Within seven years, the 36 states in Nigeria have gotten $71.3 billion to bolster their economies and improve the welfare of their citizens, but poverty has persisted.
The present administration reforms which boosted states’ revenues amid rising cost of living have also sparked protests across
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Wasiu Alli, Ifeoluwa Adebayo and Folake Balogun
Wasiu Alli is a business, economics cum data journalist with strong expertise covering macro trends, capital markets, government policies, corporate earnings and comparative economics analysis. Alli turns raw data into trends that not only tells compelling stories but nudges investors to make valued and informed decisions. He’s an alumnus of Lagos State University and trained at Lagos Business School. He formerly heads the Companies and Markets desk at BusinessDay where he writes and supervises the production of well researched articles on earnings updates, corporate sectoral comparisons, market intelligence as well as interviews with C-suite executives.
