Belated reforms fail to offset Nigeria’s dire economic forecast

The government has opened up gold mining and is focusing on exploiting Nigeria’s vast natural gas reserves

Nigerian economists and businesses have been clamouring for economic reform for years. In the past few months, the government has finally taken action. Even the Lagos business elite that has scorned the president as an old-school socialist hostile to the private sector has begun to give him credit f

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