Nigeria’s sugar tax promised health gains and development funding but delivered only higher prices and fading public trust.
Niger state’s moves to regulate the media and control sermons are raising fears of growing censorship.
FinAR report reveals a steady six-year decline in political freedom across Africa.
The resignation of Geoffrey Nnaji after Premium Times’s forgery exposé has raised hard questions about Nigeria’s institutions and whether the law will act on clear evidence of criminality.
In Zambia, Soweto Market in Lusaka demonstrates how free trade, resilience, and trust actively drive economic survival despite poor infrastructure and weak institutions.
Nigeria’s shea ban could boost local production, but weak capacity and finance threaten its impact.
The Federal Government suspended the four percent customs levy after backlash over its impact on trade, competitiveness, and inflation.
Red Sea tensions put the Horn of Africa on the edge of a new conflict.
Government spending, whether through taxation, borrowing, or printing money, never creates wealth but merely redistributes or destroys it.
The new customs levy could propel a price surge in consumer goods.
Ekpa warned that without effective enforcement of the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of human rights risk remaining symbolic across Africa.
Delayed judgments in South Africa, with over 220 judgments pending for more than six months, are eroding public trust in the judiciary and raising urgent calls for judicial reform.
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