When you walk into the market today, you don’t need a World Bank report to know something is fundamentally wrong. Salaries are flat, rents are rising, food is almost a luxury, and yes, the price of a bag of cement feels like punishment.
So when a recent piece described what is happening as “broad-day robbery” and “corporate greed”, I understood the mood. Many Nigerians genuinely feel betrayed – not just by the government, but by companies whose profits seem to be rising even as people are tightening their belts.
But as someone who has sat
