- Friday, June 12, 2026
BusinessDay
My takeaway from a webinar I participated in in July 2025, as an observer, was that civil servants use state...
Foreign reserves occupy a privileged place in the symbolic language of economic governance. When they rise, governments speak of renewed...
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s Marmite president, is by no means a religious bigot. He is a moderate, even liberal, Muslim,...
Nigeria’s state governments are spending more than ever, but much of that money is failing to translate into usable infrastructure,...
Nigeria is poised to begin 2026 at a crucial moment in the country’s economic journey. According to MasterCard Economics Institute,...
The story varies in detail, depending on the raconteur. But the essentials carry a unanimous thread. One evening recently, in...
I am, and have always been, a curious person. I interrogate everything. My imagination is restless and fertile; it refuses...
Before every major meeting, Clara, a formidable tech executive, would close her office door, stand perfectly still, and take three...
Valentine’s season is not a celebration. It is an economy. And like every economy, it reveals priorities, pressure points, and...
Land reform is a consequential political struggle, often disguised as a mere administrative exercise. But land is memory, status and...
Democracies rarely die in one dramatic moment. More often, they are quietly redesigned—clause by clause—until citizens discover that elections still...
In the grand theatre of African economics, Nigeria and South Africa occupy the leading roles. Each, in its own way,...
Nigeria’s digital education rhetoric is no longer short of examples. Across the states, initiatives abound: Lagos has piloted digital classrooms...
By the end of this year, or even earlier, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nigeria’s ruling party, may control 30...
On April 11, 2019, at the Vatican, a strange drama unfolded, before the eyes of a watching world. A frail...
