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Nigeria imports trillions of naira in machinery, chemicals, food and manufactured goods. FridayPosts ranks 10 industries where realistic local production could replace imports, create…
Nigeria wants major state-linked enterprises such as NNPC and NLNG on the stock market. We explain listing versus privatisation, retail ownership, transparency, valuation and how sale…
Nigeria says ten factories producing priority health products have been commissioned. More local production can improve medicine security, but cheaper prices depend on APIs, energy, fi…
Nigeria’s state-owned refineries have absorbed years of rehabilitation spending without reliable output. We examine the case for privatisation, the risks of a rushed sale and the alter…
Nigeria used $1.19bn in foreign exchange for food imports in H1 2026. The problem goes beyond farm output to insecurity, yields, storage, processing, logistics and industrial supply ch…
About three in four Nigerian children lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. Girls face additional barriers in many poor and northern communities. Here is what the learning crisis re…
Labour wants fresh wage action as food, transport, energy and housing costs erode incomes. The real issue is how much purchasing power Nigerian workers have lost since the ₦70,000 mini…
Nigeria’s headline inflation fell to 14.63% in September 2026, but energy prices jumped and food inflation remained high. Here is why improving macro data can still feel painful to hou…
Nigeria plans roughly ₦5.75tn in Q4 2026 FGN bond offers. The figure is gross issuance, not automatically net new debt. Here is how to judge affordability, debt service and fiscal risk.
Nigeria’s grid supply plunged to about 675MW during a major disturbance on 19 October 2026. The deeper issue is why plant outages, weak reserves and transmission constraints can still…
Nigeria has hundreds of universities, patents, research grants and technology-transfer offices, yet relatively few visible spin-outs. FridayPosts examines the missing bridge from resea…
FridayPosts ranks Nigeria's ten most investment-ready industries using market size, growth, infrastructure, policy, export potential, profitability and risk rather than hype alone.
Agbara Nla: The Return grossed about ₦170.6m in its opening frame. The bigger story is how a church-distributed film tradition is becoming a mainstream cinema business.
Uber left Nigeria after 12 years. The bigger lesson is that population is potential demand, not effective demand. Purchasing power, costs, currency, regulation and competition decide p…
Childbirth costs vary sharply across Nigeria. Public normal delivery may cost tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands of naira, while private C-sections can reach or exceed ₦1m…
Nigeria climbed from 12th to eighth in Bloomberg Economics' 2026 Africa investment-risk ranking. But capital inflows remain heavily portfolio-led. FridayPosts tests the real investment…
NNPC's 2025 accounts show about ₦8.25tn in outstanding obligations across Project Gazelle, Leopard and Leopard II, backed by future crude. FridayPosts explains what that means.
INEC says nine of 14 election milestones are complete, the voter register is above 103 million and 57,000 new BVAS devices have been acquired. FridayPosts tests the remaining risks.