The most repressed country remains a silenced nation where expressing dissent often leads to persecution, torture, or disappearance, and citizens are left disconnected from the world through heavy internet censorship.
Apart from the fact that for the past decade, multinational firms have either exited or signaled their intention to leave the country, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton warns that such taxes often backfire, prompting the wealthy to hoard assets, evade taxes, or relocate to friendlier jurisdictions.
Over the past eight years, 39 African countries significantly improved in their visa openness scores, indicating substantial progress in facilitating easy travel among the affected nations.
Several African countries have a similar habit of protectionism, especially the act of restricting imports in favour of local products. But this is at the detriment of consumers who could have enjoyed lower prices of goods.
Nigeria’s education minister is asking the country’s future to wait.
One way to look at the TFTA is that it complements rather than duplicates AfCFTA efforts. This strategic approach recognises regional economic communities as building blocks for continental integration.
Nigeria’s current economic predicament is an imminent stopover in its unfree economy.
Several cases of mismanagement of funds and corruption are affecting the education sector, particularly in the southwest of Nigeria.
Thousands of Nigerian civil servants are put to the test of eternal misery when their state governors have not shown proper commitment to pay the 70,000 approved minimum wage.
As the Dangote Refinery rolls out refined petroleum, NNPC recognises the potential of private sector efficiency and moves to sell two of its four refineries.
The same day President Tinubu vowed to promote the rule of law, the Department of State Service (DSS) arrested and detained Adejuwon Soyinka, the West African regional editor of Conversation Africa.
With privatisation, Nigeria could turn its struggling teaching hospitals around.
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