Nigeria is approaching a dangerous precipice. The insecurity that now defines daily life across vast stretches of our country is not merely a law‑and‑order problem; it is evidence of a Nation-state wh...
Every nation eventually reaches a point where silence stops being prudence and becomes complicity. There are moments when patience can no longer disguise decay, when restraint begins to look like indi...
Something is quietly reshaping the architecture of Nigeria’s tech boom: the country’s most celebrated startups, the ones splashed across funding announcements, celebrated at Lagos tech summits, and he...
The fundamental promise of education in Nigeria is fading. Nigerian schools, once regarded as havens of education and catalysts for social advancement, are now dangerous places where children are hunt...
In Crude Oil: Power, Turnaround and Transformation in Angola, NJ Ayuk shifts attention from presidents and policy to the entrepreneurs, engineers and service companies turning reform into industrial c...
NJ Ayuk’s Crude Oil shows why African petroleum reform must create companies, skills and capacity – not only contracts. One of the most important Nigeria-relevant ideas in NJ Ayuk’s Crude Oil: Power, ...
Salary increases in Nigeria have been outpaced by rising prices, and for many workers, the pay increases have looked good on paper but have quickly disappeared in real life. Inflation continues to out...
The largest oil producer in Africa keeps creating sovereign wealth funds and starving them. The outcome is a fiscal architecture that appears sophisticated on paper but collapses under the strain of p...
To the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Vice President, the Governors of the 36 States, the Federal Executive Council, the Members of the National Assembly, the State Houses of Assemb...
In July 2019, the Nigerian government announced a landmark electricity deal with German industrial giant Siemens. It was the aftermath of an Abuja meeting between former President Muhammadu Buhari an...