Africa is often described as the world’s youngest continent, with about 60 percent of its population under the age of 25 and a large cohort aged 15–35. According to the United Nations’ World Population Prospects, this youthful profile has been cast as a p...

West Africa is deeply embedded in the global food economy. It supplies raw ingredients for some of the world’s most profitable consumer products, yet at home millions struggle to secure a basic diet....

Nigeria’s fiscal landscape between 2020 and 2025 presents a stark and sobering paradox. Public borrowing surged at both federal and subnational levels, yet the corresponding productivity and developmental outcomes remain uneven, inconsistent, and in many ...

What is circulating in homes, WhatsApp groups and street-corner conversations is not just a political message; it is a household balance sheet written in plain language. On one side of the comparison is a May 29, 2023 memory: the naira around ₦460 to the ...

The purpose of this article, a follow-up to last week’s article titled, “Nigeria and the global LNG surge 2026-2030,” is to exhort Nigerian private investors to rise up to the challenge of investing in the Nigerian liquefied national gas (LNG) sector for ...

Nigeria’s trillion-naira stocks are multiplying and tightening their grip on the market. Twenty-five companies out of the 148 listed firms on the Nigerian Exchange Limited now account for N111.11 trillion in value, led by banks, telecoms, and cement giant...

Earlier this year, Nigeria quietly carried out one of the most important economic exercises in over a decade: the rebasing of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). On the surface, it may appear to be a technical statistical update, the kind that excites econo...

On any given day in Nigeria, millions of people click “I agree” without reading the fine print, post location-tagged photos to social media, sign into conferences with their email addresses and transfer funds across blockchain wallets — rarely pausing to ...