The economic cost of Africa’s disappearing forests
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is losing forests faster than almost any other region in the world, and the economic fallout is...
- Wednesday, June 03, 2026
BusinessDay
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is losing forests faster than almost any other region in the world, and the economic fallout is...
Nigeria has never lacked reform blueprints. From the mid-2000s banking consolidation to fuel subsidy removals, privatisation, and exchange-rate adjustments, policymakers...
Economic orthodoxy insists that stable, low inflation is the bedrock of long-term growth. For Nigeria, however, the historical record tells...
Sixty-five years after independence, Nigeria is still searching for the prosperity that freedom was meant to deliver. In 1960, oil...
The standoff between Dangote and Nigeria’s oil union, PENGASSAN, could jeopardise recent gains from painful reforms that are yet to...
“Yet it cautions that unless reforms yield visible improvements in everyday life, the government risks losing public trust.” For policymakers...
For decades, every Nigerian administration has promised to “diversify the economy.” Yet crude oil, which accounts for less than 10...
When Nigeria floated the naira in June 2023, scrapping multiple exchange rate windows, it marked one of the boldest policy...
For nearly a decade, Nigerians have lived with inflation as a permanent affliction. Prices rarely stood still, rising faster than...
For half a century, Nigeria’s most enduring social contract was not enshrined in a constitution but at the petrol pump....