- Saturday, June 20, 2026
BusinessDay
Every year, Nigeria performs the same national ritual. A budget is presented with optimism. Targets are defended passionately. Revenue assumptions...
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that settles into the bones of a small business owner in Lagos or...
There is an uncomfortable truth Nigerians have come to recognise, even if many are reluctant to say it, that in...
There is a particular genre of financial commentary that mistakes legal process for a factual verdict. A court delivers a...
The story of inflation in Nigeria is not written in central bank communiqués or quarterly GDP reports. It is written...
Volatility is no longer an episodic challenge for corporate treasurers—it is the operating environment. Over the past few years, the...
There is a conversation happening in boardrooms across Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, and Johannesburg. It goes something like this: FinTech is...
There is a specific kind of euphoria that comes with a bank alert in Nigeria. It is that high-pitched “ping”...
Nigeria has enough installed generation to power a mid-sized country. Yet most of it never reaches the grid. The...
Earlier this month at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, one short conversation crystallised something I believe many African organisations...
Before the emergence of germ theory in the nineteenth century, medicine was dominated by tradition, authority, intuition, and folklore. Physicians...
A child cannot be blamed for a soup cooked by the entire household. That African proverb captures a...
Lord Palmerston, a 19th-century British Prime Minister, famously coined the saying: “There are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent...
There is a particular kind of confidence that comes with success. For financial institutions that have delivered transformative results in...
Nigeria’s financial inclusion story is often told as one of steady progress. More people have bank accounts, digital payments are...
