Nigeria’s Infrastructure Renaissance and New Funding Plan, by Zekeri Laruba Idakwo ‎ ‎As Nigeria strives to reshape its economic trajectory and close its infrastructure gap, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s newly approved six-year external borrowing plan has laid out an ambitious roadmap, backed by transformative capital projects...

Bosun Tijani and Nigeria’s Digital Awakening By Fatimah Yusuf Usman When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Dr. Bosun Tijani as Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy in 2023, his decision signalled a bold commitment to harnessing technology for national development. A seasoned tech ecosystem builder...

Re: 30% Processing of Export Raw Materials By Hanniel Sebatie Noboh On the morning of July 30, Vanguard newspaper published an editorial titled “30% Processing of Export Raw Materials”, offering its perspective on the recently passed Senate bill mandating that all raw materials exported from Nigeria...

Beyond Rebasing, The Nigerian Economy Has Changed By ‘Tope Fasua Well, the world economy has changed in a remarkable manner. The advent of COVID-19 marked a radical shift to the dominance of the digital economy especially. In that era, the uber-rich grew even indeterminably richer, while...

From Farm to Foreign: Nigeria's Economic Missteps By Shamsudeen Ibrahim When former President Muhammadu Buhari and his late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, championed the mantra "We must eat what we produce," critics dismissed them as out of touch. The administration enforced border controls, restricted food...

At a time we all advocate for a cut in governance costs, what would creating new states mean for the economy?