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Nigeria’s reform moment: Building strong institutions that deliver results

Nigeria’s reform moment: Building strong institutions that deliver results

By OLAKUNLE ELATUYI Economic reforms may impress on paper, but citizens judge them at the market, in the workplace, and through public services. For the Tinubu administration, the test of subsidy removal, foreign exchange reforms, tax changes, and fiscal adjustments is whether they make life more affordable, create jobs, and improve services amid insecurity and cost-of-living […]
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Nigeria yet to Practise Omoluabi social democracy — Prince Faloye

Nigeria yet to Practise Omoluabi social democracy — Prince Faloye

By Chris Onuoha President of the African Sociocultural Harmony and Enlightenment Foundation (ASHE), Prince Justice Faloye, has expressed dissatisfaction with the current APC administration, describing its neoliberal leadership style as un-African. Faloye, who is the national publicity secretary of Afenifere, stated this in a press release, saying Nigeria is at the bottom of the global […]

N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem

N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem

By MAHMUD JAFAR The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once […]

Tompolo, Otuaro and Borders

Tompolo, Otuaro and Borders

By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou Borders are the plagues of any society; borders are also the joys of any society. Border management strategies intentionally mapped out do produce results that become either destabilising or beneficial when viewed through the lens of man’s struggle for self-actualisation and social belonging in a society where identity-building is all. However society […]

Millions still rely on emergency airtime as inflation squeezes household budgets

Millions still rely on emergency airtime as inflation squeezes household budgets

By Tricia Eneh As rising food prices, transport fares and other living costs continue to strain household budgets, millions of Nigerians are relying on emergency airtime services to stay connected, reinforcing the growing importance of digital connectivity for work, business, banking and everyday communication. The service, widely used by prepaid mobile subscribers, allows eligible customers […]