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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration can point to a substantial list of economic, infrastructure and social-policy initiatives since May 2023. Fuel-subsidy removal, foreign-exchange reform, tax changes, higher revenues, infrastructure spending, student loans, a new minimum wage and expanded social intervention programmes have fundamentally altered the policy direction of the Nigerian economy. But another, difficult question…

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to cut its benchmark interest rate by 350 basis points (from 26.5 per cent to 23 per cent) marks a significant shift in the country’s monetary policy direction. Announced after the 307th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on September 22, 2026, the decision represents the largest single…

A house can now exist on a computer screen before the first block is laid. Its rooms can be designed digitally, its structure viewed in three dimensions, its construction monitored by drones and, after completion, its lights, cameras and security systems controlled from a smartphone. For generations, building a house depended largely on manual measurements,…