities. Increasing number of students are no longer waiting until graduation to enter the labour market. From hostels and off-campus apartments, many now work remotely for firms across Europe, Nor...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) recently ordered telecommunications providers to compensate customers for poor quality services covering periods of verified service failures between November 2025 and January 2026....

At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, framed global politics as a defining choice. Echoing the broader posture of Donald Trump’s administration, Rubio described five centuries of Western expansion followed by post-194...

Nigeria is in the intensive care unit of a critical live-or-die uncertainty. Some deny it; many are indifferent; some are trapped in needless debates about the country's origins. But the condition of a patient in intensive care is not improved through emo...

In April 2026, the Nigerian government announced the graduation of 744 “repentant” former terrorists under its deradicalisation and rehabilitation initiative called “Operation Safe Corridor”, declaring them fit to be ‘reintegrated’ into society....

A young graduate navigating Lagos traffic on a delivery bike and another doing the same on the streets of London may appear worlds apart, yet both operate within increasingly similar economic conditions defined by insecure work, platform-mediated income, ...