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  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    Nigeria’s Senate confirms new central bank governor amid currency rout

    Former Citi executive Olayemi Cardoso faces task of stabilising naira and settling $6.8bn foreign exchange obligations

    Naira banknotes
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    Nigerian rapper’s death exposes murky side of Afrobeats music

    Rising star’s sudden demise after raising maltreatment accusations puts genre in the spotlight

    People hold candle lights and a flare during a minute of silence at a protest inside a park in Lagos, Nigeria to demand justice for Afrobeat star MohBad following his mysterious death
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    LexRetail & Consumer industry
    PZ Cussons/Nigeria: delisting local unit suggests little faith in recovery

    High inflation and volatile naira among headwinds for consumer goods group

    Employees work at computer terminals on the trading floor at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    UK authorities charge former Nigeria oil minister with bribery

    Diezani Alison-Madueke accused of taking kickbacks for awarding multimillion-dollar oil and gas contracts

    Former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke speaks at an event
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Nigeria’s president appoints new cabinet

    Bola Tinubu seeks to rejuvenate economy and respond to crisis in neighbouring Niger

    Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Godwin Emefiele
    Court date completes suspended Nigerian bank chief’s fall from grace

    Godwin Emefiele’s nine years in charge came to an abrupt end when new president Bola Tinubu took office

    Godwin Emefiele
  • 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
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