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		<title>Is Investing for Me? Rethinking Who the Stock Market is Actually Built For</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Robinson Kolawole &#8220;Investing is not for someone like me.&#8221; This is a very common opinion held by millions of eligible Nigerians who have never explored the stock market, thanks to a misconception in the Nigerian personal finance space that has lingered for far too long. The belief usually stems from somewhere honest. Financial [&#8230;]
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		<title>Tinubu&#8217;s Biggest Opponent is Not Obi or Atiku&#8230; It&#8217;s Tinubu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Moses Braimah &#8220;A government that spends more time explaining the  opposition than explaining its achievements may already know where its real problem lies.&#8221; Nigeria is a fascinating country.  Explain it to someone and watch them nod eagerly, only for them to confess moments later: “I still don’t understand.” If you claim to fully [&#8230;]
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		<title>The Founder Effect: How Long-Term Industrial Builders Create Enduring Shareholder Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; By DAVID OPUTAH Capital markets have an interesting way of separating excitement from excellence. Excitement often accompanies the launch of a new company, a major expansion, or a highly anticipated market debut. It is fueled by projections, media attention and investor optimism. Excellence, however, reveals itself only over time. It is measured not [&#8230;]
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		<title>What Nigeria’s Floundering Anti-Terror Campaign Can Learn from Ukraine’s Robot War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Elvis Eromosele For over a decade, Nigeria has been locked in a gruelling war of attrition. From the blood-soaked plains of the Northeast, where Boko Haram and ISWAP splinter cells mutate, to the dense forests of the Northwest, Middle Belt and South West, where ruthless bandit cartels execute mass kidnappings with impunity, the nation [&#8230;]
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		<title>Fixing the Real Problem with Nigeria’s SIM Recycling System</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ By Elvis Eromosele Nigeria’s push to strengthen digital trust has taken a new turn as the House of Representatives urges the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to extend the SIM reassignment window to 18 months. At first glance, the proposal appears straightforward: give more time before inactive numbers are recycled to reduce fraud, identity theft, and [&#8230;]
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		<title>FCCPC and Digital Theft: Time to Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Segun Adediran For those who studied Economics at the Ordinary Level in the 1970s, the name O.A. Lawal likely rings a bell. His seminal work, O&#8217; Level Economics of West Africa, outlines the four pillars of production—land, labour, capital, and enterprise—as the essential resources for creating value. Centuries earlier, in 1776, Adam Smith published [&#8230;]
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		<title>Middle-East Crisis: How Tinubu&#8217;s Policy of Naira-for-Crude Guarantees Supply Security in Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Temitope Ajayi President Bola Tinubu demonstrated foresight in July 2024, when he approved the use of the naira as the payment currency for crude oil supplied by the NNPC to the Dangote Refinery. Since the launch of the naira-for-crude initiative on October 1, 2024, Nigeria has experienced a strategic breakthrough amid the ongoing economic [&#8230;]
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		<title>Railway Infrastructure is One of the Solutions to Africa’s Trade Expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Caroline Trefault Intermodal Africa Manager at MSC As Africa’s economies continue to diversify and grow at around 4% year-on-year on average, moving goods across the continent is becoming more complex, time-sensitive, and strategically important. Ports are essential gateways for international trade, but the effectiveness of Africa’s trade systems is ultimately determined inland, by how [&#8230;]
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		<title>Nigeria: Illicit Drugs and the Challenge of Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Christiana Daniel ‎Nigeria’s fight against illicit drugs has intensified in ways that are impossible to ignore. Across the country, seizures have increased, trafficking routes have been disrupted, and criminal networks have come under sustained pressure. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has been at the centre of this effort, expanding its operational reach and [&#8230;]
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		<title>Kano Massacre: The Menace of Hard Drugs, Intervention Campaign by NDLEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mahmud Isa Yola On the noon of Saturday, I sat in the cavernous Conference Hall of the National Mosque in Abuja, lost in a sea of faces, listening with keen interest as my boss, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, connected the dots between insecurity and drug abuse during a [&#8230;]
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		<title>Are Regulators Signalling a New Era of Accountability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Elvis Eromosele For years, Nigerian consumers have complained, sometimes loudly, sometimes helplessly, about poor services. Airlines, telecom operators and banks were always the biggest culprits. In fact, flight delays became routine, dropped calls almost normal, and unexplained bank charges a recurring irritation. What often followed were apologies, excuses and the almost obligatory regulatory silence. [&#8230;]
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		<title>OPay &#8211; From Payment Platform to Lifestyle Ecosystem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Moses Braimah Out of curiosity, I decided to spend some time today exploring the @OPay app &#8211; not just for its regular transfers or bill payments that most of us are familiar with, but to see beyond the obvious. Frankly, I was flummoxed, flabbergasted and totally astonished. The people behind this platform have gone [&#8230;]
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		<title>Dangote and the Nigeria Refinery Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Beyond the Monopoly Myths By Moses Braimah When the Dangote Refinery began operations just over a year ago, Nigerians saw it as the dawn of a new industrial age. After four decades of dependence on imported petroleum products, fuel subsidies, and the inefficiencies of state-owned refineries, the privately built $20 billion complex symbolised hope. [&#8230;]
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		<title>The Trouble with Nigeria’s Healthcare System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D The quality of a country’s healthcare system is a mirror image of its leaders’ commitment to citizens’ health.  Countries like Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland are among the world’s top countries with best healthcare for citizens, driven majorly by robust funding and well-structured policy programme. Leaders in these countries do [&#8230;]
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		<title>When Transparency Becomes Luxury: INEC and ₦1.5bn FOI Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Chike Walter Duru When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently demanded a staggering ₦1.5 billion from a law firm for access to the national register of voters and polling units, many Nigerians were left bewildered. The request was made under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 &#8211; a law designed to make [&#8230;]
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