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Part II: The Doorway Is Visibility September 03, (THEWILL) — One of Africa's greatest economic paradoxes is that millions of people are working every day, yet much of their work remains invisible. Across the continent, entrepreneurs are building businesses, serving customers, employing...

President Bola Tinubu devoted a substantial part of his latest statement, released on X, attacking the economic position of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, yet declined, rather theatrically, to mention him by name, claiming that he would not “dignify” opposition leaders.

September 01, (THEWILL) — Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port...

The SBM Intelligence Report on Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis read like a threat to living in Africa’s most populous country. It looks like a terrifying update on a similar report by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics in 2024.

The Architecture of African Growth explores the systems that transform potential into prosperity. Each essay examines one building block, from trust and formalisation to capital, energy, and institutions, and argues that Africa’s future will not be determined by what it has. It will be determined by how well it connects what it has.

Last week, Citizens of Igbokofi in Yewa North Local Government Area in Ogun State celebrated to no end during the official opening of a two-room health care centre in their community after many had lost their lives for seemingly endless years because they could neither afford hospital bills in medical facilities in neighbouring Benin Republic nor summon the courage to cover the distance on time to seek medication for life-threatening ailments.

The deliberate efforts by the major parties in the Osun governorship election to seek peace after the polls are commendable. The move directly contrasts with the post-election atmosphere of violence and inflammatory rhetoric used by politicians during the election.

Nigeria’s top policymakers, financial regulators, banking executives, fintech innovators, economists and capital market operators will gather in Lagos on September 19 and 20, 2026, for the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria’s (FICAN) 36th Anniversary Annual Conference.

Nigeria’s equities market recorded a 57 per cent return in the first seven months of 2026, but the rally was driven predominantly by domestic capital rather than a resurgence in foreign portfolio investment, Managing Director of Coronation Asset Management, Aigbovbioise Aig-Imoukhuede, has said.

There is an intriguing idea in investing known as the margin of safety. The principle is most closely associated with Benjamin Graham, the legendary investor and teacher of Warren Buffett. At its simplest, it means leaving enough room in a decision for the possibility that your assumptions may be wrong. You do not build a strategy that succeeds only if everything unfolds exactly as expected.