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Patients in some Lagos public hospitals are waiting hours for care as doctors resign and workloads rise. We examine the workforce gap, financing pressures and reforms needed beyond sim…
Nigeria wants 112 to become a universal toll-free emergency number. This explainer examines the emergency communication centres, dispatch chain, state coordination and service standard…
ECOWAS says the ECO single currency can still launch in 2027. We examine the convergence rules, Nigeria's position, the benefits of monetary integration and the risks of sharing one cu…
A new global comparison ranks Nigeria last for baby-formula affordability relative to average wages. We examine the methodology, the wider cost of baby essentials and what the result s…
Koleoso's reported 141.6 million combined views show how large direct-to-audience Nollywood can become on YouTube. The deeper story is about distribution, foreign-currency revenue, own…
Nigeria still burns valuable associated gas while factories spend heavily on alternative electricity. This explainer examines why flaring persists, what the gas-commercialisation progr…
FirstBank says it spends more than N6 billion annually on cybersecurity. Nigeria's wider fraud data show why banks, fintechs, regulators and customers now have to treat digital trust a…
The CBN has cut its policy rate by 350 basis points to 23 per cent. Businesses want cheaper credit, but Nigeria must now test whether lower rates can reach the real economy without rev…
Olojo Festival shows that Nigeria has powerful cultural assets. The bigger opportunity is to turn festivals and heritage sites into year-round visitor economies built on transport, hos…
AI is already entering Nigerian schools. The real challenge is defining what students should learn: not one fashionable tool, but durable skills in verification, ethics, privacy, creat…
Nigeria wants one million export-linked jobs and 10 million globally certified workers by 2030. Turning that ambition into an industry will require more than training: global standards…
Nigeria has commercially launched a $300 million distributed renewable-energy fund. Here is how the financing model could expand mini-grids, solar systems and productive electricity fo…
Dozens of delegates walked out as Benjamin Netanyahu began his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. He responded by calling those leaving “moral cowards” be…
Nigeria’s education debate often produces long lists of problems. This FridayPosts 50 reframes the conversation around 50 measurable interventions spanning early childhood, foundationa…
Olu Jacobs’ five-decade career stretched from British theatre and television to Nigerian film, training and institution-building. His death invites a larger question: what did his gene…
What should Nigeria sell more of across Africa beyond crude oil and refined fuels? This FridayPosts ranking uses production capability, regional demand, value-addition potential, logis…
Nigeria’s universities contain thousands of young athletes, but campus sport is rarely organised as a complete talent-development system. What would it take to connect university compe…
Nigeria’s football governance debate has drawn FIFA and CAF attention. Instead of focusing only on personalities, this explainer sets out the institutional functions a modern football…