Three years after President Bola Tinubu stood at Eagle Square on his inauguration day and declared, in five words that would reshape Nigerian economic life, that "the subsidy is gone," the serpentine queues that once strangled filling stations from Africa’s biggest oil-producing country have become something close to a distant memory. Walk into any filling station in Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt today, and Nigerians will find petrol. The removal of Nigeria's petrol subsidy in May 2023 unlocked what the federal government estimated at rou
Three years after President Bola Tinubu stood at Eagle Square on his inauguration day and declared, in five words that would reshape Nigerian economic life, that "the subsidy is gone," the serpentine queues that once strangled filling stations from Africa’s biggest oil-producing country have become something close to a distant memory. Walk into any filling station in Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt today, and Nigerians will find petrol. The removal of Nigeria's petrol subsidy in May 2023 unlocked what the federal government estimated at rou