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Nigeria’s dismal health statistics
Nigeria likes to boast of its status as Africa’s biggest economy, but its health statistics indicate the country is…
Contrasting poverty narratives
Nigeria’s government has continued to deny the obvious – that Nigeria is now the poverty capital of the world with…
The Lekki-Epe Expressway
The Lekki-Epe Expressway, built in the 1980s during the administration of Lateef Jakande and when the axis was just…
Developing Nigeria’s domestic gas market
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has committed to supply 5 billion standard cubic feet (SCf) of…
FDI and economic growth
There is now unanimity among economists that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a key part of private sector…
The debt peonage is finally here
In our editorial of July 25, 2018, we warned of an impending debt peonage if the large scale of borrowings, at…
Progress with the Onitsha 5 coding champions
A presidential reception September 6 tipped the scale in the accolades Nigeria has showered on the brilliant young…
On Ghana’s one district, one factory plan
An ambitious effort to industrialise all parts of Ghana is recording slow but steady progress as the government…
Edo State’s development moves with China
A harvest of agreements has followed the trip of Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki to China as part of the Nigerian…
Lekki: Going the way of Apapa
The Lekki corridor, also known as ‘New Lagos’ is, arguably, the fastest growing settlement in Africa. With its fast…
Positives from the debate of the vice presidents
For the first time in a long while, the Nigerian political space came alive in the first week of September not for…
The curious squeeze on MTN Nigeria
The additional demand for $2bn in back taxes from MTN Nigeria through the Office of the Attorney General of the…