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Early morning, January 3rd, 2026. While most of the world slept, US military forces executed what President Donald Trump would later describe as “one of the most stunning displays of American military might since World War II.” The target was Venezuela’s Fuerte Tiuna military complex. The objective was singular; the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. […]

Davos is not where decisions are made. It is where intent is revealed. I think that distinction mattered more than ever this year, given the theme – “The Spirit of Dialogue”. The Irony! The 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) felt less like a marketplace of ideas and more like a marketplace of leverage. Conversations were […]

Nigeria spent nearly ₦13 trillion servicing debt last year. Our pension funds hold twice that amount, much of it tied up in the same debt instruments creating the burden. Every day, over ₦26 trillion of pension assets moves silently through our financial system, shaping balance sheets, influencing markets, and signalling our collective appetite for risk […]

For years, Nigeria has described gas as its “transition fuel” and the centrepiece of its Decade of Gas agenda. Yet progress has often been uneven projects delayed, contracts stalled, and supply shortfalls undermining the country’s ambitions. That’s why the announcement that NLNG has signed 20-year Gas Supply Agreements (GSAs) with six upstream producers feels like […]

How Nigeria’s energy giant can turn sceptics into shareholders with world-class capital markets storytelling This piece was initially triggered by the now-withdrawn March 2025 NNPCL press release on a planned IPO. Incidentally then came the announcement on April 1, 2025, of a new board of directors at NNPCL, but that’s not the focus of this […]