Beyond subsidy removal: Nigeria’s broken oil covenant
For nearly half a century, Nigeria lived under the spell of fuel subsidies. It was a peculiar kind of covenant:...
- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
For nearly half a century, Nigeria lived under the spell of fuel subsidies. It was a peculiar kind of covenant:...
In a country of over 200 million people and abundant natural resources, the right to healthcare should not be a...
Currently, Nigeria finds itself ensnared in a twin crisis: depressed economic growth and widespread insecurity. Weakening public institutions and widespread...
Nigeria has numerous endemic diseases, with prominent ones including malaria, Lassa fever, yellow fever, cholera, meningococcal disease (meningitis), and several...
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stood before Nigerians in 2023 and vowed to “deploy the entire machinery of state power”...
Across Nigeria’s fertile lands, from Benue’s yam fields to Kano’s tomato farms, smallholder farmers rise at dawn to till the...
As of January 2025, Nigeria has been formally admitted as a ‘partner country’ of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China,...
Ten months after Nigeria launched its much-talked-about cash transfer scheme to cushion the poorest households from the fallout of sweeping...
As Nigeria grapples with an economy under pressure, President Bola Tinubu’s recent vacation comes at a time when the country...
“With interest rates near 30 percent and the CRR immobilising half of bank deposits, recapitalisation is akin to asking banks...