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‎Why Nigeria’s Banks Still on Shaky Ground with Big Profits, Weak Capital

By Blaise Udunze‎‎Despite the fragile 2024 economy grappling with inflation, currency volatility, and weak growth, Nigeria’s banking industry was widely portrayed as successful...

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‎NNPC’s $1.42bn, N5.57trn Debt Write-Off and Test of Nigeria’s Fiscal Governance‎

By Blaise Udunze‎‎When the Federal Government approved the write-off of about $1.42 billion and N5.57 trillion in legacy debts owed by the Nigerian...

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‎Why 2026 must be the year Nigeria’s economy works for all‎

By Blaise Udunze‎‎As the new economic year begins in Nigeria, statements and policies emanating from government officials’ corridors project cautious optimism. One of...

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‎Tax Reform or Financial Exclusion? The Trouble with Mandatory TINs

By Blaise Udunze‎‎‎It is not only questionable but an aberration that a nation where over 38million Nigerians remain financially excluded, where trust in...

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‎Dear terror sympathizers… let’s burn bridges…

By Bivan Magoni‎‎Let me not lie yeah, I’m tired of pretending, or tiptoeing around people who get offended by the truth. If a...

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Nigeria’s fiscal policy: Taxing, borrowing, but not building

By Blaise Udunze ‎In today’s Nigeria, one uncomfortable truth has become glaring that the fiscal authority collects, but it does not build. It...

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‎The trouble with Nigeria’s healthcare system

‎By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D‎‎The quality of a country’s healthcare system is a mirror image of its leaders’ commitment to citizens’ health.  Countries like...

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Nigeria’s Banking Woes: How One South African Bank Outvalues an Entire Industry

By Blaise Udunze It is a sobering reality that one South African bank, Standard Bank Group, has a market capitalisation of roughly ZAR...

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‎Why Nigeria’s Banks Still on Shaky Ground with Big Profits, Weak Capital

By Blaise Udunze‎‎Despite the fragile 2024 economy grappling with inflation, currency volatility, and weak growth, Nigeria’s banking industry was widely portrayed as successful...

Why 2026 could be your year of extraordinary breakthroughs‎

By Chioma Obinagwam‎‎Year 2026 will mark the end of ordinary living for those willing to embrace divine discipline and fervent pursuit of God.‎‎Confiance...