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    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depthAfrican politics
      Nigerian threats to Niger junta undone by fierce domestic opposition

      Follow-up to Abuja’s muscular response to last month’s coup has been limited by hostility from across the political spectrum

      Bola Tinubu
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      GSK PLC
      GSK to cease direct business in Nigeria amid economic pressure

      Drugmaker does not specify reason but forex shortage has put pressure on multinationals

    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Niger
      Regional heads threaten Niger coup leaders with military intervention

      Emergency summit comes as protesters surround French embassy in Niamey chanting pro-Russian slogans

      Demonstrators hold a Russian flag during a gathering in support of the putschist soldiers in the Niger’s capital Niamey on Sunday
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      David Pilling
      Nigeria’s recovery might be a better bet than South Africa’s

      The two giants have faced a decade of woe but one has a better chance of turning a corner

      Passengers sit at a bus station beside campaign poster of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in Lagos last month
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Foreign investors in Nigeria look forward to return to orthodoxy

      New president’s message on repatriation of dividends and profits aimed at raising stock market spirits

      Employees work on the trading floor at the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos, Nigeria
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Solar ‘mini-grids’ light Nigeria’s way towards last-mile electricity

      Private capital shows an interest with some surprising deals being completed

      Solar energy and rural development in the Gabu region
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu gets off to dramatic start

      New president defies rock-bottom expectations by scrapping fuel subsidy and promising exchange rate reform

      Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu waves during his inauguration in Abuja
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Early measures focus on alleviating Nigeria’s debt stress

      New administration wants prospects for economic growth on firmer footing

    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Digital pathway aims at guiding Nigerian farmers out of isolation

      Improved business methods expand horizons beyond subsistence level

      A farmer picks up cocoa beans while spreading them to dry on an open ground in Iragbiji village, southwest Nigeria
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      China affords Nigeria ‘super’ target status

      Activities give sense of the importance Chinese companies in several sectors attach to country’s potential

      Website of African fintech company OPay on iPhone
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      In Nigeria the optimism of Lagos start-up scene prevails

      Entrepreneurs show much can be achieved with relatively small investments

      medical technician getting a blood sample from a patient at home
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Nigeria’s oil and gas industry fails to cash in on global energy hunger

      Poor security and infrastructural under-investment blight national prospects

      a worker at an NNPC facility in Edo state
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Boldness welcomed as step towards ‘fiscal sanity’ in Nigeria

      Years in which per capita income has stood still at best mean problems remain deep

      A passenger gives his transport fare to commercial vehicle driver
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Nigeria plays a lead role in rising popularity of African arts

      Expansion of the middle class since transition from military dictatorship identified as crucial factor

      Tiwa Savage performs onstage at Global Citizen Live
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      ‘Entrenched inflation’ drives 4mn Nigerians into poverty, says World Bank

      President Bola Tinubu’s agenda offers opportunity to boost growth and reduce hardship levels, says lender

      People use small boats, known as pirogues, to navigate the waterways of the slum
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      ReviewPhotography
      Lagos makes a haunting, brutal subject in MoMA’s photography show

      Artists with a connection to the city evoke its lost mysteries and tumultuous present

      The ‘New Photography 2023’ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Economic overhaul raises hopes for Nigeria’s new leader

      Bola Tinubu surprises observers with changes to central bank, anti-corruption agency and subsidies

      Bola Tinubu
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      End to Nigeria currency peg causes biggest fall in naira’s history

      Abandonment of years-long policy follows removal of central bank chief Godwin Emefiele

    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Nigeria’s foray into economic orthodoxy cheers investors

      Removal of central bank chief and scrapping of fuel subsidies gives markets ‘everything they hoped for’

      Two men in discussion as one looks at his mobile phone next to other passengers at a bus shelter
    • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
      Nigeria’s new president suspends central bank governor

      Godwin Emefiele’s contentious policies raised doubts over the instituition’s independence

    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Enuma Okoro
      The pleasure and possibility of summer

      A pause in the day to connect with nature can change how a person feels physically, mentally and emotionally

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      David Pilling
      Expectations for Nigeria’s president are so low, all he has to do is beat them

      The election in which Bola Tinubu won power was chaotic and contested — but he has an ace up his sleeve

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Nigeria president’s move to end petrol subsidies sparks chaos

      Rush to stock up fuel causes long queues at service stations and immediate scarcity

      People sell black market fuel on the street in Lagos, Nigeria
    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Economy and insecurity top agenda for Nigeria’s new president

      Bola Tinubu will face an overflowing in-tray following his inauguration on Monday

      Bola Tinubu celebrates with supporters at the party’s campaign headquarters
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
      Nigerian businesses overcome woes to lead FT-Statista ranking

      Fast-growing companies thrive despite high inflation, chronic shortage of dollars and difficulties accessing foreign investment

      Eloho Omame, partner at TLcom
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